Verdura is honored to be featured in From Exile to Avant-Garde: The Life of Princess Natalie Paley, now on view at the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C. The exhibition celebrates the extraordinary life of Princess Natalie Paley—a Russian-born aristocrat, model, and muse whose creative spirit and personal reinvention defined an era of artistic modernity.

Two jewels from the Verdura Museum Collection are included in the presentation, underscoring the long friendship between the Princess and Duke Fulco di Verdura. Paley’s refined taste and artistic sensibility made her one of Verdura’s earliest patrons, inspiring some of his most imaginative creations.

Among the works on view are a 1940 “Ray” Brooch, commissioned by Paley as a remount for her own diamonds, and a 1943 “Dogwood” Brooch, purchased directly from the designer and later immortalized in a Salvador Dalí painting for Vogue. Displayed alongside couture garments, photographs, and film stills, these pieces serve as glittering symbols of Paley’s influence within a transatlantic network of designers, photographers, and patrons — a network that helped define the aesthetics of the 1930s and beyond.

From Exile to Avant-Garde: The Life of Princess Natalie Paley is on view at Hillwood Museum & Gardens, Washington, D.C., through January 5, 2026.