From November 27 to 30, 2009, ten creative jewelers will meet in Paris to showcase their art through forty unique windows, to make you dizzy or furious for Christmas gifts.
This event is for lovers of unique and exceptional jewelry and for those who are passionate about the art of jewelry.
The exhibition takes place in a Parisian place known for its attachment to art and literature: the starred hotel Le Mathurin, directed by Didier Moinel Delalande.
In a showcase, organized in a succession of small rooms, visitors can admire rings, necklaces and other necklaces, cufflinks and pieces set with fine and precious stones.
Children have not been forgotten because accessories and bracelets are also intended for them.
Unique and original in order to reveal all the beauty of an art in its own right, the creations revisit the classicism of certain jewels while offering us pieces full of creativity, color and design. These jewelers decipher for us, below, each in their own way, their interpretation of their art.
Yael Sonia
Yael Sonai Spinning Wheel TP
Born in Boston, Yael Sonia studied goldsmithing and jewelry at Parsons School of Design in New York and has lived and traveled in several countries.
Each piece of Yael’s jewelry is unique, daring and refined. Her creations are timeless but refer to eternity and have brought her public acclaim and several international awards.
Inspired by the movement of children’s toys, Yael has created the « Perpetual Motion » collection. These jewels made of gold 750 and fine stones are composed of rolling spheres, swinging clocks, spinning tops and flying kites: the jewels come to life and continue to exist through time. « Jewelry lives forever, » the designer tells us. Some of her jewelry is multi-purpose. For Yael, jewelry can be interactive. You can add elements to the pendants, wear some rings as pendants…
From her stays in Brazil, the designer has retained a taste for olorized stones that she has begun to incorporate into her jewelry. His « Rock » collection multiplies the use of these beautiful Brazilian stones. This collection was also inspired by the idea of the engagement ring in which some women are more attached to the size of the stone than to the symbolism of the ring itself. The « Rock » collection puts the stone in the forefront with rough and massive cuts, a slightly ironic vision of the engagement ring.
Sophie Fruit – Menorqua
Sophie Fruit – Menorqua
Born near Brussels, Sophie started her professional career in communication. Very quickly caught up by her passion for stones and jewelry, she came to study gemology in Paris and trained for 9 years in the purchase of stones and diamonds at the greatest jewelers of the Place Vendôme. Deciding to follow her own path, she has been making unique jewelry for special orders since 2003 under her brand name Menorqua and creates collections inspired by nature and the beauty of stones. She reappropriates the poison ring by offering us a new, more modern version that she calls a secret ring. Her rings adorned with frogs or other animals have a small secret place: « You just have to open the little compartment, put your wish inside and close it » explains the designer.
As for the magnificent rubellite calcedoine ring, it is also « a statue that can be placed on a table » she reminds us.
Sophie Fruit produces in small quantities but each piece of jewelry is an exceptional gift.
Eliane D.S
Eliane DS ring Flocons Noir
www.eliane-ds.com
Ten years of training in Gemology and Creation and a passion for stones lead Eliane D.S. irresistibly to jewelry design. These creations are unique, transformable and even poetic pieces that perfectly highlight the personality of a refined woman.
Eliane DS likes to innovate. She has registered the patent of some models, in particular her Infernal ring and her Satellites. It is a beautiful ring of white, yellow or pink gold on which are fixed small interchangeable precious elements in the shape of hearts or others (fine stones, animals, patches, etc.).
His approach is particular. She first falls in love with a stone and then the jewel falls into place. These jewels are for certain excessively worked as for the Black Flakes ring where snowflakes with black diamonds are entangled around a majestic Onyx. The work of a goldsmith…
Daniela Baumgartner
Daniela Baumgartner Diamond Silk
www.dianela-baumgartner.com
Born in German-speaking Switzerland, with a degree in gemology and speaking four languages, Daniela Baumgartner moved to Paris in the 1980s to study jewelry. Awarded several times, her creations have seduced the major international jewelry houses for which she has designed exclusive lines and models. Revisiting classism, her creations preserve the codes of jewelry while bringing a fresh and innovative eye in unique pieces made on demand like her long and fluid necklaces or the use of a flexible rush. These pieces are sober while being very feminine.
The designer met a woman working in trimmings who liked her work. Dianela quickly thought about how she could incorporate this young woman’s work into her collections. From this reflection were born several long necklaces like the Silk Diamond, adjustable that can be tied flush or wider or the pearl necklace strongly revisited. « The necklace reveals very feminine movements in women, » says the designer.
Cameo (Olivier Grammatico)
Cameo
Since 1992, installed near the Place Vendôme, Cameo (Olivier Grammatico) proposes, with the help of his collaborator, a work of creation with his private customers and collaborates with some great houses of Parisian high jewelry.
His creations are declined around three themes:
Lagoon color with pieces using aquamarine associated with coral red, lagoon blue jewelry. Garden of Eden on the animal and floral theme such as its large rings in the form of mysterious flowers or its charming snakes. And finally a more classic line with mixed jewelry, some of which have Latin inscriptions.
He also created a line of gris-gris and lucky charms based on the theme of the four-leaf clover and the number XIII.
Ravior (Ravi Jehtsan)
Ravi – Transdiama
Descendant of a long line of jewelers, Ravi Jehtsan makes exceptional pieces. Through the exploration of cultures and the combination of different materials, the designer offers an aesthetic jewelry very inspired by Mauritius: coral jewelry, jewelry symbol om… His specialty: the fusion of cultures and the use of noble materials such as gold, titanium, silver, ebony, leather, among others.
These slices of rough diamond from the Transdiama collection remind us of the wave caused by a stone thrown into water. Yes, these jewels made locally in Mauritius offer us to keep with us what is precious, important. Like these amphora pendants adorned with diamonds containing a little sea water and micro-shells found in the sand.
For Ravi, it’s important to be alone with a jewel, that’s how you can feel it and go to meet it.
Jean Christophe
Jean Christophe
Jean Christophe Fouchier, who brilliantly distinguished himself in the workshops of Poiray, Chaumet and Cartier a few years ago, owns two Parisian boutiques, one of which is exclusively devoted to men’s jewelry. Jean-Christophe, who decided to launch his own brand in 1996, quickly acquired a certain renown and his creations were appreciated. The collections are growing with each season, and the jewelry is becoming more original.
These pieces highlight stones of character, which reveal an ideal marriage of colors and unusual shapes, sparkles and contrasts of brilliance and polish. Its asset, to propose a new vision of the jewel for man, easy to wear, light while using noble materials through the collection « Galuchat », rings, bracelets and cufflinks adorned with gold and covered with tinted stingray: Black, orange, green, pink.
Her line of rings for women « Mirrors » as well as the collection « Hearts » propose a vision out of the beaten track of the feminine jewel. Finally, the Jean Christophe brand also offers a children’s line: « Petit Mec-Ano », « P’tit garçon » and « P’tite Fille ». White or yellow gold pieces with or without diamond mounted on a cord or chain.
UMANE
UMANE
A duo of women jewelers, Valérie Brun and Maé Jund created Umane Paris in 2000, a name that refers to the origins of the material. These designers work on instinct and rely on their own jewelry workshop, which has been supplying the biggest names in the business for nearly 18 years.
Umane Paris jewels have their own personalities and offer chains of giant oval links in white gold for curb chains of a new era or necklaces blackened with huge pieces of onyx starred with diamonds. Ebony, pearls, amazonite, rock crystal, noer wood, the material imposes itself for unique and contemporary pieces such as the Toi et moi collection. Volumes, materials, contrasts (matte and shiny, precious and semi-precious stones), colors, black, white … everything is there.
Patrice Fabre
Patrice Fabre Lotus
A former young designer and trend-setter for De Beers in the early 1980s, Patrice Fabre has made a name for himself in the closed world of jewelry. His work is based on the meeting of different materials creating pure forms, well anchored in contemporary jewelry.
In 1986, he launched his Béton Armé and Diamant line, a very contemporary collection combining the most raw material with noble materials. And in 1984 he created his first line of fine jewelry. Awarded several times, he opened his Parisian boutique in 1998.
In 2005, Patrice Fabre created a men’s collection « Telucric » based on the Raw Diamond. The diamond, until now very little used for men, becomes in its raw state the emblematic stone of this collection. The rubber bracelet with its white gold plate encrusted with rough diamonds is an immediate success. He named this line « Teluric ».
Hélène Courtaigne Delalande
Hélène Courtaigne Delallande
In 1990, Helegne Courtaigne Delalande left the world of advertising to explore a new path that she had long been passionate about: jewelry design. She quickly took her first steps in jewelry while studying for a gemologist diploma at the I.N.G. in Paris. Her style quickly became more refined and the designer was chosen by De Beers to create one of the rings in the « Trilogy » series. She will also create the 2003 Jasmine Prize trophy for the French Perfume Committee and will design the Issima line for Guerlain.
Mixing matte and shiny gold, Hélène puts the metal at the heart of the jewel and uses little exploited gems (spessartites, tsavorites, iolites, morganites, rubelites, tanzanites).
This exhibition allows us to admire all the know-how of creators, admirable craftsmen who magnify each jewel for our greatest pleasure. Do not hesitate to contact us!
Hotel Le Mathurin
43 rue des Mathurins
75008 Paris
Marie-Odile Radom