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Atelier Ratinaud : émail et or au pays de la porcelaine
Tous deux joailliers, Philippe et Laurence Ratinaud créent des bijoux d’esprit contemporain à la fois précieux et bruts intégrant des matériaux tels que le bois, l’émail ou la porcelaine. Ils ont remporté de prestigieux concours internationaux : lauréats « De Beers Diamonds awards » en 1998 et «Tanzanite Fundation Awards» en 2007.
Gold and gold jewellery
Let's start with a little anecdote showing how gold is an extraordinary metal: Gold atoms have the property of being able to move away from each other while remaining united. This is called ductility. By stretching a gram of gold, you can make...
Meeting with a manufacturer of synthetic sapphires and rubies
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of visiting the DJEVA factory and discovering a large manufacturer of synthetic sapphires and rubies located near Montreux in Switzerland. The factory runs 24 hours a day and employs nearly 80 people. The history of Djeva goes back to the...
The diamond, 3 or 4 essential information
Fascinated by colored stones, I have long forsaken the highly symbolic solitaires until the day I discovered the colored diamond. I was then working in London and the visit of one Exhibition of diamonds organized by the Australian mine of Argyle .
Jade, one of the oldest "gemstones,"
"Jade is the image of goodness, because it's soft to the touch and smooth; of care, because its veins are fine, compact and strong..." Confucius (551-479 BC) Confucius adds that jade is a symbol of sincerity because its brilliance...
In John Moore's workshop
Who better than John Moore could illustrate a Exhibition dedicated to colour? He chose aluminium for its ability to be stained and inked as well as anodised... I met John at a Exhibition in London in 2014. His name had been blown out of my mind...
Esther Assouline, refinement and raw beauty
Born in Morocco and arrived in France at a very young age, Esther Assouline began her artistic career in pastel. It was only later, thanks to the meeting of a young woman, a teacher in a contemporary jewellery school, that she discovered her vocation as a pastel...
The opal or rather the opals...
The opal always captivated me. As a child, I used to gaze greedily at the multicoloured fires emerging from the milky background of my grandmother's ring... And this, long before Dior or the great jewellers of Place Vendôme put it back on stage. This stone so...
Epigenetics? Epi-what else! (Part II)
II. DECRYPTING CREATORS What is epigenetics? After having deciphered the genetic code of many species, including man, scientists realized that they did not yet hold the key to explaining all the mysteries of life, disease, and...