Interview

• How do you mix tradition and innovation in your work?

  Contemporary jewellery represents an innovative approach to a craft that originated in ancient times: using techniques that are thousands of years old to create modern objects which are relevant to today's public. This way, our profession continues to exist in its traditional form.

• What does the lost wax casting technique involve?

  This technique involves the modelling of the jewellery pieces in wax at first in order to be later cast in silver or gold, or sometimes bronze. The wax disappears during the casting process (it is lost) and all we get in the end is the metal object, which we must then brush and polish.

• What don't people always realise about your work?

  They are not usually aware that, for the most part, the contemporary jewellery studio does not differ much from the jewellery workshop of the Middle Ages. The tools are almost the same, except that today some of them run on electricity.

• How would you define what you do?

  We like to think we make wearable stories. It is the story of the craft that reaches the person wearing our pieces. We create them with care and attention and this approach invests them with a positive vibe. We add a spiritual, human dimension to the objects we make.