The House
A private jewelry house, built around one belief.
Most jewelry asks you to choose from what exists. LAVAUX begins earlier — with what you mean. The client expresses; the designer designs. That division of labor is the whole house.
The approach
We don’t hand you a catalog of settings and call it custom. You bring a thought — a memory, a person, an occasion, a budget — and the Atelier does what clients should never be asked to do: the design judgment.
What you receive is a small number of considered directions, an honest proposal, and a piece made once, for one person. Technology helps us listen and keep records. It never stands between you and the person making your piece.
The bench
Setting, burnishing, polish — most of the work happens at a scale photographs struggle with, and that is exactly where we spend the time. A piece should pass the simplest test there is: you stop thinking about it when you wear it.
We work with 18k gold and platinum, natural diamond and colored stone, and pearl — chosen per piece, never from a chart. Variance in natural material is not a defect; it is the signature of the real thing.
Materials as language
A stone is not an ingredient on a chart. Two moonstones from the same parcel behave differently — one is sleepy, one is awake. Our work is matching the character of the material to the character of the thought behind the piece.
Read more in Materials as Language.
The relationship
A commission is a conversation, not a transaction. You will always know what is happening with your piece and why — and you will never have to chase it. That is the service standard of the house, and it is personal by design.