The House
What we keep
This house has no century behind it and will not pretend to one. Most of what a jewellery brand normally offers in place of proof — a founder, an archive, a family, a stone with a name — it does not have. What it has instead is a position on shape, four pieces that hold to it, a set of decisions it can show you, and the measurements to check them against.
The position
We do not correct what nature declined to make regular.
A turquoise comes out of the ground with an outline nobody chose. A freshwater pearl is not a sphere and will not become one. An agate has a shape before anyone has an opinion about it. Most of the trade treats all of this as a starting condition to be fixed: cut it symmetrical, grade it, match it to a partner, and price the result by how completely the original was overcome. We treat the arriving shape as the finished part. The only thing still open for design is the metal, and its job is to reach the stone and stop.
Éveil
Waking, and the skin left behind.
The collection is called ÉVEIL — waking, and the skin that waking leaves behind. A serpent does not mend the skin it has outgrown and does not tear out of it; it leaves the thing whole, still the shape of the animal that was in it, and goes on. That is why a pearl piece sits in a collection of three serpents without needing to be explained. What holds the four together is not the animal. It is the refusal to regularise a form that arrived already finished — and the serpent is simply the clearest picture of that refusal.
Making
How a piece is decided.
Craft talk is usually about workshops, and we are not going to tell you about ours; what you are buying is the house, not its suppliers. What can be shown honestly is the reasoning — the four points at which each piece could have gone the easier way and did not, and what the easier way would have cost.
- The setting opens downward
- On Borrowed Stone the metal opens at the base rather than closing over the top of the turquoise, which keeps all 28 × 15 × 8 mm of the original outline in view. A bezel would have been faster to make and stronger to wear, and it would have covered the one edge that was the reason for choosing this stone over the next one. The piece comes to 5.8 g, on a 45 cm chain that extends to 50.
- Three points, not a bezel
- Red Eye holds its 8 × 6 mm cabochon on three contacts and leaves everything else open. Three is the fewest that will hold a cabochon still. Each point added past that buys security and spends stone, and past a certain count you are not showing a stone any more, you are showing a mount. The band tapers 8.0 mm to 3.0 mm across 23 mm of coil, at 6.5 g.
- One curve, not two parts
- On Orchid Serpent the stem runs as one unbroken line on a 0.7 mm post at 2.4 g each, so the flower and the serpent are a single object rather than two components meeting at a solder joint. Each petal is carved by hand from mother-of-pearl, which is why the grain repeats nowhere — not across one flower, and not between the two earrings. A cast pair would have been identical, and identical was the wrong answer.
- Mirrored, not matched
- Misaligned Pearl is built as mirrored asymmetry rather than a matched pair, from 8–9 mm freshwater pearls that were not round to begin with. Worn together they do not line up; one sits slightly lower and the difference is meant to be visible. That is the point, and it is by a distance the hardest thing on this list to sell. 28 × 11 mm, 3.2 g each, with a 1.5 mm sapphire.
Certainty
The numbers are not marketing.
Every dimension on this site is taken from the maker’s drawings and none of them are rounded for a catalogue. That is deliberate, and it is most of what we can honestly put in the place where an older house would put its history. A young brand asking to be trusted on atmosphere is asking for something it has not earned. A measurement is different: you can hold it against the piece when it arrives, and either it is right or we were wrong.
- Complimentary shipping
- Returns within 30 days
- Presented in a LAVAUX box with a polishing cloth and care card
- Made to order — dispatched within 10 working days
The Atelier
You bring the beginning.
A commission starts with whatever you already have — a thought, a memory, a person, an occasion — and it does not need to arrive precise or well put. A designer reads what you send personally and writes back to you, not to a queue. Nothing is drawn before someone has understood what you are trying to make, which is slower than it could be and is the only part of this we are unwilling to compress.
What we do not do
No countdowns.
There are no sale badges on this site, no countdown timers, no counters telling you how many other people are looking at this, and no invented scarcity of any kind. Part of that is taste and part of it is structure: everything is made to order and dispatched within ten working days, so there is no ageing stock to clear and nothing that needs you to decide tonight. If a piece is right for you it will still be right next week.