Corinna Heller wins Inhorgenta’s Designer of the Year Award. Here are his jewels ♦ ︎

Inhorgenta’s Designer of the Year Award is won by Corinna Heller. It’s one of the prizes of the Monaco-based jewelery event. A prize that Corinna Heller had already grazed two years ago, when she had arrived among the finalists. Corinna founded her little Maison in 1997 and has since designed around 300 jewels. German, Corinne Heller studied and worked in a small town in Baden-Württemberg, Schwäbisch Gmünd.

But the designer was able to build a personal path, with an immediately recognizable style.

Ring Einsteiner [una pietra] in oro bianco 750 e acquamarina, diamanti taglio brillante

Her jewels have simple lines, often accompanied by symbols like the cross and the heart, but combined in a personal way. She use gold, silver, but also large colored gems or diamonds, or large pearls. The shape of the jewels follows precise geometries, but not excessive, with a marked reference to architecture. The designer considers them objects that must be beautiful even when they are not worn, unlike what happens to accessories or clothes in fashion. Lavinia Andorno