The new fine jewelry and the refined thoughts of Charlotte Dauphin de la Rochefoucauld ♦ ︎
High jewelery with blazon. The new jewelery series created by Charlotte Dauphin de la Rochefoucauld, descendant of one of the noblest French families, is composed of two sets: Paraboles, which is an evolution of the iconic fluid structures of the Maison Dauphin, and Monuments, which finds its own roots in the most architectural collections of the jewelery brand. Among other things, the novelties also represent an important anniversary, because they celebrate the fifth of the Maison’s birth. The jewels were admired in the heart of the eighth arrondissement of Paris, through a set designed by Félix de Montesquiou and photographed by Paolo Roversi.
I wanted to display my work in this personal, intimate space that is a family house and create a conversation between the creations and the space. Like a mise en abyme, a vast mirror in which we would be enclosed, trapped, and see ourselves. I see my creations as mirrors of the self. So is a monument, the intimate space of a house. “Form is the essence brought to the surface” says Victor Hugo. The mirror may be a surface, an in-between space between the inner and the outside worlds. Two worlds that can never meet and that language in all its forms desperately tries to reconcile.
Charlotte Dauphin de la Rochefoucauld
The conceptual starting point of the collection is rather refined: it is based on visual oxymorons. That is with the juxtaposition of opposites (an oxymoron is, for example, deafening silence). In this case, instead, it means merging tradition and modernity, peace and movement. Gold has a particular processing, treated with gray rhodium and combined with white or fancy diamonds. The lines, interpreted with long sequences of diamonds, can sway in space, or occupy a surface in an orderly geometry. Besides the diamonds there are also sapphires or emeralds. Some colored stones are a point of perspective for the diamond threads, while in other cases they constitute the starting point for the architecture of the jewel.
