The perfect, irregular design of the Scribbles collection by Solange Azagury-Partridge ♦ ︎
You probably will have tried to write with a pen that has not been used for some time. To do that, before you’ve tried to write with a scribble something on a piece of paper. A random sign, a pen stroke often with a tangled line, a doodles. What if that seemingly insignificant sign was transformed into a jewel? And, more, in a jewel of great design, with precious stones?
The result is the new Scribbles collection by Solange Azagury-Partridge.
The British designer describes herself as “iconoclastic, irreverent and phenomenal”. And, indeed, the idea of combining a seemingly aimless pen line with opals, emeralds, gold and diamonds is quite unusual. But not only: in addition to the composition of the jewelry, Solange is also good in the ability to use the materials in a creative way. A capacity that derives from her professional experiences. Before opening her shop in London in 1995 (but now she is also present in New York), Solange worked with the jeweler Nicky Butler and then with the decorative art dealer Gordon Watson.
Until, in 1987, she decided to design her own engagement ring, with a rough diamond. A very admired jewel, which pushed Solange into her creative adventure as a designer of fine jewelry. From 2001 to 2004 she was also artistic director of Boucheron and her jewels for the French Maison are part of the permanent jewelery collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. They were certainly not scribbles. Cosimo Muzzano
