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Princely Maison Dauphin

Published on July 28, 2021

Maison Dauphin, an aristocratic Parisian Maison in which the essence of geometry reigns ♦ ︎
François VI de la Rochefoucauld, Prince of Marsillac (1613-1680), was a writer, philosopher and creator of aphorisms. The noble French lived the court intrigues for King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anna of Austria, and Duke of Buckingham: if you have read the Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas you know what it is. A descendant of the famous prince, Charlotte Dauphin de la Rochefoucauld, has instead decided to go another way, that of modern jewelery design. In 2015 she founded Maison Dauphine, based in the center of Paris.

Despite the aristocratic origins of his family, Charlotte Dauphin’s style is by no means related to tradition. Instead, she defines it as “a process of deconstruction and interpretation of reality”. Abstraction, geometry, expressionism of form, she explains, contribute to the creation of new visual expressions. This visual poem, very essential, very design, very snob (it could only be that way), is embodied in jewelry where the sought-after geometry is the true wealth. A definition that could be an aphorism of François VI de la Rochefoucauld.

Anello in oro bianco 18 carati e diamante

Anello della collezione Volume in oro bianco e rosa

Orecchini in oro bianco 18 carati e diamanti

Orecchini in oro rosa 18 carati e diamanti

Dauphin’s high conceptual jewelery

Published on July 12, 2019

alta gioielleria

Parabole, white gold, white diamonds and emeralds brooch

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

Modella con spilla e orecchino di alta gioielleria Dauphin

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.

Blue gold, black diamonds and round white diamonds earrings

Blue gold, black diamonds, and emerald-cut diamond ring

White gold, white diamonds, sapphire ring

GREY RHODIUM WHITE CHAMPAGNE DIAMONDS — Grey rhodium and white & champagne diamonds ring

White gold and white diamonds earring by Dauphin

Parabole, white gold, white diamonds and emeralds earrings

Dauphin, royal collection

Published on May 22, 2015

Showroom

She debuted last year with her jewelry brand Dauphin, taking into the French scenery a novelty in the minimalist trend. In fact, the bracelets by Charlotte Dauphin de la Rochefoucauld, granddaughter of Jacques Dauphin, a pioneer in advertising and related to one of the noblest families of France, are shaped like a cage that wraps the wrist with something regal. The bars are curved, take up space and poking out. But they lookfree-flying, even in the version in blue gold, a shade nearly black enhanced by dark diamonds. A hue of ink applied on 18K gold, with the idea to make it like a neutral color that really liked to insiders. Fascinated by the geometry and by abstraction, the young designer, with a showroom in Place Vendôme in Paris, comes back this year with the collection II, lines more structured, architectural definitely paved with diamonds positioned to handle the planes of light , a little as the volumes arranged asymmetrically in new skyscrapers signed by superstars. Return the blue, but it is lighter, and also the black lacquered with the three colors of gold. Here pictures and prices. Matilde de Bounvilles

Collezione II, anello aperto in oro rosa e pavé di diamanti. Prezzo: 9 mila euro

Collezione II, anello in oro rosa e file di diamanti.Prezzo: 9 200 euro

Collezione II, anello aperto in oro rosa e file di diamanti. Prezzo: 5 mila euro

Collezione II, anello in oro rosa e full pavé di diamanti. Prezzo: 14 mila euro

Collezione II, bracciale in oro rosa e file di diamanti. Prezzo: 36 mila euro

Bracciale nero — Collezione I, bracciale gabbia in oro rodiato nero e diamanti grigi

Collezione I, bracciale in oro rodiato nero con una fila di diamanti laterale

Collezione I, anello in oro rodiato blu inchiostro e diamanti neri

Collezione II, anello in oro rodiato blu e full pavé di diamanti neri. Prezzo: 7.700 euro