Maison Auclert, the charm of the past reinvented for the future ♦
From the old one borns the new, from the past comes the present, from the tradition comes the avant-garde. Following these vaguely zen precepts, the French designer Marc Auclert offers contemporary jewelry made up of old elements. Rectangles, triangles and gold rims are assembled as a sculpture, for example, using a pair of typical earrings in southern India. Those who are so original jewels have, in fact, a very ancient origin, dating back to the Renaissance.
During that period, the concept of using stones, lacquers, porcelains, new media to create unusual objects was born, for the pleasure of a sophisticated clientele, refined taste. Maybe to exhibit in a Wunderkammern, the rooms of the wonders that they liked so much in that historic period. These objects created by silversmiths or craftsmen in the interior are today the model that inspires Maison Auclert’s work. And it does it with a strict philosophy: it uses antique elements without making any modifications. In short, no permanent glue or drilling for stones and metals that are reinterpreted to create a jewelery that is reductive define as unique. Marc Auclert, on the other hand, knows well the value of the historical legacy of objects: he is a grandson of an antiquarian and he has loved contact with ancient jewels and unusual objects. His proposal is a testimony to that. Rudy Serra
