If by chance you landed on the island of Ré, off the French Atlantic coast, you will find a jewelry designer who was born and works there: Mathilde Danglade. It is far away from the famous Parisian boutiques, but she agreed. She chose to stay away from the crowds of the french capital. She is one of those who has always had the desire to grapple with the jewelry, but before she was involved in advertising and publishing. Then, she changed her life. She spent several years in Hong Kong, where she honed notions of gemology. Returned to France in 2007, she opened M29, her first concept store in Saint Martin, on the island of Ré. She has also launched its first jewelery collection. In 2012, she opened a second concept store, M32, in the chic district of Brussels, near Place Brugmann. Her works are very focused on the stones, which wants to enhance the natural beauty: quartz, tourmaline, labradorite, agates, black onyx, white moonstone, pink opal and lapis lazuli, almost always in generous sizes. Despite her secluded location, now her pieces are distributed in more than one hundred stores around the world, from Tokyo to Paris, from Switzerland to the United States. Not bad to be started from a small island. Margherita Donato
