The unlimited imagination of Lorenz Bäumer, from engineering studies to Palce Vendôme ♦
Born in Washington to a French mother and German father, a diplomat, with a career as an engineer behind: Lorenz Bäumer has become instead a great jeweler. If you are delighted to dazzle for jewelry, you must visit in his boutique in Place Vendome, opened near big as Chaumet, Boucheron and Cartier. He, frankly, to the other jewelers has nothing to envy. Indeed, he would stress, with irony, that among the great jewelers “I am the only one alive.” His first creation was a ring-shaped vortex of gold surrounding a diamond, called Wave: he explains that loves the beach and practice surfing.
Lorenz Bäumer has a long career behind him: in 1988 he collaborated with Chanel, for which he created the Camélia collection, with the Matelassée pearl ring, the Coco ring and the Ultra line, the first to use black ceramic for jewelry. For LVMH he then became artistic director of Louis Vuitton Jewelry, with collections such as L’Âme du Voyage, Chain Attraction, Idylle and Lock-it. Until 2015, when he decided to found his own Maison.
But, in addition to the great jewelry Maisons, the eclectic designer has created Rouge G for Guerlain and two perfume bottles in Baccarat crystal, and has also collaborated with Hermès, Cartier, Gucci, Piaget, Bernardaud, Swarovski, Omega, Disney. A work parallel to jewelry that continues to this day: he has created a specific company, Bäumer Design, which works for other luxury Maisons. For all this activity he was appointed Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2004, then Officer in 2009, and Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2010.
His style is well defined. Gold threads that draw complicated but simple arabesques, large colored gemstones, forms also cheerful, not very practiced in fine jewelery, which usually prefers to follow the tradition. Instead Lorenz Bäumer loves the joy, the combination irreverent, as the collection Good Girl / Bad Girl, as rings with revolver set in a cross with diamonds blacks and whites. Or the unusual Garden cubist, with stones that overlap in a kind of precious architecture. If you love luxury, but also the surprise, they are the jewels for you. Here is a selection of jewels.
