Projects MAS DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Emilie Seguin – The Heritage of Pearls
What if jewelry was a storyteller? Jewelry has always embodied a narrative. It highlights places, events or important moments of life. This project reveals my heritage, a family tradition of celebrating a lineage of women: Eighteen pearls for your eighteenth birthday. How does the pearl necklace evolve from one generation to another? How can I pay homage to the existing while pushing the idea of the necklace further? Composing with the old allowed me to create something new. The result is this "fossilization" of the jewel that made such an impression on me. The embossed metal reveals an abstraction of the pearl, evoking its history, its possibilities, its evolution...
- Students
- Emilie Seguin
