Céline is a German-French jeweler living in Tuscany, Arezzo since 2009. Her love for pearls, stones, and metals started as a kid when she found her mother's treasure box. Her mother was always creative too. At a young age, she started to assemble her own earrings, but this passion was a long-time hobby only, put aside during her communication studies in Berlin. It was later awakened when she started to attend some goldsmith workshops in Florence and slowly turned her passion into a constant obsession: "When I first hit the bench in 2016, it felt like enlightenment: this is what I was missing, this is what I wanted to do in every second of my free time. In the beginning, I made pieces just for myself, my dearest friends, and family. But I could not stop creating, and now I want to offer my jewelry to everyone who shares the same idea of nature, craftsmanship, and effortless beauty."
Céline enjoyed and still enjoys all her summers in French Brittany, her mother's birthplace. A childhood spent observing marine life on the wild coast of the Atlantic Ocean, jumping barefoot between rocks, playing with shells and stones, mother of pearl, and shimmering sand on the beach, and finally, nights at the beach, staring at the night sky with her father telling stories about the universe. The region, influenced by Celtic culture and known for its rugged beaches, mystical woods, dolmen stones, the wild Atlantic sea, rain, storms, seafoam, oysters, and thriving nature, left a massive imprint on how she perceives nature and beauty.
The designer most loves creating her pieces by hand, using wax that is then molten in the lost wax technique into metal. Using this technique, she also embraces the cast not set technique as it allows her partly cover the stones with metal and to form the wax with her fingers and finally carving with simple tools. She wants to recreate the feeling of stones and treasures buried int the earth, covered by water or sand.
3 Reasons why using Cubic Zirconia
Most of the rings and all pieces containing stones are made to order. While there may be a few available pieces ready to ship, they are limited to certain sizes. The rest is created specifically for you when you place your order. This approach minimizes overproduction, allowing the artist to focus on fulfilling orders and creating new pieces. Consequently, production and shipping times (see our shipping policy) are longer.
PLEASE NOTE: All made to order pieces may, as they are handmade one by one, vary slightly from the image on the screen. If you have any doubts, we will be happy to send a picture for your approval.
All pieces are handcrafted, and their beauty often lies in their imperfections. The finishing might be intentionally rougher, representing the artist's choice to leave her fingerprint, quite literally at times, in the pieces. This enhances the fact that they are handmade, not machine-made. Some stones may exhibit what appear to be small natural inclusions, a delightful side effect of the cast-not-set technique, occurring randomly and adding to the uniqueness of each piece.
