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What is wonderful is, basically you can start with an idea and then you can make it happen

Royal College of Art Student Union president, 2010

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Inspiration

RealityIdea

Project/Object

Concept

Technique

Using the body as a theatre, I create unexpected links between games, poetry, history, and stories and revisit traditional skills with popular imagery.This blend develops a new reading, allowing each piece to re-veal its poetic and human dimension.I love to create a jewel not only on the body but also in the mind.

What do we really value?

Memory

Affection

Quality

Hand work

Time

Bring from tradition

I put on my camelote

What’s precious?

Magy

TechnologyFactice

Dummy

-I’m putting on my camelote- were my French grand-mother’s words when she was wearing her jewellery - a compet-itive mix between fake and real gold.

In French, Camelote means rubbish,In English Camelot is the idealist city of King Arthur.

The project Camelot’e comes from this mix between fake and genuine, from the value we give to things around us.A knitted acrylic thread is partly covered with sterling silver creating a match between complicated hand work and pre-cious metal.

Camelot’e

-To transform a thread in gold was a real chalange.If the idea was born in London, it's in Pforzheim, Germany, that the realization and the production started.

Awarded by the C.HAFNER GmbH + Co. KG with the RRH prize and scholarship the previous year, the manufactory accepted to host the end of exchange project confection.Together, under the Hochschule electroforming department’s advice, we created a technique to partially electroform a non -conductive material.The very first piece resulting from this technical and human collaboration can still be seen at the Schmuck museum of Pforzheim.

-Even if this project starts as a concept, It slowly brings a real question about what is valuable in life...

As a true eponym, a project that began as an aesthetic question found itself crushed by the materialism of every-day life.The Camelot’e collection is shown on a regular basis at galleries, exhibitions, and internationals fairs. However, even though the project quality is recognized, the real value of jewelry mostly made with thread is still difficult to accept.

As a true eponym, a project that began as an aesthetic question found itself crushed by the materialism of everyday life.The Camelot’e collection is shown on a regular basis at galleries, exhibitions, and internationals fairs. However, even though the project quality is recognized, the real value of jewelry mostly made with thread is still difficult to accept.

1 Anemony, thread and silver, 2010.2 Anemony2, thread and silver, 2011.

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-To tell a good story and tell it well, it is important to think of the staging,i.e. the materials and techniques used, when the story is told through an object.This part is dedicated to this inquiry to create a connection between the form of an object and its meaning.

Learning new techniques, disassembling them, making changes where needed, then putting them back together has always been a great pleasure.Because objects are connected with humans, they bring meaning that has always been a great source of fascination and concern.However, playing with the codes of one culture will not be understandable by or may even be laughable in another.And here, beyond research or defying technicalities, will still be the principal difficulty.rincipal difficulty.

Les Bijoux-As an integral part to the design of the object, this pattern is not merely a decoration of the structure, but constitutes the

structure of the jewel.Using « les bijoux» from Baudelaire, the text becomes a material, a substance, an object, and each verse became a garments.

The JewelsMy darling was naked, and knowing my heart well, She was wearing only her sonorous jewels, Whose opulent display made her look triumphant Like Moorish concubines on their fortunate days.

When it dances and flings its lively, mocking sound, This radiant world of metal and of gems Transports me with delight; I passionately love All things in which sound is mingled with light...

...When it dances and flings its lively, mocking sound, This radiant world of metal and of gems Transports me with delight; I passionately love All things in which sound is mingled with light. Baudelaire-The Flowers of Evil

Copper and Iron, 2008.

Parade

A confrontation of content and form, ‘Parade’ is a succession of 9 rosettes in which the patterns are made out of famous French writings about the nation.(like Voltaire, Rimbaud and Céline).Using the letters as a repetitive pattern, the text becomes a decoration to show off with to all.

The difficulty in those pieces was technical.The best way to design lace made of words while preserving an old fashioned aspect was to use acid to create the pattern.Screen printing was the solution to make it legible.Working with screen printers and engravers was a real uplifting expe-rience.After many tests and a lot of failures, Parade was born

Created for the “National Identity” contest at the gallery of Beatrice Lang, Bern, Switzerland.Winner of RRH European contemporary jewelry contest in 2010.

Silver and brass, 2008.

-Here the material has taken up all importance.

The queen’s necklace was the necklace of Marie Antoinette and hence can be seen as a prelude to the French Revolution.Symbol of excess and decadence, this jewel, never worn, caused the demise of the French Monarchy.

Playing with words, this chocolate abundance can provoke a ‘crise de foie’ which can be translated both as ‘sick by food’ as well as the‘loss of faith’.

Project imagined for the lux decadence and chocolate contest hosted by the Maison du Chocolat, Paris.

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Chocolate, 2008.

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-Iron and silk, hard and soft, cold and warm, strong and delicate bangles were the first try as a mixed materials piece.Reply to the student’s self- -imposed exercise: “what’s a woman?”

Forging technique learned and performed at the Royal College of Art of London, jewelry studio. Hand knitting silk.

Iron and silk, 2009.

Connection

Game

Language

-If I learned something from the Korean drama (mini series of 20 episodes) it is: -Not to be ashamed to be ludicrous; being complicated is not synonymous with wisdom.-Feel free to be colorful.-And the famous 3F rule: (Fresh/Fun & Fashionable).

The difficulty with this intention was to be as straightforward and honest as possible.

A friend, outside of the design fields, once told me she was not able to understand me. That was a cold shower.Contemporary jewelry -making is a very sophisticated world. It is jewelry but not Jewelry, it is art without being Art, design and not Design, craft but not only Craft...well it is complicated.If one does not catch a fly with vinegar, catching attention by being overly highbrow will not work either.Also, with the purpose of being more accessible in mind, I created a series of pieces involving playfulness, joy, colors, interaction, and communication.ncipal difficulty.

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This jewel appeals to the freedom and the game of creating our own ornament patterns through successions of jewel modules.From simplicity to extreme lavishness.From the heart to the body and - who knows? - beyond it.

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Silver, steel and Iron, 2008.

Bagatell

Is a“Mute language” inspired from the beauty spot for a valentin day event.

They were used in the 17th century by the European ar-istocracy, as a way of talking with symbols rather than with words.

Placing it on the face or breast each has different mean-ings.

This beauty spot is a way to signify the intentions and dispositions of lovers.

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Magestic

Passionate

On a wrinkle, plaifull

Romantic/ Gallant

Cheeky

Discreet

Flighty

Sensual/ DevourerCoquettish

Libertine/ greedy

On the bossom: Assasin

Silver and velvet, 2011.

-Blow on the ring and reveal the message.

Messager ring S“Hush”, oxidized brass ring, thermochromic ink, 2008.

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-Or 1852 Km is a distance knitting in the old fashioned Ottoman crochet style.

Each loop tells the handmade journey across the 1 852 Km distance between two People.

Thread, 2011.

-Think and design for Valentine’s Day ‘Chocolate is a girl’s best friend’ is an outrageous, all chocolate, engagement ring, covered by edible gold leaf on the top stone.

The chocolate structure may contain, if wished, a real ring.Chocolate covering technique learned in Paris with a chef of the Mama Shelter.

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Chocolate is a girl’ best friends

Chocolat 2013.

What happened to our dreams

Recall

Dear

DoingBling Bling

Once Upon a timeNew

Magy

Before

Now

Old

For the better part of my childhood, my desire was simple: I wanted to be a fairy tale princess, with all the accessories:the crown, necklaces, dresses, the castle and the magic powers.Time passed by and I didn’t get the job.I geew up, my wills evolves and become more ...Grew up’s ones.However

What happens to our ‘childish’ dreams and what did we create from them?The ‘Once upon a time’ project finds a second life for plastic toys.Recycled, they are partly covered with silver or gold and finely worked by hand.

-Once upon a time is a project re-using treasured objects from childhood.As a kid, we each had this little piece of universe that meant the world to us.As we grow up, those childish wonders are subdued and become more mundane.As those dreams are the foundations of the person we are now, those treasures are the base for a new design more adapted to adulthood.

Picking up any technique, jewelry or others, learned so far,I draw on the initial structure in order to create a design more unique.However, my big concern with this project was the electroforming process.

In order to be as sympathetic as possible to the initial object, generally made from chipped plastic, electroforming was the best way to go.Even if this technique is great- - magical- - like most of jewelry tech-niques, it is not very ecologically friendly.

Cyanide solution as a wastewater has to behandled with caution. And even though my experiences in Germany and London taught me how to process anything from A to Z, a little workshop is not well equipped to deal with chemical components correctly.

So I learned to delegate the conception part to a plating company known for its sensible recycling policy.

Does it require more preparation? Yes, it does.Is it more expensive? Not that much.Was it the more responsible way to go? Definitely.

Once upon a time 2014/15.

Because is not just about conceptit’s about interactionit’s about beautyIt’s about People