LESLIE BARON

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Designer biography:

Leslie Baron - Art Jeweller

I graduated from Ensaama Olivier de Serre and Ecole Boulle in metal craft and jewellery, artistics crafts schools in Paris. After being a prototypist in luxury companies for 10 years, i Have been an Independent art jeweller since 2017. Since 2019, I have been a founding member of La Coterie in Strasbourg, France. A creation place made up of 4 craftswomen dedicated to the high-end practice of artistic crafts. In addition I have been sharing my know-how during initiation workshops to Jewellery since 2020. I am also teaching jewellery courses for beginners in my workshop since 2021.

In June 2022 I was rewarded as Winner of the Grand-Est region of the Atelier de France creation competition. I exclusively produce jewellery collections in small series, unique pieces and custom-made creations in silver, gold and precious stones and rustic materials. I use traditional jewellery techniques such as casting, shaping, soldering, setting...

Collection concept:

My work consists in two major collections : Astre and Gravité

I am unveiling now “Comètes” a limited series part of the GRAVITÉ collection, made of essential and synthetic forms.

COMETS: A STARRY UNIVERSE, THE CELESTIAL VAULT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS in 925 silver, rough diamonds and ruby crystals. Inspired by the sky iconography, the celestial vault and space, I have been developing this year a limited series of 21 “Comets” pieces. On each, a drawn nebulous and lunar pattern. Like comets, diamonds and rubis are the meteors spinning on the jewelry pieces. Gems are the symbol of the connection between heaven and earth. The infinitely large and the infinitely small are linked and form a whole. Each jewel is unique, designed according to the raw stone and the original texture of the molten silver. Set with rough diamonds and chiseled by hand. To build a series of similar and unique pieces at the same time, I set up several stages of realization: the manufacture of the model, a clear, tense form added to a rugged silver cast, textured with a skin very marked and at the end, the drawing of the pattern made at the time of the placement of the stones and the carving. It is a game, a search for form between precision and accident, the surprise of the random.

Leslie Baron (France)

LESLIE BARON

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