Panel discussion moderated by Katerina Perez (influencer), with David Roux-Fouillet (Head of the Department of Product Design, Jewellery and Accessories, HEAD Geneva), Olivier Bachet (expert), Vivienne Becker (jewellery historian, author) and Alix Dumas (Designer) Sometimes we look at a piece of jewellery and we fall in love with it ...
La classification des gemmes est l’une des problématiques les plus sensibles qui anime actuellement le marché des pierres précieuses. Étrangement, dans un marché parfaitement globalisé et international, aucune standardisation n’existe encore. Chaque laboratoire obéit à ses propres règles et chaque pays possède sa législation sur le sujet.Négociants, experts, et ...
« Rien ne se perd, tout se transforme ». C’est avec cette formule, empruntée au chimiste français Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794), que GemGenève invite cette année une nouvelle génération de talents à exprimer sa créativité. En résonance avec l’urgence climatique et les enjeux environnementaux de notre époque, le thème choisi pour le concours de ...
Speaker: Olivier Bachet Introduction Olivier Bachet has deep knowledge of Cartier. During a fascinating talk held during the November edition of GemGenève, he spoke about the influence that Fabergé had on various jewellery designers – most notably, Cartier. Various elements link Fabergé and Cartier between the end of ...
Speakers: Fondation Fabergé – Dr. Bernard Ivaldi, Alexandra Blin Kourbatoff The art of enamel in Russia is intricately tied to the ancient cultural traditions of the Byzantine Empire, which spread to the territory of Egypt, France, and Italy, becoming the foundation of the technical traditions of enamel art in ...
Speaker: Amanda Triossi This talk will introduce the readers to the stylistic development of the necklace – from its origins to recent times. Through this overview the readers will not only appreciate the extraordinary stylistic development of the necklace, which is linked largely to the changes of fashion, but ...
Speakers: Richa Goyal Sikri, Dharmendra Tank, David Nassi, David Bennett, Tony Brooke Long read When it comes to diamonds, unless you are tracking a diamond from mine to market, it’s impossible to tell where it’s from. Thanks to geological events that occurred millions of years ago, the characteristics of ...
Lecture by Vivienne Becker, jewellery historian and author – Long Read Modernism is a hundred years old, but it is still very much alive and is driving jewellery into a whole new mood of avant-garde conceptual, abstract sophistication. There are distinct parallels between the 1920s and the 2020s, between ...
A panel led by Vivienne Becker, in which Amanda Triossi, Vanessa Cron, and Juliet de la Rochefoucauld discuss jewellery and its value through time. Writing about jewellery and doing it by looking back in time is quite a recent activity. Antique jewellery did not use to be part of ...
