CHARLOTTE CHESNAIS

“I don’t just design jewelry. My pieces are not merely earrings, rings,
bracelets or necklaces, I want to create beautiful objects, with lines
that are fluid, dynamic, sharp and disciplined. Unexpected. The
jewelry is a pretext, I could just as well be making chairs, tables or
forks. As a medium, it provides extra support for my ongoing research
into form and use. I like twisting, melting, shaping and constraining.
I like to set the jewelry-object against the contours of the body in the
same way that I like to create pieces that are always calculated to be
on the edge of the classical, the well-balanced, the sculptural. It’s the
way in which I rebel against understood order to constitute a family
of my own archetypes over time. They are objects which are just as
beautiful worn on the body as they are set aside.”