She has everything of a mischievous heroine in a boudoir, with a doll’s
face and her hair, cut with a cheeky fringe; Lydia Courteille is a
Parisian fairy tale reknown for her cabinet of curiosities where she
pulls the strings, 100% dreamlike.
Through her artistic splendor of jewels celebrating both the light and the dark sides of creation, you meet the stylish, the fanciful and the feminine literary
figures with their vamp-jeweled fingers; women with spirit for these
conversational jewels. It is via her Orphean decoration that Lydia
Courteille cultivates her dreams, like in a greenhouse. An incredible
carnival of vintage jewellery, gleaned through the lifetime of a
passionate antiquarian, fond of the extraordinary, who decides, one day,
to create what she was relentlessly searching for.
Turquoise, opal, jade, coral, ivory – every piece has its color, its
theme. Her creations are like stories to be read. There is the imaginary
of a terrifying bestiary worthy of Jérome Bosch paintings, from which
she diverts the diabolical for the beauty of their forms: snakes, bats,
wasps, frogs or monkeys adorned with diamonds are on familiar terms with
gargantuesque stones, cut to amaze, so much so that the volumes express
themselves largely on one’s hand. Each piece of jewelry is unique and
all the big names of the ‘Place’ neighboring don’t hesitate to inspire
themselves from them, for their “no limit” imagination.