You upload · Opening frame: film or wide editorial — a couture suite worn, soft light
Couture Jewellery
Our designs, cut to your measure.
Cut to the wearer
You upload · Packshot: the finished couture suite on pale silk
You upload · Macro: setting detail, hand-foiled edgeCouture sits between the vault and the everyday — our house designs, made to your measure. The setting, the stones, the drop and the length are decided with you, then cut in our atelier.
The design begins from a piece the house already knows, then moves to the wearer: the drop is set against her own neckline, the length against her own collarbone, the setting chosen for the stones she brings or the stones we find for her. Nothing is standard except the standard of the making.
You upload · Wide frame: neckline & ear in airy light — runs full widthFrom sketch to hand
You upload · The atelier bench, hands at work
You upload · Loose stones laid out for selectionA conversation at the Vault, a hand sketch and stone selection, a wax or silver trial, then the finished piece — hallmarked, certified, and fitted before it leaves us.
Four steps, and the wearer is present at each. The sketch is drawn by hand and altered in front of her; the stones are laid on a tray and chosen one by one; the trial piece is worn before a single stone is set; the finished jewel is fitted, adjusted and hallmarked in the room. Eight to fourteen weeks, most of it spent waiting for the right stone.
You upload · Wide frame: the private fitting room at The Vault — runs full width