François Azambourg - Le fil, le marteau et l’enclume

This set of jewels results from a research and experiment François Azambourg conducted on metal between August and October 2018.

It is not François Azambourg’s first attempt at jewelry making. In 2014, he designed a penne necklace and ringwithamore conceptual approach as a humoristic echo to the pasta necklace children make for their mother. And in 2015, he designed a “propeller ring”.

For this new series of jewels, the designer gave himself precise constraints beforehand: creating a surface with only metal, copper, silver and brass wires.

Unpretentious design is what makes the originality of this project, which gathers, congregates and converges metal wires and plays on ductility . With simple gestures and only a few tools- a hammer and an anvil clamp- the wires thus gathered and tapped capture forms that are like “still shots”, with infinite possibilities… Each creation becomes the unique edition of a non-reproducible ornament. 

Both a space of freedom and a field of experimentation, these creations are pieces of jewelry as much as small-scale sculptures. This series represents an artistic accomplishment in the designer’s work.

 François Azambourg created a series of yellow gold, white gold and palladium-plated copper jewels exhibited from October 12 to 21 at Private Choice.