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This necklace is part of the series entitled “The

This necklace is part of the series entitled “The Nature of Things,” which began in 2019 and in which Sigurd Bronger draws inspiration from elements found in nature and everyday life, even if these elements do not seem, at first glance, to be obvious choices for jewelry design: they remind us of the fragility of nature and life. Here, water is literally encapsulated in a metal module, like a reliquary, allowing this precious liquid, without which life would never have appeared on Earth, to be passed on to future generations.

Sigurd Bronger | Carrying device for Liquid fluid | Necklace and its wooden case | 2024. Collection of the Robert Mazlo Endowment Fund for art and contemporary art jewellery.

Now on show at the gallery LA Joaillerie par Mazlo, Paris.

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As a true « heretic », Gisbert Stach has chosen to

As a true « heretic », Gisbert Stach has chosen to appropriate this legendary stone, once a symbol of power and prestige, but now associated with a dusty vision of jewellery.
The titles of his works sound like excerpts from the menu of a food-truck: Golden toasts, Schnitzel, Fritz’s snack, Gold fingers, Calamari Fritti and other Sushi unveil as simulacra of the most popular dishes of urban cuisine, often associated with Fast or even Junk food. Transgressive as it may be, Gisbert Stach’s approach does not derogate in any way from the principles of technical mastery and illusionism dear to collectors of Mirabilia. However you will not find any trace of the original amber in his works. The precious material is there literally pulverized and crushed, before being mixed with silicone and sprinkled like bread crumbs on the surface of pins, which invite themselves more to be biten than to be worn. For Gisbert Stach, derision is a way of revisiting our relationship to jewellery as an investment object (emotional, sentimental, material?) and of questioning our value system. Jewellery has indeed always occupied a place of choice among the remarkable works collected and preserved in cabinets of curiosities. But at a time when jewellery is finally freed from the diktat of preciousness and of its value of placement, can one still consider it as a marvel, as a possible heir of artificialia? » – Céline Robin, in an introduction to Gisbert Stach’work on the occasion of the « Mirabilia » group show at La Joaillerie par Mazlo gallery.

You can now see Gisbert Stach’s « Golden Toasts » (four brooches), at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) as part of the « Constellations : Contemporary Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art » exhibition, until 3 May 2026.

Golden Toasts 2019 in Paris @la_joaillerie, 2020 Collection Deedie Rose, 2022 gift to the Dallas Museum by Deedie Rose, collection
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Photo credit (view of the exhibition) : Sarah Schleuning DMA.

« Lluís Comín’s jewellery is inspired by archaeolo

« Lluís Comín’s jewellery is inspired by archaeology, mythology and the aesthetic canons of classical antiquity. But they are also inspired by the raw, harsh and rugged beauty of Nature, which this inveterate walker explores on foot. They convey a certain philosophy of Life, where communion and confrontation with Nature unite in a single movement to allow the individual to be born to themselves and to others. From this perspective, jewellery appears as the tangible expression of a dual process of transformation of matter. The inert matter of the object, put into action during the act of creation. Then the living, inner matter of the artist who, by submitting to solitude and the asceticism of work, transforms his sensations, memories and experiences into an autonomous work, now external to himself. » – Céline Robin about Lluis Comin’s work in « Sacrés Outils! ».

Come and discover a selection of early and recent works of the Catalan master, currently on show at the gallery.

Lluis Comin | No Title | Brooch | 1980.

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We are glad to show the first brooches of the seri

We are glad to show the first brooches of the series « Tropezón » by @hectorarielolguin in collaboration with Elisabeth Gasbarre, embroidery artist and Robert Mazlo, author jeweller.
Currently on show @la_joaillerie on the occasion of Hector Olguin’s new solo art photography exhibition « Two more drinks and I forget you », in collaboration with @fonds_mazlo.

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Currently on display at @la_joaillerie is a hybrid

Currently on display at @la_joaillerie is a hybrid work combining photography, design, and jewelry history, as part of photographer Hector Olguin’s solo exhibition:

1350°C
Set of nine brooches and their box/case, 2017.
Light oak wood, black velvet, felt, porcelain, metal.

The 1350°C project was born out of a collaboration between Hector Olguin, a French-Chilean visual artist/photographer, and Cynthia Ayral, a French designer/set designer, who shared a common interest in eroticism.
This project combines Japanese and European references: the tradition of cameos and that of Shunga (erotic prints from the Edo period, 17th-19th centuries). Produced in three copies, this work questions the elusive nature of eroticism, considered as an intellectual construct: a path leading to desire. Combining mixed techniques, this hybrid art object consists of a case containing nine oval photographs printed on porcelain.
Their author, Hector Olguin, draws inspiration from the world of Shunga, and more specifically from the reinterpretations made by pop artists in Japan from 1945 onwards. He identifies with the exuberance of the scenes depicted and the “madness of colors.”
In 1350°C, desire is materialized in photographic objects, in contemporary jewelry. Appropriating the traditional form of oversized cameos, these oval photographs break free from their contours. The prong setting frees the motif. The discreet presence of a fibula invites us to appropriate this image as a piece of jewelry. Porcelain is chosen for its sensuality and finesse.
The case containing the photographs is designed by Cynthia Ayral as a sensory journey leading to the image.

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From October 23 to November 29, 2025, the Robert M

From October 23 to November 29, 2025, the Robert Mazlo Endowment Fund for Art and Contemporary Art Jewellery welcomes Héctor Olguin for an exhibition of a new series of photographs at the LA Joaillerie par Mazlo gallery, in collaboration with the Alice Art Foundation, and the Arketip association.

Dos copas mas y te olvido. A humorous title for this project comprising 16 photographs taken in Paris between 2022 and 2024.

This series addresses the theme of romantic breakups by exploring the emotional process that follows a separation. The images convey the multiple states of mind that punctuate this journey.

As Hector Olguin explains, “while all love stories are unique, there is something universal about the experience of a break-up. In the fact of being overwhelmed by a whirlwind of emotions: incomprehension, anger, frustration, despair, emptiness, hesitation, sadness. Then, with time, acceptance, appeasement. Finally, liberation.

The characters in Dos copas mas y te olvido embody these emotions and torments through their gestures, contortions and sometimes grimaces. The body painting reinforces this impression of a marked body, inhabited in its flesh by the memory of the lost loved one.

The narrative does not follow a strict chronology. It is more like an interior space into which each viewer is invited to project their own experiences. Only the last photograph is fixed and closes the series: like a blank page stripped of all ornamentation, it suggests a conclusion as much as it opens up a passage and a possible return to life.

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Sigurd Bronger | Carrying device for 500 cubic zir

Sigurd Bronger | Carrying device for 500 cubic zirconia | Brooch | 2006.

Currently on view as part of the « Conciliabules of LA Joaillerie ».

For more than thirty years, Sigurd Bronger has been standing as a maverick figurehead in the international experimental jewelry scene, for in him Homo Faber and Homo Ludens merge to create an original figure of jeweler-engineer. This designation fits this artist like a glove, since he has long abandoned the essentially ornamental function of jewellery. Since the end of the 90’s, he has concentrated on the elaboration of objects based on the principle of the ready-made, which he names « wearable devices » and designs to stage all sorts of things. Some are drawn from the most prosaic every- day life – soap, eraser, used sole, sink drain –, while others – nautilus, eggs – have more to do with the Na- turalia of the cabinets of curiosities. Anyway, all of them are conceived with a rigorous precision, the result of his classical training as a jeweler and clockmaker.

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Robert Mazlo | Souvenir #53 | Seuls ensemble seuls

Robert Mazlo | Souvenir #53 | Seuls ensemble seuls / Alone together alone | « Souvenirs des mondes à venir » series | Ring | Gold, coloured silver, diamonds | Mazlo & At.

Currently on show as part of « The conciliabules of LA Joaillerie »

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Jana Machatova | Mega Busol | Brooch | 2020 Curren

Jana Machatova | Mega Busol | Brooch | 2020
Currently on show as part of the « Conciliabules of LA joaillerie »:

Inspired by a collection of cutouts from an old German women’s magazine for handcrafts entitled Frauenfleiss, which Jana Machatova found in the attic of her house, the artist tackles the subject of traditional female roles in the early twentieth century.She recognized them as timestamps in the life of an unknown woman whose dreams of a better life at the beginning of the 20th century were snuffed out prematurely by tragic historical events: two world wars and an ensuing abusive political system. In these narrative brooches, she skillfully contrasts symbolic moments of hope and female creativity with the starkness of circumstances and external realities imposed upon us during our lives.

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Robert Mazlo | Souvenir #46 - « Les soupirs de la

Robert Mazlo | Souvenir #46 - « Les soupirs de la sainte et les cris de la fée » (G. de Nerval) | «Souvenirs des mondes à venir » | Ring | Gold, coloured silver, enamel, rubellite, tourmaline, diamond, rough diamonds | Mazlo & at.
Currently on show @la_joaillerie as part of « The Conciliabules of LA Joaillerie ».

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Silvia Walz | Fatima (B-168) | From the « New Ladi

Silvia Walz | Fatima (B-168) | From the « New Ladies » series | 2013.
Currently on show @la_joaillerie as part of the « Conciliabules of LA Joaillerie »:

« My ladies series have now become a recurring activity. The first series was created in 2004 when I found and bought old photos at a flea market. The fact that someone had thrown away their entire family made me uncomfortable. So I began to work with these photos and so my very own family was created, which I gave the beautiful name Ladies of the Round Table. At exhibitions I was often asked if they were my sisters, but unfortunately I always had to say no, because I only have brothers.
The second series from 2013 was inspired by my participation in the exhibition A que juga- mos (what are we playing), which Fatima To- cornal organized. I called them New Ladies. The construction of the pieces is like the game of the surrealists, « Cadavres exquis », only that they are not drawings, but a game with fragments from my collection, which consists of discarded pieces and found treasures. »

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Kaori Juzu | As such II - orison / benison | serie

Kaori Juzu | As such II - orison / benison | series 03 | Brooch | 2019.

Currently on show as part of the « Conciliabules of LA Joaillerie »:

« A Japanese artist living in Bornholm, one of the Danish pearls of the Baltic Sea, Kaori Juzu remains a proud ambassador of her native country. However she stands out by the way she manages to make the most of her dual culture : she has achieved a perfect balance between the humility and refinement of Japanese craftsmanship and the minimalist aesthetic of the design of her adopted country.
An eternal islander, Kaori Juzu is an artist on the fringe who is forging her own path. In her hands the enamelled piece is no longer a two-dimensional surface, strictly divided by metal strips. Instead, the artist abolishes all boundaries to let the abstract forms, be they geometric or organic, unfold in space and play with the variations of light. She then applies enamel powder to their surface, interrupting the fusion just in time to preserve the brilliance and texture of the grains, according to a process she has developed herself. To the both respectful and bold appropriation of this ancestral technique, Kaori Juzu adds the consummate skill of a colourist, playing with contrasts and the refinement of a colour palette borrowed from the delicate shades of Nature during Spring and Autumn.
The enamelled treasures of Kaori Juzu are micro-revelations whose attraction never fades away. These are works of an intense simplicity that seem to draw us far from the echoes and clatter of the world. » — Introduction text by Céline Robin @celinerobin21 , exhibition curator.
 

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