“Mood”. This ultra-flexible bracelet, with its distinctive piercing clasp, has been a major factor in the success of the brand based in the USA, home to founder Camille Parruitte McKenna.

Made from non-precious materials and with no reference to the past, these 5 avant-garde jewels are a space where designers Fumiki Taguchi, Shinji Nakaba, Manami Aoki, Mariko Kusumoto, Kazumi Nagano express the delicacy, dexterity and almost obsessive attention to detail of 18th-century craftsmen.

The Japanese aspect of Hum lies rather in the work on metal colors and textures. And its philosophy.

In 2023, the Loewe Foundation Craft prize brought Shinji Nakaba into the spotlight, but this self-taught jewelry designer had in fact been creating jewelry since 1974, when he was 24.

Emmanuel Tarpin has not sought to echo the magnificent orchids of Tiffany & CO. or those of René Lalique, created over a century ago. That said, his jewels, all of which have been sold, are certainly worthy of the comparison.