The young French jeweler Emmanuel Tarpin has created a set of 7 jewels on the theme of the orchid. The flamboyance and strangeness of this flower are perfectly enhanced by a subtle treatment of light and shadow.<\/p>\n
By Sandrine Merle.<\/p>\n
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Last December, Emmanuel Tarpin presented a set of 7 orchids to be worn as brooches or earrings at the L\u00e9vy Gorvy Dayan Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in New York. “They were exhibited among works by Pierre Soulages, which allowed me to start a conversation around the intensity of light,” explains the barely 30-year-old jeweler.<\/p>\n
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Variations on the orchid<\/strong><\/p>\n Among the thousands of orchid species in existence, Emmanuel Tarpin has chosen the “Sabot de V\u00e9nus”, the butterfly-like “Psychopsis Tiger” with its trio of graceful antennae, the butterfly-like “Phalaenopsis”, the “Cattleya”, and the “Brassia Spider” with its long, spider-like petals. He has restored the vivacity of the petals’ colors. White is associated with barley-sugar pink or soft green, from red to yellow. He also conjured up an intense black.\u00a0 “The depth of color would have been impossible to achieve with simple rhodium plating,” explains Emmanuel Tarpin, who worked at the workbench for four years after graduating from HEAD. “The best school for engaging in dialogue with craftsmen and experimentation”. For this collection, he carried out all the research with two Parisian entities capable of producing waxes by hand.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n