In collaboration with designer Marion Vidal, Bernardaud is launching new jewelry collections, Luna, Scarabée, Alba and Figures, made entirely by hand in the Manufacture.
Marion Vidal started in jewelry with earthenware 15 years ago. The collaboration with Bernardaud became an obvious choice. After a discovery tour of the factory in Limoges where the designer was able to appreciate its expertise, Bernardaud gave her carte blanche to create new jewelry collections in porcelain. Marion Vidal is seduced and impressed by the workshops but also by all the new technical advances that allow her to enhance porcelain… its sensuality, its whiteness, its brilliance, its purity and its delicacy. While everything seems to contradict each other, she discovers that porcelain is the hardest of ceramics. But she does not forget what makes her signature… attention to the smallest details, to the comfort of the wearer and to the articulations of the jewel, the jewel must be sensual and tactile. Thus were born the new Bernardaud jewelry collections by Marion Vidal.
Luna Collection
Of great finesse and much roundness, such are many Luna pendants, an ode to the night star. Sometimes colorful and luminous, sometimes dark and intense, all the sensuality of porcelain is found in this collection of necklaces imagined by designer Marion Vidal.
The different settings are hypnotizing, the jewelry is like talismans... Ladon models have a gold herringbone pattern resembling reptile skin; Gaia models offer layers of malachite edged with gold like the waves of an old engraving; Eclipse models have graphic shapes where blue and black blend with gold. Gold is present on each pendant to bring relief and light.
Scarab Collection
The Scarab Collection Celebrating the sacred beetle of ancient Egypt, designer Marion Vidal has redesigned it with great elegance. The scarab is considered a lucky charm, it is the symbol of the rebirth of the sun and eternal life.
The porcelain pendant is illuminated by gold combined with colors such as orange, blue, green, white or black... an impression of modernity and originality for this modern-day amulet.
Alba Collection
With the Alba collection, Marion Vidal wanted to create a signature collection, timeless and pure… the beauty of an ancient Egyptian jewel in a modern and contemporary world. The shape is a generous hollowed curve, creating an opposition between curved and rounded volume and inward and flat face.
The jewelry remains simple, geometric and refined in origin… choker necklace, circular pendant, sleeper earrings, flat ring and band ring. The collection is available in several colors and a white version highlights the purity and beauty of the white porcelain.
The pendants, meanwhile, feature elegant gold profiles connecting the porcelain elements with a fine gold-plated chain. For the earrings and rings, very elegant settings are custom-cut by laser and gold-plated.
Figures Collection
The jewelry of the Figures collection appear like jewel-like sculptures, small shapes carved in porcelain with a multitude of curves of different thicknesses.
The collection comprises five pendants, a kind of charm or talisman to be made your own, worn on your person, or held in your hand for their pleasant-to-touch shapes. A colored cord, coordinated with the pendant, surrounds and supports the porcelain part, while a metal profile tightens it. The whole is hand-sewn in the Bernardaud workshops.
The decor feels like a colorful vibration around the vertical, in the central part of the jewel. Two pendants are worn long, three are worn shorter.
About Marion Vidal
Marion Vidal is an architect trained in Paris and Milan, and is also a graduate of the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Her creative process is identical to that of a designer or architect. The form is shaped according to the material. Numerous technical, artistic, and poetic sources inspire her creations, which balance elegance and technique. Her creations are connected, articulated compositions, assembling different elements, always with a constant attention to detail and the care to find the right proportions and contrasts for a powerful piece of jewelry that is comfortable to wear.
Marion Vidal declares: “ Porcelain is for me a precious material, which has immense technical potential. I thought I knew it very well but I remain surprised and fascinated by its extreme brilliance due to a very white, very taut enamel. I was also very seduced by the technical capabilities and the very advanced research projects developed within the Bernardaud workshops and their desire and their capacity to always go further technically ».
André Tirlet
