Jean Vendome

INNOVATOR IN THE FIELD OF MODERN JEWELRY

Jewelry “Jean Vendome” is a completely recognizable identity that cannot be confused with anything. Jean Vendome left the world a legacy of over 30,000 items. Jewelry innovator Ohan Tugdaryan, aka Jean Vendome, is a jeweler with exceptional talent. He used rare stones, feeling their poetry. At over many years’ jewelry items for Jean Vendome they had not been linked to the value of the materials: only with the natural beauty of the stone and the originality of the design.

The source of inspiration for the jeweler became René Lalique, designer jewelry products in the style of Art Nouveau and the master of glass, for which in the greater degree have significance not tradition, and art embodiment. “His love for art has inspired me”, – wrote Jean Vendome.

The jeweler was born in Lyon in April 1930 the year. He felt the urge to paint early. In the workshop of his uncle, a Parisian jeweler studied the basics of the traditional jeweler business and very wanted to go his way.

Already in 18 years, aiming to creative independence, Vendome has shown extraordinary ingenuity: opened its first store in the 11th district of Paris, as well as the money from it was not seen, to create what – or objects, exhibited in the showcase store their pictures, hoping, that it will make customers come and transform your old ornaments. “Those were difficult years, but I wanted to blaze a new path in my profession,” the jeweler recalled.

WORKING WITH THE MATERIAL

In the course of many years, the jeweler examined the materials, inspired by the artistic movements of the XX century. First Vendome collided with the metal in the 1950’s years. Creating modern jewelry items, he erased the boundaries between artistic precious stone and high jewelry products. Their graphic lines and exclusive nature gave jeweler unique creative approach, which lost all desire to classify rocks.

Violating the generally accepted norms, he gave preference to the beauty of the object, travel and dreamy aspiration, not attaching importance to the quality of stones. On the contrary, as the precious stone has inclusions, then it such unique characteristics become a great opportunity for creativity Vendome.

The precious stone in his works became an art object, sculpture, work of art, and a search for natural beauty, expressed in radiance, color and texture. Jean Vendome became for a certain alchemist – a jeweler who left an indelible impression of his era with the greatest intellectuals of his time.

WORKING WITH FORMS

Already in 1960’s and 1970’s respectively, when most jewelers showed flat symmetrical decorations, Jean Vendome creating products, representing a blast of organic forms and unconventional volumes. He has become a real leader of jewelers – garde.

Jean Vendome very seriously approached to the process of the study body. All his ornaments are organically fit into its mold. It seemed jewelry became part of the body that, for which it was manufactured. Moreover, the vanturistic Creator, passionate about gemology and mineralogy, he constantly explored new forms and felt equilibrium. As for the many years, he studied the shape and materials, inspired by the major artistic movements of the 20th century: from pop – kinetics to the spatial dream of Apollo, which were embodied in his jewelry, embodied in itself the most unusual images and forms.

COLOR OF FREEDOM

Geometric volumes of ring structures represented his passion to urban architecture, and 1980’s were inspired by “ unrealistic walks “, where he plays in the mimetic analogies agates, fragments of eternity, matt and shiny gold jewelry with a phantom quartz. 1990’s were sealed using minerals with a strong color. Their Jean Vendome called “wandering color” or “color of freedom.”

It was the time to dream and Jean Vendome used it for his creativity. ■

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