IL CONCEPT
OR ROSE 18 carats
Photo de Julien Claessens
"The beauty is in the eyes of the beholder."
Oscar Wilde
bague scotch en or 18 carats
Photo de Julien Claessens
Argent 925/1000
gravure à la main
Photo de Julien Claessens
"Ne prends pas tes désirs pour des banalités."
Brigitte Fontaine
“HEAL WITH THE HEART; WHAT IS ESSENTIAL IS INVISBLE TO THE EYES!”
This is the symbolic quest the Belgian Isabelle Lenfant features in what she calls her “heart jewels”.
“Il by Isabelle Lenfant” ’s art jewels are not only set in the Rock and Roll universe reflecting her own personality... they are also pierced by life emotions.
The jewel has its own symbolic power. It is offered as a present, a souvenir, it tattoos the person adopting it.
bracelet Noeud sur lacet en cuir -Argent 925
Photo de Charlotte Pasternak
"La vie est un voyage, autant le faire en première classe."
P. Noiret
bracelet Noeud sur lacet en cuir -Argent 925
Photo de Charlotte Pasternak
"La vie est un voyage, autant le faire en première classe."
P. Noiret
« IL by Isabelle Lenfant » ART jewels are designed
hand-crafted, in the pure jewellery tradition. Made in
Belgium and in France.
“IL’s” creations exist in hand-polished sterling
silver (925/1000) or charcoal grey oxidized.
Silver is a living matter that individualizes each
creation. In time ... life tarnishes and oxidizes
it... This matter itself symbolizes the concept of
uniqueness that is developed thereafter in Isabelle
Lenfant’s creations... it consolidates and embraces
it.
As “Il by Isabelle Lenfant”’s creations are neither
silver plated again nor rhodium... they oxidise in
the course of time... If you want them to remain as
they are just clean them with a soft cloth or use a
product for silver. Though cut to the quick as if
life had already brushed them... the chains are
joined together by links soldered by hand.
Lockets are also hand-cut and each of the keys is
chipped in a different way... that makes them unique.
Polishing makes it a mirror... reflecting shades and
lights...
A large part of Isabelle Lenfant’s search focuses on
individuality, on the adjustable side of her
creations. Chains can be worn in various ways, in
different lengths... what allows the one wearing the
jewel to make it his/her own.
bracelet en argent 925
Photo de Julien Claessens
The Collection extends to 18 carat gold items,
black, white... but mainly pink ones to wear life in
another way.
Gold is a matter that time can’t deteriorate. That
way it symbolizes the sparkle kept in our eyes
despite our own life’s chaos...
Today “Il by Isabelle Lenfant” ‘s creations are set
with precious or semi-precious stones, according to
the stones symbolic and colours, inside the ring
allowing the skin to be in contact with the stone and
its qualities (link: symbolic stone
colour/qualities).(Blue: Serenity/ Green: Hope/ Red:
Love and Protection/ Pink: linked to Venus:
Tenderness and Happiness/ Purple: Temperance/ White:
Pureness/ Black: Humanity and Respectability/)
(Silver: Everlasting Love (25years silver wedding
anniversary/ Gold: Love faithful to the time’s tracks
(50 years golden wedding anniversary)) - (Emerald:
Pureness/ Diamond: guarantee for Eternity/...) Own
desires and secrets could also be engraved...
Custom-made jewels to transform the proposed item
into one unique piece reflecting the one who will
adopt it...
Karina Noyons
"Karina Noyon works with mobility and velocity in her jewellery. Pieces of ear jewellery are made of a silver spiral, so they rock when there is motion; neck jewellery swings in front of the body like a pendulum, and the pieces of head jewellery called 'Self-Swing' is a mobile that is set in motion by the movement of the body....A piece of arm jewellery consisting of a broasd lamina is provided with a rubber lamina next to the arm....
" Dansk Smykke Kunst 1960 - 2000 by Lise Funder
Daniel Von Weinberger
From 1965 until 1973 he studied jewellery, fashion and theatre design at the Royal Academy of Art in Antwerpen and Precious Metal Worker, after that he learned enameling at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, followed by a year in sculpture in Antwerp.
He participated in more that 50 exhibitions in Begium, USA, Germany, Japan etc...
He has the reputation of being the most extravagant of the modern jewel designers.
Pictures Exhibition 2007
Dominique Favey Blackmore
She always been interested in jewelry and worked for the Haute Couture (Paco Rabane, Christian Lacroix, Ungaro...).
She is also producing her own jewelry line.