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Oddities of rotten elements are a subject I've been exploring since my studies at the Royal Academy of Antwerp. The Ode collection is a continuation of this research, where I bring goldsmith's craftsmanship to art pieces, with a great sense of detail for fashion and design.    _ I see this collection as a celebration of life and time passing. I confront the common aesthetic with beauty sublimated by asymmetry, incomplete forms and ruptures. Harmony and wisdom lie in natural simplicity and spontaneity. Not in the absence of imperfections. I enhance this approach with baroque pearls and textures from dead...

Inspired by the café de flore in Paris, the Saga café awards a literary prize for a first French-language Belgian novel in Liège. From 2015 to 2020, I designed the trophies awarded to the writers. Each time, the theme of the feather has been approached in a different way, while maintaining a minimal, graphic line by working directly on metal.   The metal of choice was brass, but for the 10th edition, a feather was embossed in pure silver.     Pictures by Damien Franchimont

A collaboration project with Fiona Rombaut, Nikam Linova, Babeth Albert & Ana Japson    

Éphémère In June 2020, I got my master degree in jewellery design, contemporary and silver & goldsmithing at the Antwerp academy. It was an intense and very uncommon year due to the pandemic. The workshops were completely closed for the most critical time of the year so we kind of had to improvised in order to bring our thoughts to finished pieces. As you may know, they have been made in a very short time, this is why my master project has this more experimental and unfinished research look.  Just like my bachelor project, I keep being attracted by the...