Marie Genon

As a sculptor/model maker in the workshops creating Karl Lagerfeld's spectacular décors for 8 years, I developed a working method to quickly visualize the rendering of drawings, sketches, and drafts as paper models.

The detail became my specialty, precision my compass: rigor and structure inherited from a scientific background. It is in this context that I decided to apply this approach to the world of jewelry.

After completing several jewelry courses, I founded a design studio and a jewelry brand "Irène" in 2019. I was thus pursuing this passion for the infinitely small, the intensely precise: the scenography models gave way to those of high jewelry; the materials worked became more precious, but the approach remained resolutely the same.

Wishing to pass on my passion and appreciation for artisanal crafts to my clientele, I imagined Irène as a creation studio where expertise and passion prevail, where precision and attention to detail are expressed in every project, from drawing to realization, relying on the most precise traditional gouache and a model that sets out the design challenges.

With this acquired expertise, I transmit this approach to other jewelry houses and individuals through collaborations or specific projects.

Encounters and the diversity of artistic projects are a real source of motivation that fuel my curiosity and passion!

Different work stages are proposed:

- Research, documentation, and archives related to the project

- Sketches and drawings

- Traditional gouache

- Material selection and recommendation

- Collection plan

- Models

- Technical plans

- Liaison and production monitoring with the various workshops concerned

Available for collaborations or one-off projects.

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