My Christmas Wish List - Lydia Courteille

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       Lydia Courteille

"To Cassandrea"

The adress is petite but unique for it's 19th Century vitrines, where a baroque sentiment is guarantied, set against velvety midnight blue and it's number: 231, almost the Faubourg but already Saint Honoré.

Here you meet the stylish, the fanciful and the feminine literary figures with their vamp-jeweled fingers such as Christine Orban and Nathalie Rheims; women with spirit for these conversational jewels.

It is here, in this Orphean decoration that Lydia Courteille cultivates her dreams, like in a greenhouse. An incredible carnival of vintage jewellery, gleamed through the lifetime of a passionate antiquarian, fond of the extraordinary, who decides, one day, to create what she was relentlessly searching for.

There is the imaginery of a terrifying bestiary worthy of Jérome Bosch paintings, from which she diverts the diabolical for the beauty of there forms.

Turquoise, opal, jade, coral, ivory - every vitrine has its colour, its theme."

Source: Lydia Courteille

http://www.lydiacourteille.com 

 

                                         Enjoy!   AJ