Cecile Jeanne White Gripoix Glass Disc Choker with Red Fabric Flower

Description: Cecile et Jeanne was born in 1990 from a need to beautify women, from the ambition to bring colors to the streets. 30 years later, and after that our dove, timeless symbol of the house, went around the world, our jewelry is still handcrafted in our Parisian workshop, with an infallible know how: the result of 30 years of experience in costume jewelry. History of GRIPOIX Maison Gripoix starts out with a dramatic story. In 1869 (or a year earlier, according to other sources), Paris master glass-maker Augustina Gripoix began making replicas of pearls and crystals; casting glass into different shapes and colours and inserting them into most sophisticated settings. She used the pâte de verre (glass paste) technique, whereby a traditional ceramic or qypsum form was filled with a multi-colour pieces of glass and special gluing substances and then baked in a furnace, resulting in objects featuring fantastical hues. Only Augustina made her crystals by pouring the melted glass paste into the press moulds skipping the furnace step, allowing her to achieve the purity of colour, transparency and shine. She found a simple method to make beautiful jewelry and thus Marquises, Duchesses and Princesses qued up ... so Madame Gripoix would make them replicas of their own jewelry in case of robbery or loss, or some unusual jewelry pieces for their new wraps, neckpieces, or boas. The so-called ‘costume jewelry’ emerged to a large extent thanks to the work of Maison Gripoix.

Price: 145 USD

Location: San Francisco, California

End Time: 2024-11-05T00:17:20.000Z

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