Shops selling jewellery by Belgian Designers
Louise Kopij
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LOUISE KOPIJ BIJOUX
Souvent dorés, mes bijoux sont entièrement faits main, par moi-même, dans mon atelier belge. Ils sont pensés en mini séries de bijoux soignés, solides, de qualité esthétique et énergétique.
Pourquoi faire autrement?
Je les perçois comme des objets sacrés, des talismans protecteurs. Des reflets d’un instant, des états de nos émotions.
Conçus pour être solides et transmis.
Ils ont été, quelque part, mes premiers enfants.
UN PEU DE MOI
J’étudie les Arts, l’Histoire, l’Economie, les Sciences et toute chose qui puisse nourrir mon âme. Nous avons toujours quelque chose à découvrir. Cette curiosité se ressent dans mon approche. J’apporte un soin infini à la narration, au concept, au choix des matières : toujours naturelles, toujours d’une qualité infinie, toujours rares.
La plus respectueuse possible des sources avec lesquelles j’interagis : ce sont mes enfants, il s’agit de ne pas brouiller les pistes. Je propose de construire une vision, de transmettre de l’amour, de la beauté et une nouvelle narration aux personnes qui viennent jusqu’ici.
J’apprends, donc je suis. Le travail automatique de mes mains résonne comme le contact du musicien sur le bois : un mélange de technique et d’intuition pure. D’essais et d’erreurs mille fois répétés dans un cycle infini en chemin vers l’Union.
CRÉATRICE DANS L’ÂME
Il y a dans cette expérience que je partage avec vous, un temps pour l‘étude et un temps pour le lâcher prise. Ou comment envisager la construction d’un bijou comme un cadavre exquis composé dans la matière, pétris de réflexions du moment et proposé à l’autre comme le reflet d’un instant.
Avec en plus de ces réjouissances, les contraintes délicieuses que sont les besoins de portabilités, de solidité, de ces œuvres d’art à porter que sont les bijoux.
Je me soumets à la matière, c’est elle qui choisit ce qui est harmonieux, solide, ancré, empreint de poésie. Souvent j’enlève, je réduits, je taille jusqu’au noyau, jusqu’au cœur, ce qui est juste et suivi.
Je me réjouis de vous rencontrer et de construire juste pour vous, une pièce qui soit le reflet de votre parcours,
Merci d’être ici,
Louise
Isabelle Leloup
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Multiculturelle, née d’une mère vietnamienne et d’un père belge, diplômée en stylisme de la Cambre (Bruxelles), Isabelle crée des collections de bijoux depuis plus de 20 ans.
Après avoir réalisé des parures pour la couture (notamment pour la maison Natan) et des bijoux fantaisie haut de gamme, Isabelle s’est aujourd’hui recentré sur l’essentiel : des matières précieuses et durables, des lignes pures inspirées de ses origines asiatiques, un style inspiré par son goût pour le chic parisien et l’intemporelle classe à l’italienne.
Les bijoux ISABELLE LELOUP sont entièrement réalisés à la main en Belgique par des artisans joailliers, et sont exclusivement en Or 18 carats recyclé et diamants de qualité supérieure (couleur : G et pureté : VS1).
Chaque pièce de bijou est unique.
Office Avenue des Constellations 18 Waterloo 1410 Belgium
Showroom Rue Lebeaustraat 31 (Sablon) Brussels 1000 Belgium
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Since she was little, Jo De Visscher [°1976] is bitten by the fashion bug. She starts working with scraps of fabric which she turns into full silhouettes for her Barbie dolls and gets her mother to knit matching miniature sweaters.
While growing up, she sews her first skirts on an old sewing machine without having any formal training.
She studies maths and science and, as a teenager, becomes fascinated by an article on the restoration of the frescos in the Sistine Chapel. The article has such an impact on her that she decides to enrol in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, where she studies painting and specializes in restoration of contemporary art. She graduates in ’99, learns the ropes at the S.M.A.K., MuHKA and Kunstmuseum Bonn and finally starts her own restoration company (contemporary art conservation) in Brussels.
She’s asked to collaborate on the exhibition ‘Mutilate?-Vermink?’ — curated by Walter Van Beirendonck — at the MuHKA and this project rekindles her passion for fashion. Jo follows her heart, says goodbye to restoration and hello to fashion and clothing. She does an intensive course in pattern making, learns proper sewing properly this time and studies fashion design at night school. She also freelances for the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
In 2007, her final year show generates such a buzz that she decides to design and market her own ‘jodevisscher’ collection.
Hoornstraat 6 Gent 9000
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Jewelry that sparks conversations and curiosity.
OLA is a distinctive jewelry label that blends elements of modern and minimalist design.
The jewelry is produced by 3D printing technologies, allowing unexpected shapes and the use of innovative materials. Designer Ina Suffeleers draws inspiration from modern
architecture, simple shapes and 20th century art movements such as Bauhaus. Before launching OLA Jewelry in 2013, Ina worked as a marketing professional in the technology
industry.
Machine made. Finished by hand.
Every OLA jewelry piece starts with a creative design on paper. That idea becomes a computer file that embarks on a journey through a 3D printer. The most advanced 3D printing technology is used to produce the jewelry. Each OLA design comes in colored, silver and gold finishes. OLA Jewelry is printed from polyamide nylon and stainless steel powder, one layer at a time, until the jewelry piece is completely formed. The nylon is colored and treated with a protective finish. The steel jewelry is polished and plated with a layer of silver or gold.
The 3D printing process leaves a subtle texture on the surface making the look quite unique. Each design is available in black, blue, gold or silver. Every OLA piece is polished for comfort and finished by hand.
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Highly individual expressions of highly personal emotions, that’s how you could describe the jewellery of Marie-Bénédicte de Schryver. She expresses her femininity in her creations in a fragile, noble and sensual way. “I want women to feel subtly seductive when wearing my jewellery”. Her creations are not only artistic by design, but are wearable in daily – or not so daily – life.
Marie-Bénédicte designs rings, necklaces and earrings to embellish fingers, neck and ears. Not a single design is a cheap compromise, even if it can be reproduced. An elegant flower as earring, a fine leaf as necklace, feminine elegance plays a vital role in the creations of this reputed goldsmith and jewellery designer.
Goldsmith and jewellery designer Marie-Bénédicte de Schryver offers you a quality insurance, every jewel is almost invisibly marked with a karat stamp and her officially recognised master stamp that guarantees your jewel is a design and creation of Marie-Bénédicte herself.
Eekhout 16 Gent 9000 Belgium
Isabelle Lenfant
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IL concept
‘The most beautiful jewel a person can wear are the arms of the person she loves.
For those who have had the good fortune of finding this happiness and those who haven’t yet, I am here…’ (Isabelle Lenfant, inspired by Y.S.L.)
Transforming everyday objects into precious jewels and imprinting them with life’s sensibility so that they remain engraved in our memory: that is the approach chosen by Belgian jewellery designer Isabelle Lenfant for what she calls her Heart Jewels.
For Isabelle, jewels are highly symbolic: they can evoke a memory, a presence, a sense of protection…
They form a second skin… as well as a suit of armour between the body and the world, shielding it from the inevitable ups and downs that are part of a life lived to the fullest.
As Jeanne Moreau once said: ‘I don’t have much of a memory… but I do have souvenirs’. Jewels are that souvenir…
This jewel tells a story… Isabelle’s dream is that the people who wear her designs will appropriate them and imbue them with their own history, their own symbolism – their life, quite simply – and that they will thus wear… la vie en rose.
Isabelle Lenfant’s initials – ‘IL’ – blend both femininity and masculinity.
The collection ‘IL by Isabelle Lenfant’ reimagines everyday objects, such as a Band-Aid wrapped around a finger or applied on a neck or wrist. A silver or gold diamond, in whose split genuine jewels are inserted…
The branches of a tree to remind us that we are the only solid foundation of our lives…
As Juliette Binoche once said: ‘To dream, you must have your feet on the ground. The deeper the roots, the stronger the branches’.
The pieces in the collection are in 925 silver and in 18-carat gold. Some pieces are set with precious stones such as diamonds or rubies and have been designed in the finest tradition of jewellery design.
An important part of Isabelle’s research focuses on individuality, on the adaptable nature of her designs. The chains can thus be worn in different ways, and those who wear them are thus in a sense continuing her designs. The chains are ornamented with unusual symbols: a set of keys to unlock all possibilities, envelopes that are open to receive a secret, a love letter, a plug and socket to disconnect, smashed watches and their mechanisms to arrest time and live in the present…
The pieces in the collection ‘IL by Isabelle Lenfant’ are a presence one forgets, an ‘otherwise’. They carry us into a world lit up by the beauty of experience, of not-forgetting and of individuality. A world where life is punctuated by three ellipsis points and not a full stop. A world where adaptable jewels offer a blank page to those who wear them and imprint them with their own story, their own secrets, their own symbolism and thus turn the given piece into something unique, in their own image.
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« 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.
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 stones, according to the stones symbolic and colours, inside the ring allowing the skin to be in contact with the stone and its qualities
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….
29 rue vilain XIV Brussels 1000 Belgium
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100 % Made In Belgium.
Established in 2008, TAMAWA owes its clear identity to the Bakelite ball, used as the core material and component for all the products in its collection. It all started when designer Hubert Verstraeten met with Belgian snooker ball manufacturer SALUC, set in the region of Tournai in Belgium. From then on, SALUC would supply Aramith (Phenolic resin) to the designer who first started by self-producing two watches, followed by the design of a whole jewellery line, which inspired the name of the company – ‘TAMAWA’, meaning in Japanese; “ball on steel ring”.
Japanese inspiration
Tamawa Ball LampIn order to open up to wider creative possibilities, TAMAWA quickly decided to call upon emerging design talents such as Big Game, Belgian designers Sylvain Willenz and Alain Berteau, the artist Yann Lestrat, jeweller and silversmith Nedda El-Asmar. By bringing its own understanding and by translating in its on way the concept of the ‘mono-form / mono-material’ of the Bakelite ball, each designer has enriched the collection with unique items- Nedda El-Asmar, in creating memory form jewellery, Big Game with the BALL LAMP, Alain Berteau with a USB key and Pepper and salt mills and Sylvain Willenz with his coat-stand LOCK, wall hooks PIFF and suspension lighting RAY.
With an impeccable technical quality (shine & durability), in a wide range of up-lifting colours (white, blue, yellow, purple, black, orange, red and pink, all official snooker colours), the playful nature of the products goes far beyond the snooker ball rooms, all being as much of a reference to the iconic ‘Hang It All’ of Charles & Ray Eames than a playful approach to objects with its infinite colour combination.
In a very short time, TAMAWA acquired a legitimate Producer status.TAMAWA focuses on a method of production integrated to the company’s infrastructure, stock capacities and manufacturing facilities, all allowing creative as well as logistical flexibility. Surprisingly, the sphere allows never-ending ideas. However, TAMAWA’s challenge is to make sure it always maintains a coherent collection, with its particular attention to aesthetics and its interest for clever engineering. Design manufacturer 100 % Made in Belgium Collaborations with emerging designers With this very focus, TAMAWA can provide high quality objects at affordable production costs, enabling Belgian production and the use of a majority of European components. It is a real pleasure for TAMAWA’s Designers to come to the workshop and work on their ideas, to experiment on their project, going through different phases of the manufacturing process; from milling, drilling, high pressure-assembly, fine-tuning and testing to the final product.
Working with graphic design agency DONUTS.Brussels based graphic designers DONUTS were chosen to implement the brand’s identity. DONUTS created the TAMAWA logo, product packaging, brochures and the graphic identity of the website. All the advertising material put forward the idea of the sphere form and colours, in tune with the unique identity of the brand. Their aesthetic and their approach are in keeping with TAMAWA’s reality. It only takes a look at the introduction video on the website (“2 spheres, 8 colours, 64 rings”) to understand the tactile and versatile qualities of the brand’s collection.
TW27 & TW35 watches by Hubert Verstraeten.Tamawa Small Watch TW27
Watches are the emblematic pieces of the collection. TAMAWA’s watches are discernable illustrations of the brand’s values, demonstrating a real know-how of clockwork that only a few manufacturers can craft today. Composed of a spherical dial, a Bakelite ball and of a double bracelet, their design is the perfect reflection of the TAMAWA universe.
Tamawa LOCK
LOCK coat-stand by Sylvain Willenz.
LOCK is a reinterpretation of the archetypal coat-stand. Inspired by COATED, a former coat-stand project, Willenz developed LOCK, a simple and effective solution comprising a Bakelite ball and 3 sticks. The particularity of this coatstand lies in the simplicity of its elements and how they are put together. The 3 wooden poles are inserted through a cleverly machined Bakelite ball, which maintains them together thanks to a sole screw discreetly located under the ball . The softness of natural wood contrasting with the glossy Bakelite ball results in a joyful and playful item for the home.
Salt& Pepper Mills S&P 57 and S&P 76 by Alain Berteau.Tamawa S&P Mill
These two models of salt and pepper mills are composed of 2 and 3 Bakelite balls in order to reflect their method of use. Both designs use a unique system called Crushgrind (its material and its sturdiness allow to crush both pepper and salt with ease). S&P 57 and S&P 76 are playful and elegant seasoning items for the kitchen and the dining table
Piff by Sylvain WillenzTamawa Wall Hooks
PIFF is a family of 3 versatile wall-hooks. There is no use of glue; only pressure has been used to assemble all parts together. The PIFF wall-hooks are available in 4 colour ways. In All Black, all Red and in 2 colour mixes. Very easy to mount to the wall. Each PIFF comes with a special strong screw and a wall-plug.
Tamawa Ray Light
RAY pendant lighting by Sylvain Willenz
With RAY suspension light, Sylvain Willenz explores Tubular-Lighting once again, a few years following his personal project INNERTUBE (a rubber lightshade kept in shape with a circular TL). TL Lighting is rarely used in domestic environments. RAY makes use of TAMAWA’s specialized production techniques, expertise and understanding of Bakelite balls, consequently creating a domestic lighting fixture with a refined technical solution; an original and colour ful alternative to common TL connectors.
Ball Lamp by Big GameTamawa Ball Lamp
The idea to create a lamps as first object for the Tamawa home collection came very naturally. Big Game has the habit of stripping its objects of their,original function, creating the pretext for a new design. The Ball Lamp is a white glass globe resting on a ball the same size of bakelite, a confrontation of two different materials re into the work dhybridation, familiar ground and source dinspiration favorite of the trio. With the play of light that accentuates leffet juxtaposition of the two forms of spherical homothetic, the language is at once simple, delicate dunes while having strong visual presence.
Jewelry collection by Hubert Verstraeten
The TAMAWA jewelry collection plays on the beauty of the surface of the bakelite beads, which is reduced to its purest form of the jewel. The mini colored
bakelite beads can be used in diverse ways as they can be adjusted on watches, earrings, cufflinks and rings. For example, when forming part of a necklace, the beads follow the movements of the body harmoniously as they shift on a stainless steel base resembling that of a crescent moon or a smiley. Available in various sizes, the jewel becomes a landscape for open and innovative experimentation. They can be made up of one bead, two beads, three beads or more seamlessly assembled on a timeless string of pearls. Oversized as regards the traditional accessory, the beads may be worn on the fingers, wrist and body combining their smooth asymmetric design with originality for presentation in a pure classic style. Always combined with stainless steel, these accessories unite style and fashion with innovative design and are available in a rich palate of colors such as red, yellow, blue, orange, violet, rose, black and white. Assembled and intertwined seductively, TAMAWA plays on the contrasts, harmonies and beauty of the ideal object. Encrusted gemstones such as amethyst,
topaz, smoky quartz or diamonds serve only to enhance the discrete elegance of this collection. Luxury in Technicolor opens the door to many other possible variations of a similar theme using all the bead colors and gemstones. Glossy and glamorous, these micro Bakelite beads are like pearls, offering a way to customize your own jewelry box, with a personal touch and in a contemporary style.
rue des Vétérinaires 42 D mod. 02, Bât. 3 Brussels 1070 Belgium
Elke Peeters
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Already as a child Elke Peeters knew she would be designing jewellery. After all it was her own grandfather who lead her to discover the beauty of diamonds and jewels. After high school Elke ventured to Antwerp to study jewellery design at the Academy of Fine Arts. For a long time she combined design with teaching, but a few years back she resolved to pursue her own brand and workshop.
Today Elke designs jewellery for women who enjoy timeless beauty and care a great deal for quality and service. Precious materials such as gold, silver, diamonds and other precious stones inspire her to create valuable gems. In addition to custom made designs, she produces her very own annual collection piece by piece characterised by elegance and pure femininity. All jewels are also handmade, signed and therefore unique. In short, treasures to give, to wear and to cherish.
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ABOUT ELECTED.BE
By establishing Elected.be I created a webshop tailored for you where personal service is central.
Here you can casually browse the collections from Belgian and European designers in a fresh and accessible way.
The selection of ladies wear is carefully chosen by me and displayed for women like you and I.
Belgian brands such as FAM the label, Four Roses, Just in Case, Laurence Delvallez, Magdalena en Nathalie Vleeschouwer are supplemented with European brands such as Bellamy Gallery, FUB and POM Amsterdam.
The brands are continuously combined based on my vision and values of sustainability, creativity and originality.
If you prefer personal advice and would like to try on the clothes and feel the materials, I am available in th Elected showroom in Dottenijs.
With my passion for fashion, Style and colors I will gladly guide you to a stylish outfit in which you can be 100% yourself.
Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions of if you would like to make an appointment in the Elected showroom. Via 0478/87.90.25 or an@elected.be I am happy to help you further.
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I hope to see you soon,
An Vermoesen
Georges Deryckerstraat 20 Dottenijs 7711 België
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Joëlle Van de Voorde is the Belgian accessory and jewel designer who created the label in 1999.
She studied Monumental Sculpture at the “Royal Academy of Fine Arts” before setting her eyes on jewelry making. In 2001, she opened her showroom in Brussels and she soon began exporting her collection world- wide, to France, Italy, England, New Zealand, Australia, USA, Japan…
She has won several awards and consolidated her love for the contemporary art with her talent to create a range of pieces recognizable by its original design and its subtle mix of colors.
ET LE BIJOU CREA LA FEMME develops a new collection twice a year, which are presented during PARIS FASHION WEEK. Always embracing innovation, the label had acquired its own and unique style over the year
11, rue Emile Bouilliot Brussels 1050 Belgium