I like to work in the evening. When the phone finally stops ringing and I can sit at my workbench and put on some music. Yes, it sounds cliché, but I’m sure you love it too. It’s so nice to have peace and quiet! You can work, get your head around adapting a drawing, and finish complicated things in no time. I’m exaggerating a bit, but honestly, I’ve never worked so well as when I’m in peace and quiet from 6.30 to 11pm. And then I like this atmosphere, when the workshop is silent.
F., jeweller for 35 years
A few diamonds, a ring and a big anger
A few days ago, I was having lunch with an old acquaintance. A very nice man whom I hadn't seen for several years and who knew me as a young apprentice, freshly arrived in Paris in the early 2000s. As is often the case in the neighbourhood where I...