WHY L'ESCALET ?

All pieces are made to order and in small quantities, to avoid overproduction and allow customers to own a unique piece of jewelry that can easily be customized. Always handmade, my jewelry comes to life in three workshops, one located in Rome and two in Geneva.

All of them are small structures, including a family-run business, and employ highly qualified local artisans, each possessing different skills and techniques, including wax carving, stone setting, laser and enamel work, hand engraving. Whilst all the pieces of the main collection are produced in Italy, one-of-a-kind jewels, using unique, colored gemstones are made in Geneva.

For both my production in Italy and in Switzerland, I only use 18 karat recycled gold, to minimize my environmental footprint. The gold companies I buy the metal from are specialized in gold recycling and refining, meaning that they collect the gold from old pieces of jewellery and manufacture scraps, they process it, and refine it to obtain its original purity. Being virtually indestructible, there is a huge amount of gold in circulation potentially available for recycling: according to the World Gold Council, the stock of gold mined until now would cover approximately the next 60 years of demand. Alongside responsibly undertaken mining initiatives that would empower local communities (also known as “fair-trade gold”), both jewellers and customers are more and more concerned by circularity, while keeping the quality standards of the final product at the highest level.