22/03/2026
jewellery from three rebels ahead of their time.
Born just a few years apart — Ilias Lalaounis in 1920, Jean Dinh Van in 1927, Gilbert Albert in 1930 — all three set out to shake up the Gold as memory — Mycenaean, Minoan and Byzantine motifs reinvented as sculptural jewellery.
Dinh Van opened his Maison in Paris in 1965, after ten years at Cartier. Clean lines. Geometric shapes. The handcuffs, the Pi, the razor blade.
Gilbert Albert opened his atelier in Geneva in 1962, after years at Patek Philippe. Nature in all its extravagance — scarabs, meteorites, interchangeable beads set in gold.
One resurrects the past. One pares it down. One lets it overflow. All three dared to shake their era.