He wore three rings on each hand and changed them regularly.
The Parisian antique dealer Yves Gastou, who died in March 2020, never tired of telling the origin and symbolism of each piece in his collection, which numbered nearly a thousand.
Tonight and tomorrow, his son, Victor Gastou (director of the rue Bonaparte gallery founded by his father), and Gislain Aucremanne, art historian and specialist in antique jewelry, will take up the thread of these stories during digital conferences (in French and English*) organized by the School of Jewelry Arts.
These presentations are part of an exhibition, featuring this ensemble as rich as it is heterogeneous, which was first held in the Parisian premises of the School of Jewelry Arts in 2018 and continues in this time in Tokyo.
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Yves Gastou's passion for men's rings came to him from childhood and "
from the rings of the bishops of Saint-Martin de Limoux, near Carcassonne, where
(he would)
spend most...
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