Jean Dinh Van
"was very brilliant and very modest at the same time",
summed up his wife Marie-Françoise on Sunday, announcing his death following a fall on his head two weeks earlier.
With great gentleness but just as much determination, this creative craftsman of Breton (by his mother) and Vietnamese (by his father) origins has largely contributed to removing the precious jewel from its traditional shackles.
The one who, as a child, dreamed of being a naval officer was blown by the wind of an era he had perfectly understood, that of the 1960s, when
"the lines moved a lot in fashion and design but not in jewelry" ,
he explained to us ten years ago.
He was not a revolutionary, but certainly a free spirit, unconventional and unifying, who however began his career in a rather academic way.
He first studied drawing at the Decorative Arts and then the craft of blacksmithing in the school of jewelery of the City of Paris.
At the age of 20, her father, an artisan lacquerer, who…
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