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Robert Mazlo

Robert Mazlo Jewellery maker
Contact
French, Arabic, English, Italian
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+33 146042102
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Storyteller-jeweller

  • • Robert was born in a family of goldsmiths and jewellers
  • • He never makes the same piece of jewellery twice
  • • His work appears in private and public collections worldwide

Born in Beirut in 1949, Robert Mazlo wanted to be a writer. However, when he began learning the basics of jewellery at 14 in the workshop run by his father and other workshops in Beirut, he was won over by the craft. Since then, he has been telling stories, his own and those of others, through unique pieces of jewellery, miniature works of art to wear. “These objects are not meant to be symbols of power or status. They are rather snapshots of their time, objects whose function is to challenge. In this operation, I play the role of catalyst.” Robert makes a piece of jewellery entirely by hand, without resorting to new technologies or subcontractors. “The only thing I do not do is go and extract the materials myself!"

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Works

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20 000 years

This is a gold brooch depicting a man walking to the right on a gold band and touching the mirror-like surface of a black monolith with his left hand. The gold support is set with various stones and a prehistoric arrowhead delicately tied with golden threads. The piece is a homage to Stanley Kubrick.

Photo: ©Bob Ivanovitch
A Midsummer Night's Dream

This is a yellow gold ring made of golden wires. One end is decorated with a gold sphere, the other end supports three stones: two octogon crystals of green fluorite which flank a faceted green tourmaline cut into a heart shape.

Photo: ©Bob Ivanovitch
Heresy

This ring is from the series called Une Vie, composed of a two-colour assemblage of ancient and modern elements, sometimes mobile, evoking the trail of a comet.

Photo: ©Bob Ivanovitch
Opus Magnum

This gold ring is from the series called Une Vie. It depicts a man standing on the ring body and contemplating two diamonds, a rough diamond crystal and a faceted diamond, in pink hues. The gold surface of the ring body is fully textured.

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Sheitan

This ring from the series called Une Vie represents a standing gold boy figure walking on a chaotic gold surface set with two faceted diamonds. In his right hand, the boy holds a cubic grey diamond as if he is about to throw it into the air.

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