This dial was created for a watch featured in Piaget's Sunlight Journey collection. The marquetry of feathers in natural colours, cut in the form of scales, evokes brushstrokes in shades of blue and white, it features a maritime landscape where the sky meets the sea.
Diameter 3.1 cm
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Émilie Moutard-Martin
- Featherworker
- Locquirec, France
- Master Artisan
- Recommended by French Savoir-Faire Institute (INMA)
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Precious feathers
- • Émilie specialises in miniature feather work
- • She invented a process of gilding with a feather leaf
- • She has collaborated with major Luxury Houses
Émilie Moutard-Martin is a feather artist, she works the material to highlight its particularities and to create new textural effects. “I didn't choose the feather, it is the feather that chose me. The stories I wanted to tell could not be expressed in words. Rather than dipping it in ink, I made the feather itself the ink for my creations.” She has developed a know-how in miniature feather work and feather marquetry which allows applications on micro-supports, notably in the fields of jewellery and fine watchmaking. Her inspiration comes from the natural elements, the light that sublimates them: “The sensations experienced when facing the impalpable, the ephemeral, make me read the immensity of the world in detail. I read a landscape in a shell.”
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Sunlight Journey dial
Photo: © Olivier Helbert
Silent Forest
The Silent Forest is a commissioned work created for Boucheron, evoking the triumph of nature. Through the cracks and crevices of a burnt oak panel, luxuriant vegetation is reborn in feathers with natural colours combined with a "feather powder", using a flocking technique invented by Émilie Moutard-Martin in 2010.
Height 140 cm
Width 100 cm
Photo: © Antony Girardi
Stratus
A refined landscape where the feather, in its natural colour palette, is shaped in the form of pigments according to the feather powder flocking technique created by Émilie Moutard-Martin, playing with the structural properties of the material, the iridescence and the colour variations revealed by the intimate dialogue with light.
Height 50 cm
Width 75 cm
Photo: © Nicolas Spinelli
Nicky de Saint Phalle coat
This coat was made for the Coppélia Pique House in tribute to Nicky de Saint Phalle. At the heart of a snake of black feathers bursts a rocket of intense colours – a transposition in natural coloured feathers of the artist's famous shots.
Photo: © Florent Mulot
Sélénite
The Sélénite cuff combines an embroidery of micro sequins with a tangle of goose feathers applied using the "feather pleat" technique created by Émilie Moutard-Martin, which is recalling mineral structures or certain complex fabric pleats. It evokes an unreal lunar landscape that unites white coral with the waves of the sea.
Height 8 cm
Width 5 cm
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