The creative story of QITTERI began with a desire to discover the beauty and incredible colour palettes of the gems used in fine jewellery, often little known to the general public.
It was also a desire to invent new and original architectural designs that would showcase the light of these stones, bring them to life together and enhance them in the simplest way possible.
Michel TORTEL, architect, designer, lighting specialist, engineering enthusiast and solid jewellery connoisseur, drew on his original experience to respond to this creative challenge, off the beaten track, like an alchemist of light.
It took seven years of research, testing and technical fine-tuning to develop the collections and their unique universe.
They open up new aesthetic territories, combining shapes and original combinations of rare gems in terms of both colour and brilliance.
DESIGN
Each piece of jewelry is designed around its stones and their harmonies. A delicate work of detail and proportion where a few tenths of a millimeter separate a magnificent piece from a simply beautiful one.
KNOW-HOW
We carry out the entire jewellery design process as an integrated whole - from preliminary drawings, through 3D design and validation prototyping, to manufacturing in our workshops.
We have had to overcome many technical challenges in developing, crafting and setting our jewellery. Some of the solutions we found are real technical feats, highlighting the traditional skills of master jewellers.
Our pieces are entirely handmade in France and Italy, by exceptional and prestigious craftsmen. The gold we use comes mainly from the recycling of old pieces or from remelting, thus limiting our ecological footprint.
VALUES
We create to share, to reveal the beauty of stones, of exceptional gems used in fine jewelry.
To sculpt their sensual light with radiant rays and dress the skin with lightness and transparency.
To go to the essence, to touch the heart and caress the soul and invite contemplation.
To share powerful emotions like those experienced when confronted with the paintings of the great colorists, to endure and pass on.
ORIGINS
Humans have always been fascinated by gems and precious stones. Many civilisations attribute special properties to them, vibrations tuning into the harmonies of mind and body.
The oldest body ornaments were made over 150,000 years ago. We are all holders of a part of this collective memory. Designing this collection was also a working through time, through human history and one of its oldest known forms of artistic expression.
We invite you to travel to the heart of this eternal fascination - to contemplate, hour by hour, the mesmerising spectacle offered by these jewels of the mineral world, the result of gigantic pressures and heat, shaped by billions of years of the convulsions of our earth.