Designers - Patrice Fabre

As a young student in the seventies, Patrice Fabre travelled from France to India and Katmandu where he grew a long abiding interest in gemstones. There, he spent three months with a community of jewellers learning from them the magic of forging and tempering metal. On his return, a Parisian jeweller fell in love with his work and started ordering new pieces from him, in gold and silver, while giving him the opportunity to learn how to set, solder and mix different metals.