About

Mémoire des formes

Carlota Conde draws jewellery the way others draw objects. Furniture, architecture and forms that have outlived their era shape her language of curves, materials and visual memory, built between Paris and Guéthary.

Drawing came first. Her father is a painter, and she grew up close to fashion through her mother. That path led her to London and Central Saint Martins, then to Paris, where she trained at Lanvin and in the jewellery and accessories studio of Christian Dior Couture. Since 2017 she has designed jewellery and accessories at Celine, rising from assistant to senior designer.

Each collection begins with research: images, objects, furniture, buildings. Sooner or later one idea takes hold, circles within circles, stacked forms, volumes that answer one another, and she follows it through antique objects, books, auctions and archives until a whole world has grown around it.

Her eye returns to the 1970s, pared back yet built. Trends leave her indifferent; what is truly beautiful, she believes, becomes timeless. Paris gives her momentum and new shapes. Guéthary is where she slows down and draws.

“I love jewellery as objects.”

Celine

Jewellery and accessories, since 2017

Christian Dior Couture

Jewellery and accessories studio, 2015 to 2016

Lanvin

Jewellery and accessory design, 2015