He celebrates the art of narrative jewelry, the famous diamond heart earrings.
With Dédale, The School of Jewelry Arts Pursues an editorial adventure where literature is read in the light of stones and decorative arts. Launched in May 2025 in co-edition with the Franco Maria Ricci house, the collection brings back to circulation texts whose imagination dialogues with the universe of jewelry. For this end of 2025, it welcomes a fourth title: Madame de, by Louise de Vilmorin.
Published in 1951 in The Revue de Paris Before joining Gallimard, this story stands out for the clarity of its theme. Louise de Vilmorin, then a renowned figure in literary life, builds a delicate plot around a pair of diamond earrings, presented to a wife and then secretly sold off to pay off debts. The object circulates, provoking misunderstandings and concealments, and reveals the tensions between marital duty, desire, and the cult of appearances. Through this piece of jewelry, the author sketches a precise portrait of Parisian society, attentive to external signs and the silences they conceal.
This edition opens with a preface by Patrick Mauriès and an introduction by Emmanuelle Amiot, whose perspective as an art historian sheds light on the textual social and symbolic issues. The original illustrations by Laurent de Commines, inspired by the 1950s and executed in acrylic ink, accompany the reading with a play of full-page spreads and discreet vignettes.
With Madame de, Dédale confirms his vocation: to bring literary text and precious object into dialogue, revealing the narrative and symbolic charge that the jewel holds when it becomes an actor in the narrative.
Visual emphasized © Illustration by Laurent de Commines
