Gilles Jonemann

Gilles Jonemann, born in Geneva in 1944, is one of the great historical figures of contemporary jewelry.

His work, based on natural elements and so-called geometric or synthetic elements, focuses on highlighting the materials in contact with each other. An exotic nut, a piece of earthenware, a piece of polished glass, an iron nail head—it is his eye that extracts these small banalities of everyday life and travel and, by combining them in space and on the body, gives them a lightness, a poetry, an elegance. Working on every detail with an obsession for balance and an ever-inventive mind, Jonemann strives to make these materials precious in the eyes of the world..

Gilles Jonemann has always been very interested in education. He has been involved in the design of various schools and was a founding member of the Ateliers de Fontblanche in Vitrolles and Nîmes. He ran the jewelry workshop from 1977 to 1995. He also taught at the Haute école d'Art appliqué du canton de Neuchâtel in La Chaux-de-Fonds, as well as at the Ecole des Arts décoratifs in Geneva (now HEAD). In France, he gave various lectures at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris. He was regularly commissioned to develop creative programs in the Indian Ocean, Africa, Central America, and elsewhere.

Named Master of Art in 2004, Jonemann has received numerous awards throughout his career.
He has collaborated extensively with Hermès Petit H and Issey Miyake. Since the late 1960s, his work has been featured in numerous exhibitions.

After a long and fruitful collaboration with Naïla de Monbrison, Gilles Jonneman chose MiniMasterpiece gallery as his new showcase in December 2025.