“The origin of the Kulubá jewelry collection—necklaces, earrings, and brooches—can be traced back to a small sketch that has been pinned to one of the walls of my studio for several years.
A simple sketch drawn in black marker on plain paper—the kind you might doodle spontaneously during long phone conversations: an arrangement of small squares and rectangles of varying sizes, placed side by side, forming an irregular grid that creates its own outline, inscribed within an almost oblong shape.
It was while reworking this sketch into a more controlled line drawing that this irregular grid became the pattern that forms the basis of each piece of jewelry. This openwork grid proved to be the ideal canvas for incorporating small, randomly arranged colored areas within it—adding vibrancy and further refinement—a technique reminiscent of the cloisonné method used in goldsmithing.
This design, which was originally created without any specific purpose or destination in mind, turned out to be the unexpected foundation for this new jewelry collection designed for the Minimasterpiece gallery.”
Pierre Charpin, Spring 2026
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Pierre Charpin turned his attention to jewelry in 2018 with the Gioielli collection during his first collaboration with MiniMasterpiece.
For Pierre Charpin, jewelry has remained an activity on the periphery of his main work as a designer and visual artist, even though it incorporates some of the fundamental elements of his artistic approach. This is precisely the great challenge and ambition of artist-made jewelry: to think on an entirely new scale and for the body, without losing a single shred of its more monumental artistic DNA.
The jewelry dialogue resumed during the winter of 2024, and a new collection will be unveiled in September 2026 at the gallery during the solo exhibition Kulubá—the name of a Mayan archaeological site discovered in 1939, whose aerial view, with its countless intersecting alleys, evokes the design of the jewelry.
This exhibition is part of the Paris Design Week 2026 program.