The Jewelry Art To See At PAD Paris

For Carpenter's Workshop Jewelry, French-Lebanese jeweler Walid Akkad has created a bestiary of 21 highly stylized animal rings, drawing on wide-ranging cultural references from La Fontaine's fables to the Zodiac. Neither naturalistic nor twee, he has taken a single characteristic of each to sculpt a minimalist representation in highly polished rose gold, creating a collection that is true to his sculptural style, in which the body plays a role in its own adornment.