Jacques An-Lanh Paris Modernist Parure

From the rarefied world of Parisian haute couture, a set that looks like modern sculpture and wears like jewelry. Jacques An-Lanh is a name known to serious couture-jewelry collectors and almost no one else — a celebrated Paris designer and artisan whose work turns up rarely and never quietly. This necklace, bracelet, and earring suite is worked entirely in brass, dimensional and architectural in form, set with faceted amber glass that catches light with a deep, fiery glow you can see moving across the photographs. Every piece is signed An-Lanh Paris on a cartouche. There’s an honest patina to the brass — the mark of an object that has lived — and it only deepens the modern-art feeling. This is jewelry for someone who reads a room and wants to be the most interesting thing in it, not the most expensive. Couture in the truest sense: made by hand, made to provoke.