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Kyo ga is a Paris-based fine jewellery brand founded by Kyoga Shimizu from Tokyo.

All jewelleries are handcrafted in Paris with precious metals and fine stones.

After studying literature in Tokyo, she moved to Europe and studied jewelry making and stone setting in Belgium, Italy, and France. Due to her studies, she obtained two French national diplomas for both.

Following her studies she started to work as a professional stone setter in a Parisian atelier for high jewellery brands. Then she worked as a jeweller for a contemporary jewellery brand in Paris and crafted many bespoke jewelries.

In her creation, there are many different aspects, sometimes even contradictory.

She respects the precision and traditional artisanal jewellery technique but she prefers not to limit herself to a classic, conventional style. All the elements she loves in her life like freeness, roughness, wildness, singularity but also stillness, delicateness, elegance and timelessness beauty. They exist at the same time in her world.

The various textures and shapes are obtained by different techniques, directly melting metals, molding, or more sculptural approaches, often totally hand-carved.

As a stone setter, Kyoga is passionate and inspired by natural stones. She creates her bespoke jewelry with carefully chosen precious stones according to each client’s wishes, even the spiritual ones.

Paris.

kyoga34@gmail.com
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