Art meets Couture with Christelle Chamberland’s luxury handcrafted jewellery. The French designer makes her luxury jewellery with exquisite gemstones for women to wear in a way which is personal, spontaneous and playful, anytime of the day or night.

 To live life “fully, colourfully and playfully” is Christelle’s moto and her designs exude her appetite for life. They’re about movement and evolution, the enjoyment of the journey! Breaking down the boundaries between casual and formal, between old and new, between classic and avant-garde, her jewellery captures the moment and makes every second bright.

Her style is influenced by her travels to mystical foreign lands, particularly Morocco and India, giving her jewellery unexpected ethnic-French elegance.

Each piece is handcrafted to the highest quality standards, making it unique and lasting. It is a special gift or treat to enjoy now and to cherish forever. The custom-cut gemstones come from a family-run mining business in the Minas Gerais, Northern Brazil, and their quality is hard to match.

The essence of the gemstone jewellery collection centres on natural beauty, identity, self-belief and most importantly staying real, just like the stones themselves. Christelle’s intricate and meaningful designs combined with the vibrant sparkle of her colourful gemstones are highly seductive and give a beautiful energy to the wearer through their shine and their healing properties, too. 

Christelle was born and grew up in the beautiful French Jura mountain region which remains her spiritual home. She returns to the Jura every summer to see her family and friends and draws strength and inspiration from the natural beauty, indeed she drew the very first sketches of her Renaissance Collection during a retreat there.

In her late teens, her growing sense of adventure took her to London where she studied International Business and for 12 years she embraced living in one of the most vibrant cities in the world and enjoyed everything it had to offer. Carving out a successful career as a television news journalist and presenter for Channel Four, the BBC and Bloomberg Television, she subsequently headed the distribution arm of a leading factual documentaries production company.

‘My job as a writer and presenter was creative yet I had this yearning to create something with my hands, something more primitive than intellectual. I remember clearly the day I knew I was going to be a jewellery designer after a random visit to an independent designers shop in Islington, London. On impulse I bought an amazing silver and gold shell necklace; it was an epiphany. As I held it I knew that was what I wanted to do. I was moving to Edinburgh a month later and on arrival I applied to a jewellery making course at the Leith School of Arts – my journey had begun.'

She moved to Edinburgh with her husband in 2004 and after her baby daughter was born, she quit her media job and re-trained as a jeweller at the Leith School of Arts to fulfil her dream to design and make jewellery. Having moved into her teacher’s workshop at The Drill Hall in Leith with a couple of fellow students, she practiced her skills with silver and experimented with ideas, and became a resident of the pioneering Precious Metals Workshop. Over the years she has created numerous one-of-a-kind pieces, gradually including more gemstones as she developed her stone-setting skills. In 2014, she studied CAD design in Glasgow and set up her jewellery business with her debut collection of fine jewellery, Renaissance.

'Today, as a designer, I immerse myself in the attention to detail required with the composition and presentation of my work. A meaningful story is still important to me; I see jewellery as a wearable collaboration between the maker and the wearer, epitomising our universal connection and my designs are essentially about sharing a story which I hope will transport women and make them smile and feel sexy.’ 

'I have a passion for texture, pattern and colour and love the earthiness and strength and the paradoxical delicacy of metal, in effect its “melt-ability”. I like to mix this with the vibrancy and the power of gemstones to seduce and be seduced; a jewel can steal my heart and make me stop right there, in awe. Jewels symbolise lasting love, burning bright right now and forever more.'

The Reverso and CrescEndo collections were designed in the following years and since then Christelle has worked tirelessly to promote her collections around the United Kingdom at various fairs, galleries and in luxury boutiques such as the iconic House of Bruar in Scotland or Covet, Edinburgh.

In line with Covid restrictions, Christelle now offers private consultations by appointment in Edinburgh in a safe and relaxed environment. This new way of working is perfectly in tune with the quality of personal service and care she strives to give her clientèle. Whether you'd like to take a look at a pair of earrings or browse all the collections, discuss a private commission or get advice for a Christmas gift, booking an appointment with Christelle is the perfect way to shop. It is quite fun, too!