DINH VAN
Born in 1927 near Paris, Jean Dinh Van wanted to be a sailor. Fortunately for women, under the influence of his father, an artisan lacquerer, he decided to create jewelry. After studying at the Beaux-arts de Paris, he learned the trade of artisan jeweler at Cartier, and began a love affair with metal. This experience gave him a very personal vision of luxury and beauty.
In the mid-60s, tired of fashioning flowers and panthers for socialites and aristocrats, he wanted to bring jewelry to the streets. He took an interest in his era, in everything that was new: ready-to-wear by Paco Rabanne and Pierre Cardin, furniture by Knoll, advertising by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. As part of a group of designers, he aspires to more modernity and wants to free jewelry from the constraints of preciousness. His ambition was to create jewelry that could be worn every day by women in the throes of emancipation.
That's how Jean Dinh Van founded his company in 1965 on Place Gaillon, not far from Rue de la Paix. An iconoclast, he invented essential, personal, everyday jewelry. He reverses the jewellery approach, creating jewels that are more for those who wear them than for those who look at them.
Composition
The creations dinh van are made of 925 fineness silver (known as Sterling silver or solid silver. The House dinh van protects most of its silver jewellery with a thin layer of rhodium.
Silver is a softer metal than gold: shocks and scratches will therefore be more quickly visible on the surface of the jewel; The latter will develop a patina over the course of its life and wear, creating its unique charm.
We recommend avoiding shocks and the risk of scratches that could alter the appearance of your jewelry.
We recommend that you avoid wearing your jewellery in accumulation, which can be damaged by friction.