Bernard Delettrez is something of a cypher. A very quiet, traveling man who prefers to let the jewelry he has designed for the past thirty years speak for itself. Yet the less he says, the more you want to know, especially when looking at the unique pieces which spill out from his soft black suede roll-up bags: One-of-a-kind skulls carved in recycled pink coral from Indonesia or in ebony wood from Kenya, resting on intricate gold rings, infinitely refined chains, laced with keys and skeletons, bold crosses circling the wrist, butterfly earrings or scarabs dangling from fine gold rope rings. And the stones. Delettrez is always willing to go that extra mile by mixing a prize gem with something complex and new as long as it fascinates him. Born in Casablanca to a Moroccan mother and a French father, Delettrez grew up loving the scent of henna and curcuma from the kitchen. His father was an prospecting oil in the Moroccan desert, but when Bernard was six, the family moved to Paris as a base and traveled extensively.
