Marguerite Bones is a jewellery designer and maker, mostly in Paris often in Amsterdam. She makes spiky and sharp full-gender blings that aim to be worn for a daily empowerment.
Graduated in 2019 from the jewellery department of the Rietveld Academie she actually started with graphic design at Condé, Paris. Co-funder of The Pool she worked as a journalist for CurrentObsession and community manager for ParcoursBijoux 2024.
Marguerite works on unlimited series and unique pieces that are to be found at GlamcultStore, ABCNDstore and The Pool in Amsterdam; Pluriel.le in Paris; ModeNoHigeki in Tokyo and UniversusGallery in Athens.
Marguerite likes to initiate collective project and exhibitions such as Life Soup in Munich 2020, Bisous Bijoux in Paris 2022, Jolies Choses in Paris 2023. Her work has been featured in magazines such as Vogue NL, KingKong Magazine, Glamcult, November. She's currently working on a new collective space in Paris.
Marguerite Bones
she/her
Paris, France
“Sharp, spiky, full gender blings.
Through contact with the skin Bones’ jewels activate a sentimental and symbolic charge.
Celebrating both vulnerability and strength, her pieces embody the underlying possibility of danger while inviting for freedom.”
How does your work relate to the theme connection?
“Continuing my research on the exploration of feelings, emotions and affects, I made this work at a switching moment for me, it really marked a turn in my practice and my personne. Indeed for the 3 years before I had been exploring spiky shapes exploring self-defense and therefore vulnerability. With this rings I felt I could connect with my strength, and allow distinctive parts of myself to connect as one.
The hinges connecting the 4 parts of the first ring and the 3 parts of the second offer an idea of flexibilty, it implies the necessity to hold on together and not to be static and strict as one unity would. I see hinges as body articulation. It fascinates me that hard body part as bones can find a way to entangle themselves and create movement.
Set with stones as rubies, sapphires, tourmalines or even Svarowski that I broke and melted as to play with its precious character, I believe those rings connect the cyborg and the flesh, the agressivity and the softness, in their erotic and liberating character."
What role does connection play in your creative process?
“I feel connection is often the goal in one’s research, connecting the world of idea and the material world, the connection between a very personnal reading of life and the wish to make it universal. Jewellery is for me the connective key to the world in it’s making but also in its distribution and the encounter it creates."
"Rosetech", silver 925, pink sapphire, tourmaline, zircon, rubies, melted Swarovski crystal, size 56 (US 7 3/4), 2024
"Rosetech 2", silver 925, tourmaline, zircon, rubies, melted Swarovski crystal, size 58 (US 8 1/2), 2024What connection(s) does your queerness make to the world around you?
“Jewellery brought me many « connections », friendships and even a social role that I was not expecting. Coming back to Paris 5 years ago after my coming-out it was hard for me to find a community, but unexpectingly it happenned through jewellery. Indeed it seemed like the thoughts I was putting in my pieces could talk to mindlike people, and as I developped my clientele I realiszed that my customers could become my friends and build my little community."
Anything else you would like to share about this work? This can be an important part of the process, sourcing materials, or research.
“The svaorwski are vintage, found on parisian market, the one I smashed and melted were in heart shape in the first place. The other pieces are carved in wax before being casted at my local caster Asimi. These pieces are made to order."