Following the Silk Road, Junlon, a Chinese Jeweler Arrives in Paris

An Chinese jeweler, Junlon,  has set up shop in the Galerie Royale, 9 rue Royale in Paris..

The store is spacious and full of light, the products are abundently exposed everywhere, the walls are white and bare - to open the mind to what the jewels evoke. The craftsmen are French but designed by Chinese and Junlon is the only Chinese brand to produce in France.

Princess Fei Earings - Uighur influence

Junlon masters all sorts of materials, faceted stones or cabochons, whether precious and semi-precious, balls, pearls, that he assembles with all the skill demanded by “haute joaillerie”. But the most striking is the excellence of his traditional worksmanship at the service of contemporary pieces, often minimalist and warm at the same time, like the store which serves as their jewelcase. His creations contain many symbols mainly stories of Silk Road.  For example, the “Four Seasons” collection of rings uses perfectly rounded cabochons, to express time past, present and future turning to infinity.

Golden Abacus - Chinese Influence

Pearls, whether baroque or not, are selected according to draconian criteria. The jewels are both delicate and full of strength. The use of a multitude of small stones, assembled with white or yellow gold, results in finger rings so thin that you can slip them on one after another, according to the day’s mood or clothing. The earrings come in various lengths, depending on the ears or the neck they will highlight.

Women and men can only be seduced, so broad is the creativity, so reasonable the prices (for the time being!

Junlon has decided to take us on a journey, with excellence and humility, through his oniric universe, born on the Silk Road.

Silk Road by Ella Maillart

Silk Road for dummies : Silk Road exists from millemia, starting from Chinese capitals like Luo Yang (Xian today) or Beijing and end in Turkey around Trabzond.or Istambul. It goes through Central Asia,through towns like Kashgar, Samarcande, Khiva, Boukkhara and others. Silk Road was the most important exchanges road between East and West before the reign of vessels and the maritime roads. It has carried from East to West  precious goods, but also technics, ideas, religions which explain that all the cities along thèse roads are a melting pot of several influences Eastern ones as well as Western ones.

Silk road is the ancestor of contemporary global economy.