René Boivin

Unique pieces for jewelry connoisseurs.

In 1890, René Boivin founded his company in Paris, rejecting the era’s delicate Art Nouveau proportions in favor of chunky jewels inspired by the Middle East and Asia. Luminaries of fashion, art, and academia—Edgar Degas, Jean Hugo, Cole Porter, Sigmund Freud, and Cecil Beaton—were clients. When René died in 1917, his wife Jeanne Poiret, sister of couturier Paul Poiret, took over, hiring Suzanne Belperron, who conceived many of the company’s iconic creations, sensual and generous, with texture and dimension. Most were commissioned pieces and were almost never signed. They are just as singular today as they were in their time—and highly desirable.