GARAUDE

On February 2023, we had the opportunity to cut Estrela de Fura, the world’s largest gem quality Ruby ever discovered. We documented this experience in order to share this journey with you.

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RUBIES
SAPPHIRES
EMERALDS
SPINELS
OTHER STONES

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THE LANGUAGE OF STONES

François Garaude continues to chart his course, he becomes a stone trader. His jewelry clients appreciate the man of heart and passion, the hunter of the exceptional …and for him, it is sometimes a regret to let go of a superb emerald, a soft pink spinel or a flamboyant Padparadscha sapphire that he would have well imagined at the heart of one of the creations that he himself began to draw.

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THE FIRST EMERALD

Back in France, François Garaude studied architecture, philosophy and cinema. Through philosophy and cinema, he reflects on a new vision of the world, as if his trip to India had suddenly put everything back together and put everything back into play, as if he suddenly wanted to look at Western culture in through another prism.

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THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE

End of the 60s: the Western world goes out of its hinges. François Garaude, from the quiet Germanopratin bourgeoisie, received this thunderclap like a whip. May 68 irresistibly called him to the open sea, to India first of all. At 16, leaving behind his scandalisez family, he hitchhiked the vast continent through Central Asia, as...

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