Jean Dean Wan “It was very brilliant and at the same time very modest” wrapped up his wife Marie-Francoise on Sunday, announcing her death from a fall on her head two weeks ago. With great tenderness but as much determination, this creative craftsman of Breton (mother’s side) and Vietnamese (father’s) descent has greatly contributed to freeing the precious gem from its traditional shackles. The one who dreamed of being a naval officer as a child was swept away by the wind of an era he fully understood, the 1960s. “Lines moved a lot in fashion and design, but not in jewelry.” he explained to us ten years ago. He was not a revolutionary, but certainly a free spirit, unconventional and unifying, who, however, started his career in a rather academic way.
He first studied painting in the decorative arts, then blacksmithing at the jewelry school in the city of Paris. At the age of 20, his father, a craftsman varnisher who…
Source: Le Figaro
