The maison
Emily Rose
American-born goldsmith, working in Paris for more than twenty years. She designs solid 18k gold jewellery in small numbers, from an atelier at 14 rue de Saintonge, in the Marais.
Designed in New York, finished in France, hallmarked in France — and worn every day.
The story
Three chapters, one bench
New York
Emily started at the bench in New York, learning at a polishing wheel before moving on to the jewellers' floors of 47th Street. The Diamond District taught her the one habit that still runs the maison: knowing the price of the metal in every piece.
Paris
In Paris she found the tradition — 14 rue de Saintonge, a Marais street quiet enough to hear a file. She set up her own bench, drew the first twelve pieces, and opened the atelier-boutique.
Today
Twelve pieces a season, designed and finished by one pair of hands. Two boutiques — Paris and New York — and the same rule everywhere: solid 18k, hallmarked in France, priced as metal plus work.
The figures
20+ years
at the bench, between New York and Paris.
12 pieces
per season — the whole collection, nothing more.
2 boutiques
Paris and New York, plus the online atelier.
750 ‰
the fineness of every piece — the French legal minimum.
The tradition
Two countries, one bench
Emily is not the first American to make a career at a Paris bench. Joel Arthur Rosenthal — JAR — was born in the Bronx and built his maison in Paris. Between those two benches runs a line: American directness about price, French severity about the hallmark.
That is what the maison keeps from each side. From New York, the habit of saying what a piece costs and why. From Paris, the discipline of the title punch, the certificate, and the two signatures on every finished object.
What the two cities gave
- — New York: the price of the metal, always stated.
- — Paris: the eagle-head hallmark, always struck.
- — Both: repair it for life, never replace it quietly.
Alongside the bench
Writing for infoBijoux
Emily writes a regular column for infoBijoux, the French trade media for jewellery and watchmaking. Her subjects are market watches and trade jewellery — what sells, at what price, and why the trade moves as it does.
She covers the watch market's price dossiers and the jewellery trade's habits — the same questions she answers at the bench, written for the profession. Read her column: my articles on infoBijoux.
Subjects she covers
- — Market watch: the price dossiers of the big maisons.
- — Trade jewellery: what sells, what returns, what is re-made.
- — The gold price, read from the bench, not the newsroom.
The atelier
Where the work happens
14 rue de Saintonge. The drawings, the wax, the pour of 18k gold, the setting, the polish and the hallmark — all of it within these walls, all of it by hand.
Visit the atelierWrite to Emily
A question about a piece, a size, an engraving, or the trade itself — she answers every message within two working days.