The best jewelry stores Pyrénées-Orientales

Suddenly, our eyes were drawn to a storefront that stood out from the rest in the heart of the old village's colorful alleyways. All the objects in this store are unique and handcrafted by designers, including the beautiful brass jewelry created by Emilie and Inaki, who welcome you with a heartfelt smile. First noticed at local markets, these two artisans of the beautiful and refined have decided to open their own treasure chest. We also love the ready-to-wear and accessories that reflect the same spirit. A real favorite!

A beautiful front, exhibition of jewellery for all tastes and budgets, which encourage to return in the shop. Inside the welcome is charming, that you ask to watch a simple pair of earrings in the first prices or the beautiful crisp alliance of diamonds and emeralds, the smile and cordiality is the same. Members of the Brotherhood of Garnet of Perpignan, Gil and Jean leave us speechless mouth of admiration in front of their creations garnet fascinating and contemporary.

A family business created in 1965 by Louis Bonafos, it is today his two sons, Marcel and Didier Bonafos, who, side by side in their workshop, perpetuate the know-how of Catalan Garnet. It is in the purest tradition that they carry out the ancestral gestures to give the garnet all its letters of Catalan nobility. A shop-workshop, certainly a little off-center, but which kept a soul of former days. Real craftsmen and jewelers, who not only make jewelry, but also make transformations and repairs.

Jean Paulignan is Master Craftsman, a member of the Brotherhood of Garnet Catalan, working in his studio, located in Thuir, next to his daughter who one day rich in know-how, will in turn resume the reins of this family company created in 1946. With regard to jewellery, he realizes all our dreams of jewelry: Catalan jewels, gold jewelry, or precious stones or stones.

Who did not dream of owning a single piece, a jewel created for nothing alone, or even imagined… the Gourgot are artisan jewellers jewellers for three generations, especially the "Garnet of Perpignan". As a showcase, many of their creations are found, and in workshop they also make all the transformations of possible and unimaginable jewelry, and if you do not have many ideas, let yourself guide, they will make wonders. The jewellery also repairs and maintains your jewellery.

A graduate of the Ecole du Louvres and the Institut National de Gemmologie, Maxime cut his teeth in the workshop of the prestigious Maison Boucheron. He has now taken over the family workshop (his father, a jeweler, was president of the Confrérie du Grenat for 22 years), Maxime offers customized, personalized jewelry with inventive, contemporary shapes. He creates, transforms and repairs, and believe us, his exceptional and rarely equaled know-how becomes accessible.

Bijouterie Calvet, founded in 1804, is the oldest jewelry workshop in the department. A member of the Confrérie du Grenat de Perpignan and the Institut du Grenat, Calvet invites you to visit its traditional, authentic Catalan garnet jewelry workshop and museum. Perpignan garnet is emblematic of the Pyrénées Orientales region. Catalan tradition, faithfully followed by the Calvet jewelers, dictates that jewelry must be made of 18-carat gold. Jewelry repair, transformation and custom creations.