Art edition in 24-carat gilded bronze, realized by Maison Tisserant

A contemporary rebirth of a timeless symbol

At the meeting point of past and present, the Palmettes collection pays tribute to one of the most enduring and universal motifs in the history of decorative arts: the palmette.

A symbol of harmony, fertility, and light, it has crossed civilizations for over two millennia, continually reinvented while preserving its poetic and structural essence.

Reinterpreted by Mauricio Clavero Kozlowski, the palmette becomes an architecture of light, a sculptural expression that captures movement, rhythm, and emotion.

Each creation forges a link between ancient memory and modern design, between the brilliance of material and the resonance of form.

A journey through civilizations

The origins of the palmette can be traced to Assyrian and Mesopotamian civilizations, more than twenty-one centuries before our era, where it symbolized life, growth, and renewal.

From there, it travelled across the Mediterranean world, appearing in Egyptian and Minoan art, before finding its classical expression in ancient Greece, where it adorned Corinthian capitals, ceramics, and architectural friezes.

The motif later flourished among the Etruscans and Romans, embodying a refined sense of order and beauty, before being reinterpreted during the Persian Renaissance of the Safavid dynasty in the sixteenth century, when its forms became more stylized, floral, and ornamental.

Across these cultural transformations, the palmette has remained a universal decorative language, a bridge between nature and geometry, intuition and discipline.

It is this timeless vitality that inspires the Palmettes Contemporaines collection: a dialogue between heritage and innovation, between the traces of ancient civilizations and the creative vision of today.