January 29, 2008

La Vie on Wrist

La Vie Parisienne Bracelets

You loved. You lost. And have yet to find anything to fill the bitter hole left in your heart.

Or, more specifically, your jewelry box.

This V-Day, treat yourself to a second chance at having and holding with La Vie Parisienne charm bracelets.

Paris-born painter/designer/writer Catherine Popesco plates her raw copper molds in her Santa Monica and Loire Valley, France, workshops. Her quixotic design themes run the gamut from love (hearts and stars, fleur-de-lis) to travel (towers, coins, and compasses) and luck (clovers and horseshoes).

Each is stamped and soldered using eighteenth-century presses and French technique. The silver and gold overlay effect has just enough subtle sheen to take your status from adieu to a deux in no time.

Even if it means buying one for each wrist.

Available at Festivity, 3720 Roswell Road, Buckhead (404-816-5330); 1039 North Highland Avenue, Virginia Highland (404-874-1950).