Robert Mazlo (born 1949) is a French art

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and

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of Lebanese origin who has been the head of the

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-based

Mazlo Mazlo is a jewellery house of Lebanese origin, established in Paris, France, since 1977. Its origins date back to the fifteenth century, when the founder of the dynasty, Georgius Sayegh el-Mazloum, left Lebanon to settle in Venice. Since the e ...

jewellery Jewellery ( UK) or jewelry (U.S.) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a wester ...

house since the late 1970s.

Early life

Robert Mazlo was born in

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, Lebanon, in 1949 in a family of goldsmiths and jewellers. After having received a first initiation within the family workshop, he left Lebanon in 1968 to study classical European jewellery in Italy at the Istituto d’Arte Benvenuto Cellini, Valenza.

Career

In 1970 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the City of Florence for the design of a piece of jewellery. After graduating, he returned to Lebanon in 1973 to found the Mazlo Workshop in

. He worked there until the start of the Lebanese civil war in 1975, when he moved permanently to Paris. Parallel to the family tradition of bespoke jewellery, he soon developed his own creative work, exhibiting in art galleries and at the FIAC. He also designed watches for

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(

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and Rockwatch), and collaborated with ST Dupont for the design of barrels and clips set with diamonds. Robert Mazlo's work appears in private and public collections worldwide including the Historisches Uhren-Museum in Wuppertal and the Deutsches Edelstein Museum of Idar-Oberstein, Germany.

Book

Mazlo wrote a book on the

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fortune-telling cards, ''The Tablets of Hermes''. He said in an interview that mediaeval painters had to study jewellery before moving to painting;

alchemy Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, ...

, considered a science at the time and interpreted in the tarot, required knowledge of stones and jewels. Mazlo said that tarot and the

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helped him a lot in designing his jewels.

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References

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External links

* Balmaceda Katrina A.
"Robert Mazlo, The memory relay"
Solitaire Magazine.com, April 2015. Retrieved on 18 July 2015. * Bustillo Deena
"Halle Berry debuts giant emerald engagement ring"
Zimbio.com, March 2012. Retrieved on 31 March 2012. * Hadley Henriette
"Oliver Martinez clears up ring debate"
Miami.com, March 2012. Retrieved on 21 March 2012. * Simon Balso
"The alchemist: Robert Mazlo"
''Men’s passion'', October 2011. Retrieved on 19 October 2011.
Mazlo's web site
French jewellery designers French people of Lebanese descent Artists from Beirut 1949 births Living people {{designer-stub