The Founder · Geneva
Christopher Dean
Peterson II
On Objects and Form
"These are not decorative acts. They are arguments made in material, specific, considered, and answerable for their decisions."
On Form
"This is not jewelry that explains itself through heritage or mystique. It explains itself through form."
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Material · Sterling Silver · Black Rhodium
I spent years inside the logic of how designed objects shape perception. How a cut of clothing restructures the body. How pigment applied with precision reshapes a face. These are not decorative acts.
Jewelry is where that logic should continue. The body, adorned with intention, is the same conversation as the body dressed or made up.
Fine jewelry has never lacked for beauty or craft. What it struggles to sustain is a point of view that extends beyond them. Not for want of vision, but because commerciality has a way of softening edges until nothing remains that couldn't belong to anyone.
Menswear jewelry is beginning to move, but without the formal clarity I was searching for. The language I needed came from somewhere else entirely.
I found it on a suburban Geneva street, watching a gold-foiled Lamborghini pass by. Not in admiration. In recognition of a problem and, a moment later, its solution.
Automotive design cannot be vague. Every surface decision has a consequence. That accountability is what I wanted to bring back into jewelry — the same obligation to rigor I had spent years recognising in clothes and in beauty, now finding its form in metal and stone.
AMVI Cuff · Sterling Silver · Black Rhodium
Atelier CPII makes wearable sculpture informed by that logic. The AMVI Cuff is the first object. Sterling silver with black rhodium, a natural green sapphire set flush, a grille structure borrowed from automotive form, not as reference, but as principle. Fewer than three hundred will exist.
This is not jewelry that explains itself through heritage or mystique. It explains itself through form.
Former: Tom Ford Beauty
Balmain · Ralph Lauren
The AMVI Cuff.
Edition I · Fall 2026 · 300 pieces.