Celine (°1980) has been a jewellery designer and gemologist for more than 20 years. In 2025, she received the Monaco Glamour Award in beautiful Monte-Carlo, a recognition for her timeless jewellery designs, outstanding craftsmanship and quality. Since then, she has been very active on the Côte d'Azur as a private high-end jeweler. 10 years earlier, she made it to the finals of the international jewellery competition HRD Awards with her gold and diamond asparagus hat.
She is also the inspiration behind several collections including The Goldbeetle and Adeline. In addition to her permanent collections, she creates unique tailor-made pieces for her international clientele.
Celine is a creative jack-of-all-trades. As a child, she won numerous drawing and performance competitions and jumped from one stage to another for theater and music performances. Art and creativity were perhaps her first words. As a child, Celine spent a lot of time in her parents' jewellery workshop in Oudenaarde and the family business resulted in a great passion for unique jewellery.
After a year of studying graphic design, the passion for making jewellery really started to take over. Celine wanted to learn the trade and switched to a goldsmith-jewellery design course in Antwerp (Belgium). After her training, she did internships at various foreign workshops (Italy, Germany, ...) and at the Diamond Club. She graduated as a Certified Gemologist & Diamond Grader at the High Council for Diamonds in Antwerp (Belgium) where her passion for niche coloured stones arose.
Celine is very passionate about her work. She specializes in extremely rare and, as she says herself: intensely fiery coloured stones. Just think of spinel, Padparadscha sapphire, mandarin garnet, indigolite, Paraiba tourmaline, rubellite or Santa Maria aquamarine.
She explains: "I work in a very meticulous way and always raise the bar. I strive to create irresistible and unique masterpieces for my clients by combining gemstones with pure craftsmanship and attractive design."
Celine gets her inspiration from the image of strong women. With her unique and colourful jewelry, she wants to give women that extra bit of finesse and strength in their busy, challenging and exciting lives. "It's so nice when a customer can find exactly that one colour that emphasizes her personality even more," says Celine.
When designing her creations, Celine resolutely opts for colour. Top quality coloured gemstones and durability are at the top of the list. A quest that takes her to the farthest corners of the world.
"All my jewellery designs revolve around colour," she explains passionately. "People often mistakenly think that coloured gemstones are inferior. However, the opposite is true, the most beautiful specimens are much rarer and more precious than diamonds. The search for the right gemstone can take months. My suppliers know that I am very demanding. I want to offer my customers only the most beautiful and rarest pieces."
Recently Celine launched her first international jewelry project THE GOLDBEETLE. The brand name is inspired by the rare and golden beetle - Chrysina resplendens who lives in Costa Rica. The beetle is an ancient talisman that brings luck, wisdom, respect and protection to the wearer. Each lucky beetle is designed by Celine and has it’s own name and meaning. These wearable art pieces are set with selected and very rare gems such as tsavorite, Royal purple garnet, indicolite, aquamarine, mandarin garnet or tourmaline. They are handcrafted by the best artisans in Valenza, Italy where Celine took a stage more then 20 years ago.
