Catherine Servel de Cosmi is a multidisciplinary artist and fine jeweler based in Arles, in the south of France. She studied photography and fine art before later training professionally as a fine jeweler, a path that continues to inform her practice today. In 2019, she founded her namesake jewelry line, De Cosmi, in New York City.
Rooted in a deep reverence for the elemental nature of matter itself, Catherine’s work seeks to explore how raw materials—gold, silver, precious and semi-precious stones—can be shaped, transformed, and reimagined. Her pieces inhabit the rare space between fine art object and precious adornment, animated by an instinct for sculptural composition that is at once sensual and restrained, graphic and quietly provocative.
Her design process is guided by an insistence on integrity: each piece must feel effortless to wear while retaining the presence and vitality of a small sculpture. She often leaves the traces of her hand—marks of cutting, hammering, and polishing—as a testament to the life within the material. The result is jewelry that feels both ancestral and entirely new, with forms that seem to manifest, erupt, and blossom of their own accord.
For Catherine, jewelry is simply another language for her artistic inquiry. She continues her fine art photography alongside her jewelry practice, approaching each medium as a means to dissect and reconstruct the essence of form, volume, and light. This perspective allows her to create pieces that are as compelling displayed on a table as they are worn on the body—an invitation to experience adornment as both personal expression and enduring art.
Rooted in a deep reverence for the elemental nature of matter itself, Catherine’s work seeks to explore how raw materials—gold, silver, precious and semi-precious stones—can be shaped, transformed, and reimagined. Her pieces inhabit the rare space between fine art object and precious adornment, animated by an instinct for sculptural composition that is at once sensual and restrained, graphic and quietly provocative.
Her design process is guided by an insistence on integrity: each piece must feel effortless to wear while retaining the presence and vitality of a small sculpture. She often leaves the traces of her hand—marks of cutting, hammering, and polishing—as a testament to the life within the material. The result is jewelry that feels both ancestral and entirely new, with forms that seem to manifest, erupt, and blossom of their own accord.
For Catherine, jewelry is simply another language for her artistic inquiry. She continues her fine art photography alongside her jewelry practice, approaching each medium as a means to dissect and reconstruct the essence of form, volume, and light. This perspective allows her to create pieces that are as compelling displayed on a table as they are worn on the body—an invitation to experience adornment as both personal expression and enduring art.
“I’m always gathering - images, sounds, ideas - and then I walk into the atelier.”