La Belle Bleue Collection
Elegance and perfection La Belle Bleue has created a collection of luxury products that have in common originality, rarity, a sense of beauty, aesthetics and perfection.
All these creations, each in their own fields, had being imagined, designed and manufactured in France " Hand Made" by the best specialist craftsmen, each in their art and for the most part Meilleur Ouvriers de France. M.O.F. That mean a recognition of a great know-how All La Belle Bleue creations are in limited and numbered editions.
COLLECTION AMBASSADOR – Christophe HAY
An exceptional product deserves an exceptional ambassador... Christophe HAY, renowned as a TOP CHEF, promotes a rich and uninhibited cooking, which sublimates the Loire region by committing to respect for the environment and local products. La Belle Bleue creations also respond to these same values by favoring the shortest possible circuits and the Loire Valley in particular. La Belle Bleue will be available for sale at the shop in the new site Hotel & SPA -5***** and 2** Restaurant - Fleur de Loire complex in Blois, on the banks of the Loire.
Christophe HAY - ** Michelin- Ambassador La Belle Bleue
DESIGNERS/CREATORS
After having created several companies and having made them prosper, in different sectors, Gérard BOCAGE wanted to give new meaning to his daily life in the light of the professional retraining of his son Vincent. The original idea was to combine a passion for beautiful things and share them with true amateurs and collectors. His passion for watchmaking and fireworks gave him the idea for the first watchmaking creation: La Belle Bleue - “Comète”
Gérard BOCAGE
After a graduate course in insurance law, Vincent wanted to redirect his young career towards a course as a gemologist. Passionate about precious stones since his childhood, he decided to join the European Institute of Gemmology in Paris and graduated top of his class. His contacts with gemologists and mineralogists worldwide now give him privileged access to rare precious stones, including in the sphere of fine jewelry. From this passion is his first original jewelry creation. La Belle Bleue – “Saturne”
Vincent BOCAGE
La Belle Bleue creations are aimed at both men and women. It is essential, even essential, that women give their opinion on the idea of the creators, in the preliminary phase, at the sketch stage, during and after the realization of the first model. Similarly, the packaging part is an important moment in the success of a project. Evelyne oversees these different stages. All the details are combed through to ensure that the final product is beautiful, pleasant to wear and corresponds to the criteria of difference sought by the man or the woman who will have chance to wear such an exceptional jewel.
Evelyne BOCAGE BULLIARD - Artistic Advisor
STRATEGY & COMMUNICATION
Jérôme CROCHET in charge of communication brings to "La Belle Bleue" his know-how in consulting and brand strategy. Its solutions are based on the analysis of the sector, humanity, with analize the customers expectations as to the relevance of the product. Jérôme, founder and director of the magazine ITINERAIRE d'UN GOURMAND, highlights the great traditional French and foreign houses in gastronomy and wine. Its magazine is present in the First Class lounges of 3 major airports: Paris Charles de Gaulle - London Heathrow - London Gatwick
Jerôme CROCHET – Strategy – Communication
THE CREATIVE ARTISTS
Versatile, the painter Jean Pierre Duriez born in Paris in 1949, exercised his talents in photography, theater and cinema before learning to paint after his meeting with PICASSO. Listed on Artprice, the artist, Jean Pierre Duriez, produced a lithograph in 10 collector's copies illustrating the watch for La Belle bleue "comète". As a fine gastronome, Jean Pierre Duriez produced a unique example of a a watch strap dedicated to La Belle Bleue -Comète, illustrating the inauguration of the Restaurant “Fleur de Loire” as a gift to Christophe HAY.
Jean Pierre DURIEZ – PAINTER ARTIST
La Belle Bleue “Comète” is the first creation in the collection. Luxury watch for men and women, it is produced in 175 copies, numbered and signed. On an idea of Gérard Bocage, collector and operator of fireworks, the Belle Bleue "Comète" was designed in Geneva during a watchmaking workshop at the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie, in the presence of Swiss famous watchmakers. The "made in France" quickly imposed itself with the involvement of the IM Institute M of Besançon then relayed by the designer Philippe LEBRU. The challenge: to create a luxury watch that is neither round nor sharp angles, elegant, daring evoking the galaxy, the starry sky and fireworks. Its Murano aventurine dial enhanced with a domed sapphire crystal gives it brilliance and depth. Mechanical with automatic winding, La Belle Bleue “comète” reveals on the back its oscillating winding, the number of the copy and the signature of the creators are engraved.
Philippe LEBRU – The « BELLE BLEUE COMETE »
This line of jewelry (pendant and earrings) was designed by Vincent, drawing on his experience in gemology and jewelry. Through this collection, Vincent wanted to combine precious stones and original creations in gold and silver. The first creation is a pendant and a pair of earrings with a Murano aventurine pearl. The meeting between Vincent and Brice AUCONIE, creative artist residing on the Edges of the Loire allowed these original creations. The pearl oscillates around an axis enclosed in circles evoking, according to the position of the head of the lucky woman, the planet Saturn and its rings. Eacj jewel is handma&de by the artist. This collection is a wink to the La Belle Bleue “Comète” watch. Other colored gemstones will enrich the “Saturn” collection shortly.
Brice Auconie - THE « BELLE BLEUE SATURNE »
>La Belle Bleue – Fleur de Loire wall clock, 40 cm wide, 45 cm high is the exact replica of La Belle Bleue “Comète”. An original creation, its production is a technological feat thanks to very sophisticated water-jet cutting equipment, able to cut glass and steel.
Its realization is the work of Lionel DUJARDIN, and his company DUJARDIN CONCEPTS, located on the banks of the Loire close to Saumur. One of the walls of the kitchens of the restaurant “Fleur de Loire” ** Michelin, in Blois will display the clock “La Belle Bleue “Fleur de Loire”. It will be able to be admired by the many gourmet customers eager to be able to visit the brigade of cooks working like ants in a space where each step is measured and timed.
