Wild Garden

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Nouvel Héritage, we are unveiling an exclusive capsule of ten Mood bangles inspired by a theme that is deeply personal and profoundly meaningful to me: the Wild Garden.

This inspiration blossoms directly from the gardens we’ve cultivated at the heart of our two French ateliers. These vegetable patches are more than ornamental—they embody our commitment to sustainability and biodiversity. Designed with care and conscience, they provide sanctuary for pollinators like bees, whose preservation is essential to the balance of our ecosystem.

Our gardens are living spaces. They do not simply surround us—they nourish us, both literally and metaphorically. They are a gesture of generosity as much as they are a reminder of our responsibility. At harvest time, they offer abundance in the form of baskets we share with our teams—fresh produce that connects us back to the rhythms of the earth.

This connection is not new to me. It is part of my heritage. On my father’s side, my grandmother tended her rose bushes with tenderness and pride. I remember the hours I spent in her garden, trimming branches, inventing adventures with my sister under the fig tree. On my mother’s side, the garden was vast, a little overwhelming perhaps, nestled among fields. My grandparents grew everything: lettuces, peppers, peaches, melons. My mother, as a child, ate almost exclusively what was grown, foraged, raised or hunted. I remember feeling small in that garden, dwarfed by the wild vitality of nature. It was structured, yes—but never completely tamed. The rules belonged to nature. Plants sometimes fell ill, insects nested where they pleased, and wild grasses took over in a matter of days. We didn’t control nature—we coexisted with it.

I’ve carried this passion with me, even in cities like Paris and New York, where space is scarce. In 2020, I transformed my balcony into a small urban garden, growing tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini—and even a sunflower that reached over two meters tall, from seeds I had collected by hand.

This is what we wanted to express through the Wild Garden capsule. A tribute not only to nature, but to what it teaches us: patience, humility, wonder. A tribute, too, to transmission—the desire that one day, my children might play beneath a fig tree of their own, or gather greens from their own patch of soil.

Each of the ten bangles in the collection is infused with these memories. Two are adorned with motifs of fruits—lemon and pomegranate—both of which grew in my grandparents’ gardens. Another, The Quiet Seeker, evokes the humble bramble: often dismissed as invasive, yet deeply rich in beauty and function. It shelters insects, stabilizes soil, produces blackberries we used to gather with my sister and grandfather. The name invites you to imagine a hidden creature seeking refuge in its shade—its thorns protective, its presence quietly generous.

The Meadow Wanderer brings a different interpretation—an Art Deco aesthetic, with geometric patterns of diamond and onyx inspired by stepping stones set into the grass. It’s the path that lets us explore, gently, without disturbing the wildness.

And then there are two tributes to the bees, The Bee-sy Bee and The Honey Gatherer. These pieces are delicate, with raised floral engravings, dotted with diamonds like tiny drops of dew. They honor the hive in our garden, where we gather small batches of honey—a gift from nature, earned through care.

With this collection, we invite you into our garden. Not a manicured escape, but a living place, wild and wondrous. A space where stories are seeded, where memories take root, and where beauty reminds us of what matters most.

Because at Nouvel Héritage, we believe that beauty is not something we impose—it’s something we protect. Something we pass down. Something that shapes tomorrow.

Beauty Shapes Tomorrow.