After almost ten years spent working for the greatest jewelry houses of the Place Vendôme in Paris, Héloïse Schapiro decided in 2019 to launch Héloïse & Abélard : a jewelry brand that designs rings and necklaces out of recycled diamonds only.

What if, instead of constantly looking for new gemstones to mine out of the depths of the Earth, we focused on using those that have already been extracted? That is, in short, the mission that Héloïse Schapiro set for herself a little over two years ago, inspired by the century-old tradition of dismantling and reassembling jewelry pieces, and determined to revive our emotional relationship with diamonds. Today, Héloïse & Abélard – her company, named after the legendary medieval love story between a teacher and his student in 12th century Paris – offers its customers two types of services: on the one hand, bringing old family stones up to date. On the other hand, creating original pieces out of recycled stones which she is constantly on the lookout for. The end goal: to ensure that all diamonds get worn, and thus way spare the planet a particularly polluting extraction process.

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Après une dizaine d’années passées chez les plus grands joailliers de la Place Vendôme, Héloïse Schapiro lançait il y a deux ans Héloïse & Abélard : une maison de joaillerie exclusivement consacrée à l’usage de diamants recyclés.

Et si au lieu de partir à la recherche de nouvelles pierres précieuses au fin fond de la Terre, on se servait plutôt de celles qui ont déjà été extraites ? C’est en résumé la mission que s’est fixée Héloïse Schapiro il y a un peu plus de deux ans, inspirée par la tradition centenaire du démontage et remontage des pierres précieuses, et décidée à raviver notre rapport sensible aux diamants. Aujourd’hui, Héloïse & Abélard – le nom de son entreprise, ainsi baptisée en référence à la légendaire histoire d’amour médiévale entre un professeur et son étudiante dans le Paris du XIIème siècle – propose à ses clients deux types de service : d’une part, la remise au goût du jour de vieux bijoux de famille. D’autre part, la création de pièces originales à partir de pierres recyclées, qu’elle chine elle-même au quotidien. L’idée étant toujours la même : faire en sorte que les bijoux se transmettent à nouveau et au passage épargner à la planète un processus d’extraction particulièrement polluant.

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In September 2021, Joris Bruneel opened Babel, a hotel-restaurant with 31 rooms and 70 seats in the heart of Belleville, designed as a tribute to the cultural, economic and creative wealth of this Paris neighborhood where he has been living for eight years.

Candied lamb gyozas, hot chocolate with a hint of zaatar, and around thirty rooms designed as so many invitations to travel… Launched a few months ago by Joris Bruneel, president of the MyHotels hotel group, and Franco-Afghan chef Clarie Fera-Akram, the Babel hotel thinks of both its cuisine and its decor (the work of French interior designer Daphné Desjeux) as a celebration of Belleville’s multiculturalism. Committed to making this new project of his an integral part of this northeastern Paris neighborhood life, Bruneel has been deploying at Babel a variety of initiatives in the hope to serve its inhabitants as well as its local economy: a menu filled with products coming from close-by shops, an employment policy that insists on recruiting workers that are either local and/or slowly reintegrating society, as well as a room made permanently available for emergency housing needs.

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