Pen Mané’s Founders On Why They Chose Silver for High Jewelry

PARIS — High jewelry immediately evokes visions of sparkling gemstones set aglow by yellow gold or throwing icy lights from their platinum surfaces.

But for freshly established jewelry brand Pen Mané, the gleam coming from its sculptural designs isn’t from either precious metal — it’s silver.

For Hong Kong -based cofounders Vincent Guy-Raffin, a jewelry industry veteran of 20 years who serves as the brand’s artistic director, and Calvin Wang, a luxury retail consultant and brand strategist who is the company’s managing director, it was not a choice born out of compromise.

“We use any materials that will best serve our artistic mission,” said Guy-Raffin, who counts as a mentor the elusive jeweler Joel-Arthur Rosenthal, best known as JAR.

And the mission that the pair, who are partn