Pectoral necklace in homage to the singer Nina Simons, large rigid torque in silver ending with two balls, triangular pendant connected to the necklace by a fixed rod and decorated with graphic motifs with scrolls, triangles, circles and ovoid motifs, in silver and yellow gold, set with a large faceted navette labradorite, pink tourmaline cabochons, amethyst and black star diopside, a round-cut amethyst and two navette-cut peridots, 2024, hallmarked, unique piece, signed, and titled on the reverse "Pour Nina Simons, I put a spell on you"

 A French-Italian artist from the town of Merano in the Trentino-Alto Adige region, her atypical technique serves a very personal, fanciful and original expression.
 In 1970, Linda Ladurner studied under the painter Corneille at the Salzburg Summer Academy, whose spontaneous abstraction, imbued with the colours of a vivid nature, had a profound impact on her. She had found her style. Her jewellery art reinterprets this spontaneous play of shapes that she cuts out of gold and silver, and sets with stones like free collages of materials. As a young jeweller, Linda left for London and joined the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, where she became a dresser in the late 1970s. She toured the world, in Asia, particularly in Korea and Japan. Then she moved to Paris in the early 1980s, before opening her own workshop on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest, close to this nature that particularly inspires her with music. Thus springs forth in his creations, a lyricism where sequenced visions are revealed, like tracking shots whose reading stretches out in a loop, with suspended sentences and an unfinished gesture to leave the dreamer-spectator the luxury of melting into an unknown time. The call of geometry intervenes first as a space of contemplation, then the idea of a timeless rhythm continues, that of the plant bud become mineral, which unfolds at length.
 Linda Ladurner also draws inspiration from various cultures and eras: Jugendstil from Klimt to Otto Wagner, Art Deco and finally the Bauhaus.
 She only creates unique pieces, dedicated to each woman who inspires her, like here the talisman necklace for Nina Simons. "Straight lines to take up the rigor of artistic work, swirls to represent the wind, and arrows to the right for the aspiration to freedom," writes Linda Ladurner. Then she explains her creative process: "I wanted to create a piece of jewelry that she could have worn on stage; I chose a very wide necklace inspired by the 70s and I added a pendant. The central stone could not be smooth; it had to represent the tormented character of Nina Simons. I chose this multi-faceted labradorite that was not "perfect"; it has a crack on the side. It is interesting because it is imperfect. I set the largest amethyst upside down, stones that could express the annoyance, the rage, the anger that shone through in her singing and made it sublime. I added a "black star" diopside, it seems appropriate to me and this stone has a particularity, depending on the angle of the light, you can see a moving cross, in homage to her mother who was a Methodist minister. Her little Eunice sang and played the piano during mass, already at the age of four! "