ALL ITEMS OF SERGE THORAVAL ARE MADE IN FRANCE, AND FINISHED BY HAND IN THE WORKSHOP. ONE BY ONE, DEDICATED CRAFTMEN COME AND JOIN AS ASSISTANCE TO SERGE. BEEING SELF-THAUGHT, SERGE HAS AN INTUITIVE WAY OF WORKING AND ETCHING THE METAL, UNUSUAL IN JEWELLERY, HIS JEWELLERY BECOMES TATOOS ONE CAN NOT GIVE UP, BEARER OF MESSAGES, THOUGHTS, CONFIDENCES, REFLECTED IMAGES, CONFESSIONS OR COMPLICITIES, ALMOST LIKE A SECOND SKIN. ALL THE STRENGH IN THIS WORK COMES FROM HIS POETIC, INTIMATE WORLD ETCHED ON BEATEN, WRESTLED METAL BENT INTO SENSUAL SHAPES; HAMMERED GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE, DELICATE MESH BRACELETS AND RINGS, MIXTURE OF CRISTAL AND STONES. FOR THOSE WHO BUY IT, FOR THOSE WHO RECEIVE IT, THE MESSAGE IS IMMEDIATLELY FILLED WITH A PERSONEL, INTIMATE MEANING.