Roger Lucas (Canadian, b. 1936), Bracelet, circa 1969, gold, diamonds

Audio Description

This gold and diamond bracelet was made by Canadian jeweler Roger Lucas around 1969. Lucas was born in 1936.

This solid bracelet is made of yellow gold and it is textured on all its surfaces. It has many flat, square-ish and triangular pieces of gold that stick out from the round bracelet that goes around the wrist. The faces of some of these flat pieces of gold at the center front are embellished with many small, faceted diamonds set side by side.

Label Copy

This gold and diamond bracelet bracelet was made by Canadian jeweler Roger Lucas around 1969. Lucas was born in 1936.

Roger Lucas was the son of a French jeweler who settled in Montreal, Canada, in the 1930s. Joining with his brother, Michel, they took charge of the firm in 1968. Both wanted to make this long-standing enterprise appeal to a younger audience. Roger, the designer, artist, and more avant-garde of the two, was particularly interested in promoting a jewelry-as-art concept. While Michel handled the financial aspects of the firm, Roger’s ambition was to gain an international reputation as an innovative jeweler.

Creating unique pieces, Lucas’s more romantic examples are a result of his love of the sea. But he also designed rather cerebral pieces that tended to be geometric in nature. This bracelet is completely angular—all elbows and knees—with sharp edges jutting out in textured gold, while close-set diamonds ornament some of the forward-facing flat planes.

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