L’Escarboucle

L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts has opened its very first bookshop, L’Escarboucle. Dedicated to the world of jewelry, the bookshop is located in the Hôtel de Mercy-Argenteau, a stone’s throw from theaters. Its poetic, enigmatic name is derived from the Latin word carbunculus (small embers), once used to designate precious stones of a fiery red hue: exceptional rubies, spinels, and garnets. 

The store carries some three thousand French and foreign-language works on jewelry, jewelry designers, requisite savoir-faire, gemology, applied arts, and aesthetic evolutions over the course of time. Connoisseurs will find the most recent publications as well as out-of-print collector’s editions on the bookshop’s shelves alongside older works like Jean-Baptiste Tavernier’s Les Six Voyages, in which the seventeenth-century diamond dealer recounts his adventures. The shop reading alcove offers an ideal setting for customers to peruse these rare editions at their leisure.

Practical information
The bookshop L’Escarboucle is open Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 
Hôtel de Mercy-Argenteau 
16 bis boulevard Montmartre, 75009 Paris

L’Escarboucle will open a new bookshop this fall in Geneva’s Old Town. 

The new bookshop will occupy the historic location that once housed LetuBooks, the art bookshop founded in 1973 that contributed to Geneva’s cultural influence for over half a century. L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts is delighted to perpetuate this legacy and to continue nurturing the curiosity of lovers of art, jewelry and gemstone enthusiasts.

L’Escarboucle, the bookshop of  L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts 
Rue Jean Calvin 2ter
CH - 1204 Geneva

Daniel Mitchell, a Man from Near and Far 

With his round spectacles, indefinable accent, extensive knowledge, and power of persuasion, Daniel Mitchell is a recognized figure in the world of art books. After seventeen years at a leading art bookstore, he has embarked upon a new journey with the creation of this bookstore specialized in jewelry for L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts. A one-of-a-kind venture, indeed!

The curious, cosmopolitan Brasilia native brings together the ardor of a Brazilian with the calm of a Scot. He studied cultural management in Lisbon and art history at the Louvre Museum and honed his vision of jewelry alongside his stepfather, owner of an auction house in Monaco. But when faced with the choice of becoming an expert, a dealer, or an auctioneer, the discerning aesthete opted for the complicity of books over the mercantile atmosphere of the auction house.