Maud De Rijck
Carl's sister · Architect & jewellery maker
Based in Brussels, Maud De Rijck is an architect and jewellery maker. Trained in architecture at La Cambre and in jewellery at the RHoK Academie under Peter Vermandere, she creates contemporary jewellery where the body, the senses and matter engage in dialogue - in collections such as "Too sensitive" or her bracelets dedicated to women Nobel laureates. The daughter of painter Charline Mahy and sculptor Mon De Rijck, she carries on the family's artistic legacy in her own way.
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Curriculum
The key dates of Maud De Rijck's journey, year by year.
8 milestone(s) · Open the chapterArchitect and jewellery maker
"Based in Brussels, Maud De Rijck is an architect and jewellery maker." Trained in architecture at La Cambre (1989-1994, "Criticism and theoretical research" option), she completed her studies with an International Seminar of Urban Architecture (ERASMUS summer programme, Brussels, 1989-1992), a European summer construction internship in the Netherlands (1990), an Erasmus at the Politecnico di Milano (1993-94) and a year as a free student at the E.T.S.A. in Seville (1994-95).
Open the chapterWith Carl
Alongside her own career, Maud De Rijck supported her brother's path by reworking the architecture of two iconic Brussels nightlife venues: first the Who's Who's Land theatre, then The Wood in the Bois de la Cambre.
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2006 - "Pavillon de chasse" in the Bois de la Cambre: execution drawings
Dated 30 March 2006, the 1:400 site plan for the "Pavillon de chasse" in the Bois de la Cambre - chemin de la Meute, at the corner of avenue de Flore, 1000 Brussels - is signed by architects Maud De Rijck and G. Lecomte (rue Van Elewyck 39, 1050 Brussels), for the client SIMDECO sprl (avenue des Éoliennes 15, 1200 Brussels).
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1993 - La Lanterne: "A globe for Earth Day"
"Brussels twins recreate the Earth": on 18 April 1993, La Lanterne devoted its front page and a "region" feature to Maud and Kim De Rijck (22), putting the finishing touches, in the garage of the family home on avenue Georges Henri in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, to a globe 1.50 metres in diameter.
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"Too sensitive" collection
The "Too sensitive" collection explores the senses - including the lesser-known ones - through jewellery: "Odorat originel" (brooch), "Goût papilliforme" (ring), "Goût Darwinien" (spoon necklace), "Odorat sorcier.e" (brooch in hair, epoxy and stainless steel), "Toucher doudou" (comforter), "Ouïe osselet" (patinated silver brooches), "Thermoception-Nociception" (object), "Vue d'abeille" and "Vue cristalline" (brooches), "Goût nounours" (photo), "Goût sucré" (ring) and "Equilibrioception" (object).
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6 bracelets collection - women Nobel laureates
A collection of six bracelets pays tribute to women Nobel laureates: Marie Curie (1903), Nadine Gordimer (1991), Rigoberta Menchú (1992), Ada Yonath (2009), May-Britt Moser (2014) and Esther Duflo (2019).
1 document(s) · Open the chapter"Les oubliées du Nobel" - L'Echo, summer 2023
During the summer of 2023, the newspaper L'Echo paid tribute to the "forgotten women of the Nobel Prize": six remarkable women to whom Maud De Rijck dedicated her bracelet collection. Six articles by Simon Brunfaut, published weekly from 22 July to 26 August 2023, each devoted a full page to a laureate and the bracelet created in her honour: Marie Curie (22/07), Nadine Gordimer (29/07), Rigoberta Menchú (05/08), Ada Yonath (12/08), May-Britt Moser (19/08) and Esther Duflo (26/08).
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RHoK Expo - "Juweelontwerp / Edelmetaal"
The Edelmetaal workshop of the RHoK Academie, where Maud De Rijck trained as a jeweller, showed her work at the RHoK Expo "Hedendaags juweelontwerp / Contemporary jewellery / Bijou contemporain", from 19 to 22 June (Generaal Tombeurstraat 57 and Edouard de Thibaultlaan 2, 1040 Etterbeek).
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Pieces and collections
Among her other creations shown online: "Le scarabée" (book - brooch - necklace), "Le Rocher de l'Aigle" (brooch), "Diamant" (brooches and rings), "Topographie du quotidien" (necklace and soaps), "Etna" (brooch), "Attrape-souris" (brooches), "Urban protect" and "Urban kit" (brooches), "Bracelet texturé cuir", "Darwin" (spoon), "Bijou ethnique" (ear jewellery), "Fragment de peau" (bracelet), "Topographie auriculaire" (ear jewellery) and "Casa de musica" (ring).
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Archives
Documents and photographs from Maud De Rijck's family archives.
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