Madeleine Jewelry - Romania
Madeleine Jewelry
Designer biography:
Madeleine is the author jewelry brand of designer Mădălina Tudor Rădulea. Each piece is designed and hand-carved in wax, with careful attention to every detail, and then cast in silver. Every work carries a story, inspired by visual art, rich materials, ancient adornments, and organic or raw forms. Each piece is shaped with a minimalist aesthetic and produced either as a small series or as a unique object. Recycled precious metals such as silver and gold are used, so that each piece holds decades or even centuries of history, melted into a contemporary design object. Mădălina is a graduate of the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture, Product Design department, with additional studies at Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan and Barcelona, and at Istituto Marangoni in Paris.
International exhibitions:
Romanian Jewelry Week (2022–2025)
Budapest Jewelry Week (2022)
Slovenian Jewelry Week (2023)
Milano Jewelry Week (2023–2024)
Brussels Jewellery Week (2024)
Winner of the design competition Timeless Jewelry – Brașov Art Museum (2023)
Roma Jewelry Week (2024)
Venice Jewelry Week (2024)
Collection concept:
This collection of talismans is rooted in an ancestral language—that of Tuareg jewelry—where every form carries meaning, and every line becomes protection, guidance, or memory. It is not a replica, but a reverence: a contemporary interpretation of a tradition in which metal is not merely matter, but a bearer of belief. I have preserved the essential: simple geometry, engraved symbols, the balance between void and form. Yet I have allowed space for the breath of the present—for personal gesture, for the intimacy of the one who wears the talisman. Each piece thus becomes an object of passage: between interior and exterior, between the visible and the invisible. It is not merely a form, but a fragment of stillness, an anchor, a sign.
