Rose Perle Dubas, with her Bachelor collection, proposes a contemporary reinterpretation of the Swiss rural heritage through a series of sculptural jewelry pieces inspired by ancient agricultural objects.

The project originated during a semester abroad in Glasgow, where the designer encountered what she considered a reductive image of Switzerland: one of a cold, minimalist country primarily associated with technical performance. Hailing from the Valais region, she instead aims to highlight a more intimate Switzerland, shaped by agriculture, craftsmanship, and popular know-how.

Inspired by childhood memories and the many agricultural objects preserved by her grandfather over the years, the collection draws from the aesthetics of rural daily life. Cattle chains, rakes, old sack straps, and other elements from the agricultural wardrobe become the starting point for a work of transformation and interpretation.

Through seven pieces crafted in iron, 925 silver, vegetable-tanned hide, and smoky quartz, Rose Perle Dubas explores the traces left by time on objects. Wear, patina, deformations, and alterations are reproduced with precision to preserve the material memory of these artifacts and reveal their emotional weight.

Between the brutality of forms and the delicacy of details, this collection questions our relationship with inherited objects, vernacular traditions, and the memories that shape cultural identities.