Description

43 avenue de l’Opera

Specialties

Manufactured for

• Boucheron
• Chaumet
• Osterag
• Kirby
• Puiforcat
• Hair and hat ornaments.
• Gold & diamond studded leather goods.

1945

• Becoming very well-known

1950s

• Many famous clients
• King Farouk, Egypt.
• President El Khoury, Libya.
• President Vargus, Brazil.
• Wife of Maharaja of Baroda.
• Exiled Egyptian Queen, Switzerland.

Awards & designs

• Diamond Award from DeBeers.
• Becomes a member of the DeBeers Diamond Corporation.
• Invents Gold Thread

1960s

• Salvador Dali book cover for Livre de L’Apocalypse
• Financial and personal problems required him to sell of many possessions.
• The majority of his work was sold through Chaumet.

1969

• Opens his own shop.

1976

• Bankruptcy and stock liquidation (mostly to Chaumet).
• Sterlé becomes a Technical Consultant to Chaumet.

1978

• Sterlé dies.