Gemmologist Elisabeth Lillo-Renner has been based in Monaco for over 35 years on the first floor of the Palais de la Scala, where her boutique comes to life, perfectly recognizable by its small glass cases. She can advise and assist you right from the design stage, as well as with repairs and conversions. Cabinet Lillo-Renner also handles the appraisal and eventual sale of the parts you wish to dispose of, with the utmost discretion and confidence.
Elisabeth Lillo Renner
The world of gemstones is vast, and Elisabeth Lillo-Renner can help you choose the one that’s right for you. Our highly-skilled workshops allow us to dream up and create one-of-a-kind pieces designed just for you.
“Dare to personalize your jewelry and dare to wear them, because jewelry is an everyday art that we should enjoy.
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday, 9:30 am to 6:30 pm
During MAW 2025
Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 6.30pm. Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm
2025
Corpus homini
Yannick Cosso, Joël Alain Dervaux, Marin Spreng
27.06.2025 - 12.07.2025
At a time when the representation of the female body has invaded every social sphere – from advertising to art, from the intimate to the political – we’ve decided, for the duration of an exhibition, to turn our attention to the male body.
The artists exhibited at the Cabinet Lillo-Renner examine the trace, the gesture, the imprint that these bodies leave on the surface of their sheets, a trace that sometimes verges on abstraction. From the contortion of these bodies and the sometimes almost painful movements that each captures, emerges a sensuality that is akin to primitive wonder. Yannick Cosso’s charcoal drawings and Joël Alain Dervaux’s photographs are like reminiscent of the academic nudes and artistic postures of yesteryear. But here, the whole is held in fragile balance, as if tending towards a fall – waiting for our gaze to restore the skin’s grains, flesh, furrows and hollows to an impudent aplomb. These black-and-white bodies serve as a showcase for the collection of men’s jewelry created especially for this exhibition by artist and jeweler Martin Spreng. Wonderful long necklaces in gold and lapis lazuli, rings adorned with precious stones or chains with simple titanium links, all those pieces sublimate the male body, like a return to the time before the Industrial Revolution, when men allowed themselves the chic of jewelry.
Curiosities
Drawing her inspiration from Baroque cabinets of curiosities and the surrealist poetry of Éluard, from religious culture as much as from plastic flowers, Lillo (aka La P’tite Lillo) creates objects on the edge, suspended between delicacy and kitsch, adorned with precious stones and gilded branches, concrete and embroidery thread.
From her highly literary background – with a doctorate in semiology and an agrégation de lettres modernes in her pocket – Lillo retains a particular attachment to the suavity of words and the significance of each stigma, which she embroiders here and there on Canson, Japanese paper or old photos.
A whole universe is racing through his mind. She likes to share it through different media, working in turn with thread, fabric, Indian ink, photography and natural elements gleaned from her walks.
Miel d'aube soleil en fleurs,
"Surrealist Mo biles" collection,
Golden branch, braided metal wire and gold wire, ruby, artificial flowers and leaves
© lillorenner & Pixl Studio Monaco
"Surrealist Mo biles" collection,
Golden branch, braided metal wire and gold wire, ruby, artificial flowers and leaves
© lillorenner & Pixl Studio Monaco
Miel d'aube soleil en fleurs,
"Surrealist Mo biles" collection,
Golden branch, braided metal wire and gold wire, ruby, artificial flowers and leaves
© lillorenner & Pixl Studio Monaco
"Surrealist Mo biles" collection,
Golden branch, braided metal wire and gold wire, ruby, artificial flowers and leaves
© lillorenner & Pixl Studio Monaco
Miel d'aube soleil en fleurs,
"Surrealist Mo biles" collection,
Golden branch, braided metal wire and gold wire, ruby, artificial flowers and leaves
© lillorenner & Pixl Studio Monaco
"Surrealist Mo biles" collection,
Golden branch, braided metal wire and gold wire, ruby, artificial flowers and leaves
© lillorenner & Pixl Studio Monaco
Exhibition
Titanic Exhibition
The world of jewelry has always been in a constant state of evolution, with the use of different metals and the evolution of processes characterizing different eras.
Today, while gold seemed to monopolize the world of fine jewelry, titanium is overturning tradition and gradually taking its place in the big leagues.
Its legendary lightness and vast colorimetry make it possible to design modern, elegant jewelry. Elisabeth Lillo-Renner presents here two creative lines, made by two artists who perfectly dominate this art, and yet, in nothing are they alike!
Martin Spreng, a former cabinetmaker and jewellery designer with a penchant for sculpture, is strongly inspired by nature, and finds in titanium the dry yet moist sensations and textures that wildlife gives us.
Margherita Burgener, also influenced by floral motifs, makes us feel the softness in her movements and colors, for a more classic and traditional jewelry.