A new initiative by Elle Pagels, granddaughter of the legendary Pierre Cartier, opens an unexpected chapter in the history of European luxury. Under the LOUIS-FRANÇOIS CARTIER 1859 label, Ligne Héritage is launching a jewelry line focused on status, identity, and capitalizing on style.
The project is built on a philosophy of heritage: each piece is an accent, an artifact, proof of its origins. In the digital age, the collection takes on physical significance, cementing the owner’s place in the aesthetic and cultural landscape.
Ligne Héritage combines aesthetics, origin, and the personal formula of names in items whose power lies not in their glamour, but in their meaning. The brand is already supported by a number of institutional partners in Geneva and Luxembourg. The next step is private shows and presentations in a closed format.
Elle Pagels—granddaughter of the renowned Pierre Cartier—has formally severed her Richemont ties to inaugurate Ligne Héritage, drawing upon Louis-François Cartier’s ethos and translating it for current sensibilities.
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All creations reference the first Cartier house founded in Paris in 1859 and weave together:
• Foundational European gold-working archetypes,
• Streamlined Art Deco merged with utilitarian modernism,
• A principle of personal worth—sheer status, quietly held.
Operating under LOUIS-FRANÇOIS CARTIER 1859, Pagels’ items form a symbolic network: every owner is granted a numerically unique ring, secured in gold and recorded in a master register.
Her coalition of supporters—private investors from Geneva, Zurich, Luxembourg, and European legacy funds—shapes a confidential structure where extravagance aligns with fiscal robustness, rendering each jewel both a cultural icon and an economic unit.
