Our Story

Owner, Michelle Manguette was born in Belgium Congo from the daughter of an African village chief and a Belgium territorial administrator.

Aged three, she left Africa for Liege in Belgium where she spent a happy childhood with her paternal grand-mother. In her early twenties, she moved to London where she opened her first Jewellery boutique in 1978 in Kensington Church Walk. Since then she has taken her boutique to a more prominent location within Holland Street.

Michelle is a keen traveller and has done so at an earlier age, which has heavily influenced her 2 daughters. As she has visited numerous amounts of countries, it enables her to embrace all the cultural aspects and cocoon those influences with her work.

Jewellery is like a biography, a story that tells the many chapters of our life…

Since 1984, Michelle Manguette has had a passion for creativity and diversity. Manguette designs her own range of jewellery inspired by her rich cultural heritage, outside influences and current trends without diluting her own individual flair. Manguette's designs are bold , confident and traditional with the incredibility to mould designs with new and old influences. Using exquisite, semi-precious stones, pearls, ambers, 18 carat, 24 carat vermeil and sterling silver she is able to combining her elaborate influence to create elegant statement jewellery.

Manguette's jewellery are all one-off pieces so the exclusivity is a premium on its own.

Michelle Manguette has established herself as an experienced jewellery business. Her boutique was incredibly beautiful showcasing her work and other designers she had collectively worked with throughout the years from around the world. We like to think that Manguette boutique was a modern day interactive art exhibition that offered customers the most beautiful, elegant and on trend designs which creates the ambience of incredible warm luxury.

After over 40 years behind her Michelle decided with a heavy heart to close her boutique in Kensington to retire and spend more time with her family. Michelle has now refocused her creativity by continuing her flair for designing jewellery and establishing more of an online presence to showcase her pieces.