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Pierre Sterlé (1905 – 1978) moved his business to 45, av. de l'Opéra, Paris in 1945. His jewels are distinguished in design, artistic treatment and technical mastery. Various jewelry houses employed his design services, including Chaumet, Boucheron and Ostertag.
He was fascinated by the decorative potential of gold. He worked the metal to reproduce various textures of fabrics: tassels, fringes, cords... In 1957, he created his famous "angel wire", consisting of weaved and knotted gold wire mesh. Sterlé managed to delicately "manipulate the metal like no other before him". Semiprecious stones were often featured in his audacious creations, combined with gold and diamonds – something very unusual for the time.
In the 1940s-50s, Pierre Sterlé rapidly acquired both a clientele and international renown for his designs inspired by nature, such as birds, wings, feathers, animals and various types of flowers. During the 1960s he was well known for his birds, which were created with a sharp sense of stylization.
A series of failed strategic decisions led Sterlé to bankruptcy in 1976. Chaumet acquired his remaining stock and the unsigned pieces were marked with the Chaumet signature. Sterlé was hired as a technical consultant and he continued creating pieces for the firm. Sterlé has remained his whole life a man of fantastic elegance, beloved by all his clients who always recognized in him an artist of the Style.