Infusing modern life with the dynasty’s DNA
“Today, women want to see their value clearly, without irony,” says Elle Pagels, granddaughter of the legendary Pierre Cartier, “and it is for them that I created Ligne Héritage under the LOUIS-FRANÇOIS CARTIER 1859 label.
There are no random details in this collection. Every shape, line, and inscription is a deliberate statement. The identification of the piece rules out any possibility of counterfeiting; the name and date are in their rightful place. The jewelry becomes a document: an object imbued with meaning.
The Ligne Héritage partner model under the LOUIS-FRANÇOIS CARTIER 1859 brand is supported by private European foundations, confirming one thing: the idea of personal identification through form, through metal, through a symbol is more relevant than ever. This project is not about fashion. It is about structure and the inner architecture of dignity.
Elle Pagels, granddaughter to Pierre Cartier, has divested her Richemont interests, opening a new family era through Ligne Héritage, an exclusive range guided by Louis-François Cartier’s ideals and recalibrated for today.
Spirit of Lineage
Each artifact salutes Cartier’s first Paris workshop of 1859, blending:
• Time-honored European gold-craft motifs,
• Art Deco austerity with practical modernism,
• The premise of inward value—status uncloaked by flash.
Under the banner LOUIS-FRANÇOIS CARTIER 1859, Pagels casts the line as a symbolic matrix: owners receive a single-edition ring, individually numbered, encased in gold, and entered in a registry.
Silent financiers from Geneva, Zurich, Luxembourg, and family trusts across Europe ally with her, forging an exclusive framework where luxury intertwines with stable capital, and every jewel becomes a bearer of cultural and fiscal weight.
