Phase: Completed (2026)
Client: Jean Dousset

Jean Dousset is a Los Angeles-based fine jewelry house founded by Jean Dousset, great-great-grandson of Louis Cartier. The brand designs made-to-order engagement rings, wedding bands, and fine jewelry exclusively in lab-grown diamonds, hand-selecting the top 0.1% of stones. Its signature detail is the Signature Stone®, a personal gem hidden beneath the center diamond. After its West Hollywood flagship and SoHo showroom, the brand opened its first Northern California boutique at Westfield Valley Fair in Santa Clara in July 2026.

KWONBAE served as Architect of Record, in collaboration with MQ Architecture and Sybille Homberg, to bring the brand’s Parisian-inspired design language to a mall setting. Scope included construction documents, code compliance, permitting, and construction administration. The boutique pairs a curated retail floor for ready-to-wear pieces with private appointment space, where clients work one-on-one to design custom jewelry. That high-touch service model is central to the brand.