Guy Bedarida

Guy Bedarida, (born in 1963) is the Creative Director qnd Head Designer of the John Hardy brand. He lives between Asia, Europe and USA and is of French-Italian parentage, and grew up in Florence and Paris.

Education & Career

Bedarida studied jewelry and fashion design at the Instituto Europeo del Design in Rome. His first professional experiences were with haute joaillerie brands of Place Vendôme before working in New York. He designed for the French high jewelry brand Boucheron, special orders as precious "objets d'art" in rock crystal as well as high-end jewelry for royalties and collectors. He then moved to USA to lead the design department of Van Cleef and Arpels where he created exclusive One-of-A-Kind jewels destinated to movie star, celebrities and jet set moghuls. He also designed unique pieces with ruby invisble setting, Kashmir sapphires and blue chalcedony.

John Hardy hired Bedarida in 1999 as the Head Designer, and soon added the Creative Director brief to his role. His aesthetic proficiency is inspired by nature, and his flair for working with precious metals and stones has led to the development of some of John Hardy's best-selling collections.

In 2007, he joined then President Damien Dernoncourt in a management buyout of the company, along with 3i, a private equity group.

At the John Hardy design center in Bali, Bedarida lead the creative department with a team of 60 highly skilled illustrators, designers, wax carvers, metal smiths and stone cutters, all of whom work by hand to create the distinctive John Hardy look . Local illustrators and designers are initiated in the French art of fine jewelry hand drawings as an important stage in the development of new designs .