Diana Widmaier-Picasso featured in HURS magazine.
May 15, 2026Menē is honored to share that co-founder Diana Widmaier-Picasso was recently featured in HURS magazine, as part of A Woman's Work, a curated space by HURS at Basic.Space Los Angeles showcasing furniture, design objects, and books made exclusively by women.
Read the full conversation here.
The conversation, titled An Art Historian With Skin in the Game, explores Diana's career as an art historian, curator, and collector, and her work as co-founder of Menē. The interview moves across her training at the Sorbonne and Sotheby's, her two-decade project compiling the catalogue raisonné of Picasso's sculptures, and her perspective on bringing radical price transparency to the world of jewelry.
On price transparency at Menē.
Speaking with HURS, Diana describes the model that drew her to co-found Menē: a jewelry company where every piece is priced according to the gram weight of pure 24k gold or pure platinum and the current market price of the metal. She notes that the concept is disruptive in a market where margins are typically guarded closely, and frames Menē as offering a very different relationship to jewelry, one that is both aesthetic and financial, almost like holding a tangible asset.
On the meeting of art and jewelry.
The interview also touches on Menē's collaboration with the Louise Bourgeois estate, including the casting of the iconic spider directly in gold. Diana describes the collaboration as a very natural dialogue between her sculptural language and the intrinsic value of gold, something both material and symbolic, developed through her existing relationship with the foundation following her earlier work on a Picasso and Louise Bourgeois exhibition.
The HURS feature places Menē within the broader story of Diana's career, where the same eye trained on art history shapes her work at Menē and where jewelry is approached as both object and asset.
Explore the Menē collection, where the language of art shapes each piece in pure gold and pure platinum.