IMAGICAL GEMS
We select the best - beautiful, fascinating and unusual jewellery
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Saymui Yokouchi
Saymui Yokouchi a winning jewellery designer comes from Tokyo, Japan, although now lives in New York City. Her felt-covered rings are amazing.
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Liesbet Bussche
Liesbet Bussche comes from Amsterdam and makes some interesting pieces of jewellery. Her Urban Jewellery is fascinating - large scale work out in the environment - elephant sized beads. In 2012 she had a show called Mirror, Mirror which went to San Francisco after touring elsewhere.
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Ribbonesia
Ribbonesia is a project from the artist/illustrator 'BAKU', based in Japan. These wearable accessories are based on animals and use techniques that recall paper folding and origami.
http://www.ribbonesia.com/
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Unexpected Pleasures
Unexpected Pleasures - At the Design Museum now – 03 March 2013
Unexpected Pleasures celebrates the work of contemporary jewellers who have challenged the conventions of jewellery design. The exhibition offers a survey of contemporary jewellery presented through a number of themes: Worn Out - celebrating the experience of wearing jewellery
Linking Links - looking at the ways in which meaning and narratives are expressed in jewellery and A Fine Line - offering insights into the origins of contemporary jewellery today, highlighting key instigators of the contemporary jewellery movement.
The exhibition features prominent UK and international jewellers including Wendy Ramshaw, renowned for her complex geometric designs, Hans Stofer's intricate wire form jewellery, Gijs Bakker’s conceptual adornments, delicate abstract pieces by Dorothea Pruhl and the wonderful Felieke Van Der Leest.
http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2012/unexpected-pleasures
All Souls Ring (“Allerseelen”), Hans Stofer, 1994, Mild steel, welded, blackened and waxed. Glass (bottle bottom) and carved olive stone heads
Work as art: David Bielander's scampi bracelet; Hans Stofer's bracelet of pearls scattered on a bandage, Karl Fritsch's screw ring and Caroline Broadhead's Veil feature in the exhibition.
Unexpected Pleasures celebrates the work of contemporary jewellers who have challenged the conventions of jewellery design. The exhibition offers a survey of contemporary jewellery presented through a number of themes: Worn Out - celebrating the experience of wearing jewellery
Linking Links - looking at the ways in which meaning and narratives are expressed in jewellery and A Fine Line - offering insights into the origins of contemporary jewellery today, highlighting key instigators of the contemporary jewellery movement.
The exhibition features prominent UK and international jewellers including Wendy Ramshaw, renowned for her complex geometric designs, Hans Stofer's intricate wire form jewellery, Gijs Bakker’s conceptual adornments, delicate abstract pieces by Dorothea Pruhl and the wonderful Felieke Van Der Leest.
http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2012/unexpected-pleasures
All Souls Ring (“Allerseelen”), Hans Stofer, 1994, Mild steel, welded, blackened and waxed. Glass (bottle bottom) and carved olive stone heads
Work as art: David Bielander's scampi bracelet; Hans Stofer's bracelet of pearls scattered on a bandage, Karl Fritsch's screw ring and Caroline Broadhead's Veil feature in the exhibition.
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Ineke Otte
Ineke Otte is a designer/artist who designs a range of products, including tables, lamps, interior products, jewellery, shawls, sculptures, and objects in glass.
http://www.inekeotte.com/jewellery.html
Alina Jessipovich
Inspired by ‘Polly Pocket’ toys, "intrigued by the
tiny world in my hand"... this fascination led Alina to develop jewellery
that is a landscape of its own: something to play with, look at and
imagine things about, right on your finger. Inspiration comes from big
cities, densely populated areas, and urban skylines. Made from small, found objects when grouped together, they form cities of
their own. Her jewellery
gives these discarded objects new lives and new meanings.
Alina Jessipovich studied BA in Jewellery Design at Middlesex and is based in London.
Alina Jessipovich studied BA in Jewellery Design at Middlesex and is based in London.
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Delfina Delettrez
Delfina Delettrez, a member of the Fendi family, made her current range in Italy. It consists of strange and humorous pieces and uses semiprecious and precious stones, ceramics and Italian marbles and other organic materials. Some are built upon ideas of the human body, death's heads, insects and flowers.
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