Museum brochure, World Jewellery Museum, Seoul The museum is a slim black box with three floors of displays, leading up to a temporary gallery at the top with panoramic views of the old city. It was conceived by Lee Kang-Won early in her 30-year period as a diplomat’s wife, during a posting in Ethiopia. Posts […]
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Galleries exhibiting jewelry are an important part of our community and the people who run them have interesting backgrounds and stories to tell. In this interview Stefan Freidemann from Ornamentum Gallery in Hudson, New York answered some questions posed by Damian Skinner. Please tell us the story of how you and your wife Laura Lapachin
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Elsa Vanier, 2011, photo: Daniel Meyer Elsa, please tell us the story of how you became a jewelry gallery owner. It is a story dating from when I was a teenager and reading books about gemstones. I have always been very sensitive to colors, and for me, gemstones are like flowers living forever. (I still
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The London Design Festival (LDF) that took place in September 2011 is London’s annual celebration of design in the broadest possible sense, ranging from large architectural installations to precious gems under glass, the work of students in pop-up galleries to luxury furniture stores on Brompton Road. This year, the organizers latched on to the words
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Namita Gupta Wiggers is curator at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, where she leads the exhibition, collection and public programs. Wiggers combines a background in art history, museum education, anthropology, design research, teaching and writing into a program that explores craft, design and curating
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SOFA Chicago. (Or, everyone boards the Titanic.) It would be disingenuous for me to pretend that I don’t have fun at SOFA Chicago. There are great things to be found, but you have to sift a lot of chaff to find it. My assumption has always been that a large volume of the traffic at
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Like many of my internet acquaintances, I had the privilege of finally meeting John and Corliss Rose at the 2009 SNAG Conference in Houston. They are as warm, generous and irreverent in person as I had hoped. They are also some of the hardest-working art-jewelry makers I know. Since opening their studio together in 1968,
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Installation, No Problem(?), Gallery Loupe, 2010 Shirly Bar-Amotz, Zoo: Bunny 2 Brooch, teflon plated copper, 18 karat gold, silver, zircon, 35 x 60 x 20 mm
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Gijs Bakker is a well-known Dutch jeweler and the artistic director of Chi ha paura . . .? as well as various other design initiatives. Damian Skinner interviewed him on the occasion of Designers on Jewelry: Twelve years of jewelry production by Chi ha paura…? at the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design in January 2010. Damian Skinner:
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Schmuck 2010, held in Munich from March 3 –9, 2010, was the center of five fever-pitched days of jewelry and adornment. Over 30 exhibitions were presented citywide, representing a variety of countries, academic programs and individual studio jewelers. Installation detail, Schmuck 2010 Adam Grinovich, Necklace: Function & sense #1: Function 1, 2008, leather, polish, iron,
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Benjamin Lignel is curator of Also Known As Jewellery*, an exhibition of French contemporary jewelry that has been traveling the world. AJF asked him some questions about the exhibition and the work featured in it. Damian Skinner: What is Also Known As Jewellery*? Frédéric Braham, Beauty Tool: Per Abbellire e Purificare Le Parole, 2006, metal lipstick (by Terry),
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David Bielander, Raspberries Necklace, 2005, Scoubidou (plastic tube), silver, 440 mm long emiko oye, The Queen Margherita, 2007,from My First Royal Jewels Jewellery Collection, (Neckpiece converts into 3 bracelets, 2 neckpieces, one brooch), used & new LEGO, coated copper wire, rubber cording, sterling silver, steel pin back, 34 The curators/jurors of Decorative Resurgence, Jill Baker
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