Critical Design Theory Critical Design Theory, a concept introduced by the British industrial designers and educators Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, emerged in the late 90s as a sort of conceptual successor to Anti-Design (its aesthetical successors being the Memphis group and Droog Design). According to Dunne and Raby, Critical Design is not some sort […]
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Traditional exvotos collection, private collection Sergio Barbieri, photo: Negro Karamanian Traditional ex-votos and contemporary jewelry both raise similar questions and concerns for viewers: What do they mean? What are they telling us? Their social purposes are different, and they belong to different worlds, but both are the product of materialized wishes: ex-votos and contemporary
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Rebecca Hannon, Wave Necklace, 2016, laminate, 960 x 60 x 60 mm, photo: Andrea Wagner The brightly colored, interlocking, laminate shapes that form the perplexingly composed necklaces and brooches in Rebecca Hannon’s recent exhibition Contemporary Camouflage are the result of investigations into the effects color has on form, and the complex configurations made possible through laser
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Jorge Castañón, Las Madrigueras, 2007, necklace, ebony, itin wood, eucalyptus, linen, 210 x 450 x 20 mm, photo: artist Jorge Castañón is a significant jeweler in Argentina. He has developed his work both as a jeweler and as a craft master, springing from a traditional craftsmanship approach to contemporary jewelry. In 1990 he founded the
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Marianne Anselin, Plier, 2013, cuff and rings, sterling silver, gold, patinated iron, height of cuff 130 mm, photo: Elsa Vanier French jewelry artist Marianne Anselin prefers iron, rusted patinated steel, and cast iron as her materials of choice, forging them into detailed impressions of leaves, shells, and other shapes borrowed from nature. Inspired by walks
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Piret Hirv at her bench, photo: Urmas Lüüs Piret Hirv is one of the standard-bearers of Estonian jewelry. International audiences will identify her as part of the trail-blazing õhuLoss collective, and will know her powerfully melancholy low-reliefs in silver: paper-thin silver shrouds draped over passing souls. I met Piret on a trip to Estonia in
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