Argento Gioielleria · 2021
Eastern Blocks Gioielli in cemento
- A' Design Award d'Argento 2021 in Gioielleria
- CLIENT: Celsius 273
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 29,597
- Verification code 2B5EFE80D3 · Verify this award
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About Eastern Blocks Gioielli in cemento
Eastern Blocks è una collezione di gioielli in cemento ispirata ai casermoni prefabbricati dell'Europa orientale. La collezione comprende collane e orecchini che riprendono le forme degli edifici residenziali prefabbricati. Il cemento viene impiegato perché è un materiale leggero, anallergico e difficilmente soggetto a rotture. Ogni pezzo nasce come disegno tridimensionale, cui seguono i prototipi e gli stampi in silicone per la colata. Le parti in cemento finite vengono poi assemblate con argento e cuoio. La collezione invita a guardare con occhi nuovi al patrimonio architettonico dell'Europa orientale.
About the A' Design Award d'Argento
Eastern Blocks Gioielli in cemento ha vinto l'A' Design Award d'Argento, un riconoscimento enormemente prestigioso conferito a design di fascia alta, splendidi e impressionanti. I vincitori d'Argento sono opere tremendamente brillanti ed estremamente creative che illustrano l'eccezionale competenza, il talento e l'acume dei loro designer. Ci si aspetta che Eastern Blocks Gioielli in cemento sia un'opera meravigliosa, una vetrina di eccellenza, notevolmente professionale e profondamente innovativa. Questo design vincitore dell'A' Design Award d'Argento è un'invenzione molto notevole e ammirata che giova ai confini dell'arte, della scienza, del design e della tecnologia e li fa avanzare. Eastern Blocks Gioielli in cemento è una creazione molto invidiata che evoca desideri, porta sentimenti positivi e accende meraviglia e stupore.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- This design is wearable architecture. Concrete material and brutalist design with the story behind makes these accessories more than wearable - it's an educational, fashionable manifesto about architectural heritage and society.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Necklaces approx.17.5 cm x 15.5 cm and other 18x11 thickness 0.5- 1 cm. Earrings 4x2 cm concrete detail and optional 5-9 cm silver wire long. Other earrings 14.5x2 cm.
- Tags
- concrete jewelry, architectural jewelry, eastern european, blockhouses, brutalist jewelry, soviet architecture, brutalist architecture, jewelry artist, jewelry designer,
- Production Technology
- I chose concrete material - light, non-allergenic, and less fragile to create an ode of a brutalist dystopia. First of all, I designed 3d drawings, made prototypes, and then, started to create molds for concrete details with silicon. When the concrete pieces were finished, I started metalworking with silver and leather materials.
- Design Challenge
- To find a form, which would be understandable, that it's blockhouse jewelry, but minimalist, aesthetic and impressive.
- Research
- I made monitoring of the architecture and society attitude of Eastern European houses. My objective was to find a way, how to talk about post-Soviet society and Eastern European architecture heritage in fashion accessories. The main point is to start a discussion with locals' minds about this unique architecture and spread this wearable message. In this collection, I question people’s attitudes towards Soviet heritage and invite you to take a fresh look at Soviet architecture and society's illusions.
- Inspiration
- The collection was inspired by Eastern European panel blockhouses as an iconic modern community symbol. Shapes of panel buildings and us - people, who live in individuality fiction, because the truth is that only a few centimeters between the walls separate us and our individuality is just fiction in this world.
- Project Duration
- This project started as an idea 2018 but I finished this collection 2020.
- Operation Flow
- Wearable jewelry made of concrete. Light, strong, and non - allergic material make jewelry more comfortable and wearable. This technology and design give a chance to wear architecture in real form and material as a piece of jewelry.
- Image Credits
- Photographer: Ieva Rudzionyte Model: Paulina Judzinskyte, Make up and hair: Indrija Kneize
Video credits:
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Model: Gabija Rostovskyte
