Bronzo Accessorio · 2015

Lacey I Braccialetti

by Diana Sokolic

A' Design Award di Bronzo 2015 in Accessorio
CLIENT: Diana Sokolic
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About Lacey I Braccialetti

Tutti noi abbiamo i cassetti pieni dei merletti realizzati dalle nostre mamme e nonne. Quei doyley venivano usati come decorazione su tavolini, televisori o poltrone. Al giorno d'oggi hanno un valore emotivo, ma non servono a niente. Diana Sokolic ha realizzato dei braccialetti con laccio tra due piastre di plexiglas trasparente. Bellissimi pezzi realizzati con amore e pazienza hanno riacquistato il loro scopo collegando il nostro passato con il nostro presente.

About the A' Design Award di Bronzo

Lacey I Braccialetti ha vinto l'A' Design Award di Bronzo, un riconoscimento altamente prestigioso conferito a design eccezionali che si distinguono per creatività, ingegno e astuzia. I vincitori di Bronzo sono manufatti ampiamente abili e sorprendentemente creativi che autenticano la vasta esperienza, l'immaginazione e l'intraprendenza dei loro designer. Ci si aspetta che Lacey I Braccialetti sia un oggetto molto apprezzato, ammirato e amato, notevolmente professionale e innovativo. Questo design vincitore dell'A' Design Award di Bronzo incorpora le migliori pratiche dell'arte, della scienza, del design e della tecnologia, ed è eccellente per l'attenzione al dettaglio. Lacey I Braccialetti soddisfa splendidamente i bisogni, tocca i desideri, affascina i sentimenti e attira la curiosità.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: Our great grandmothers and grandmothers were brought up to play piano, read poetry and make lace. In the 60ies, their daughters kept those lace doyleys under the glass on coffee tables and commodes. Now we have drawers full of lace and needlework. It has no use in modernly furnished flats, it hass just an emotional value.
I have made cuff bracelets with lace between two plates of transparent Plexiglas.
In this way the lace has kept its transparency, gained new use, at the same time recognizing the women who made it and those who kept it for us.
Dimensions & Packaging: 130 x 75 x 50 mm
Tags: lace,cuff bracelet, accessorie, fashion
Production Technology: Lace and PMMA
I did not want to put delicate lace in a metal frame or any other heavy material. So I decided to put it between two pieces of transparent Plexiglas.
Design Challenge: Since PMMA has to be heated in order to be bent, the most challenging part was how to heat it without burning the delicate threads of needlework and then how to connect the lace and the Plexiglas without the glue.
Research: This project was technically the most diffucult one for me. I was affraid that I will burn the lace while experimenting with different temperatures in order to bent the PMMA, since I could not experiment with something else except the lace itself.
PMMA plates have to be really hot in order to stick to one another, while the lace is between the layers.
I had to find lace doyleys which are not to big because cuffs have to be weareable.
Inspiration: From time to time I open the drawer with lace and needlework kept between sheets of thin white paper. I look at them with love and patience, expecting to hear them talking to me. I know that those pieces want to be used again, that they want to show their beauty. And one day it just happened! They talked to me!
Project Duration: I have made these bracelets in my hometown Zagreb, Croatia
and the process lasted for several month.
This project has not been shown jet.
Operation Flow: Cuffs are open at the back so one size fits all
Image Credits: Diana Sokolic, 2014.