Concrètement, vous avez quoi ?

c’est certain que le ciment, c’est « concret », pour jouer avec les mots !

Attention, article bétonné !!

sera présente à JOYA 2013 : Amira Jalet  « La esencia del Otro »  Cemento procesado con arena y piedra, rejilla electro-soldada, resina transparente, madera de balsa y laurel, vidrio de color y aluminio.

 Benita Dekel (IL),  2011  – Mass Construction by Benita Dekel (Jewelry Design Department, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design)
You can almost sense Betina’s hands carving their way through concrete. The raw feeling of it takes me to the land of scaffolding and builders.  Photos by Ran Plotnizky. (from DesignMilk)

Benita Dekel, 2011 – jewelry with concrete – braceletBergner Schmidt concrete jewelry – collier en béton – Bergner Schmidt‘s concrete jewelry is both architectural and sculptural.

Bergner Schmidt  concrete jewelry - 

Concrete Jewelry by Bergner Schmidt

Bergner Schmidt Concrete collar – concrete jewelry

Geraldine Nishi  Necklace: Melanzana 2010  Concrete, silver, beads

Kathleen Hennemann – beton collection 

Kathleen Hennemann – beton collection

Kathleen Hennemann – beton collection

concrete jewelry by KON ZUK - Concrete + Stainless Steel  bracelet (Karen Konzuk aspires to create jewelry that is more wearable architecture than simple accessory. A graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Karen earned a BFA with a major in Jewelry Design and a minor in Art History, and then introduced the KONZUK line shortly after graduation.)

anillo de hormigón armado diseñado por Fernando Menis   (ES)  Menis concrete ring

Dechberoucí (Kateřina Matěchová & Karla Olšáková, CZ) : Beton jewelry

Dechberoucí (Kateřina Matěchová & Karla Olšáková, CZ) : Beton necklace

Concrete ring by Holcim Art (CZ) (jewelry by MgA. Katka Venclíková, A graduate of the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design, Prague)  

Holcim Art (CZ) (jewelry by MgA. Katka Venclíková) – « Functionnal house’ concrete necklace

REVIVRE RING, Concrete-Nickel. Nickel-plated concrete and brass ring shank.
DECADENCE – Collection 05 – by GALA curios (AU), a jewellery and accessories label by designer Jasmine Noir.
DECADENCE draws aesthetically on ruinous cities – landscapes which have been developed and then abandoned by humans, and overgrown once again by nature. Contrasting sharp geometry with organic, ornamental detail, the collection miniaturises the cycle of life, death and the beauty of decay.

22Design Studio (Taiwan) created a series of rings which were inspired by architectural design and urban style, made from cement and stainless steel. Smooth, cool concrete texture and various shapes of these rings emit calm yet inspiring design by the two young designers from Taiwan. (22 Design Studio was founded by Sean Yu and Yi-ting Cheng in 2005. The main mission of 22 Design Studio is to operate self-owned label 22™. The collection of 22™ presents series of personal accessories made of cement and metal) 

concrete ring // Jim Cotter Gallery

Patrice Fabre — Ring in gold and concrete with diamonds  

notjustalabel – Concrete Objective Ring – Faceted angles have been cast and shaped by hand into a sculptural, cubist-style grey ring. notjustalabel.com

Anna Szabó / Ivanka Studio (HU) – stylized organs jewlery – pendants. made of concrete (from Mocoloco)- awarded “Jewel of the Year 2012”

Concrete rings – by Israel’s Hadas Shaham  Defying the cold, industrial style you might expect from a line of concrete jewellery, her pieces are architectural with a pretty flourish   (from thecarrotbox)

square ring from Hadas Shaham (IL) (detail). concrete tire tread pattern.

Hadas Shaham Ring Necklace – Concrete, Sterling Silver and Gold Plating

Set in Cement Round Ring – concrete ring -    Made exclusively for sale in the Walker Art Museum Gift Shop.  shop.walkerart.org

Linda Ezerman Concrete ring for Hazy day

Metsa Design : Cement pearls – These cement earrings are modeled on classic pearl studs. Each concrete sphere is cast by hand and set onto a sterling silver post. With wear, the colour of the earrings will deepen as the concrete is exposed to the air and the oils from your skin.

 Handmade Concrete Jewelry from Berezki Jewelry (Alisa Berezovski)

Liesbet Bussche

Liesbet Bussche - Belgian designer & street artist Liesbeth Bussche adds glamour to Amsterdam streets by replicating jewelery pieces from industrial items found around town such as these post earrings made of concrete balls

Liesbet Bussche, her graduation project from the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam was all about street jewellery.

cement returns to cement …………..

ENVIRONNEMENT MODERNE

…. environnement urbain : travaux, béton, ferrailles, échafaudages, palissades, barrières, outillages, machineries, matériaux de construction, lignes, cartes, plans, routes, échangeurs, sens interdits …….. démolition, reconstruction ….  tout cet environnement, même hostile ou menaçant, fascine ….. un moment, le mouvement est arrêté, « photographié », pensé, intériorisé puis réinterprété selon chacun, retraduit, « miniaturisé » pour devenir bijou … une construction nouvelle, en quelque sorte ….

(voir également l’article « Architectures …………… en broches »)

Andrea Zeuner  – Superhighway Brooch 2011  Brass, asphalt crack repair, steel

Andrea Zeuner – Superhighway Neckpiece – Brass, asphalt crack repair, nickel – 2010

Andrea Zeuner – Neighborhood Brooch – sterling, copper, raw garnets, wood, steel

Caitie Sellers Transistor Brooch – sterling & steel

Caitie Sellers topographic brooch – Sterling Silver.
The inside of this brooch is composed of 5 pierced disks to make that image. The top of the brooch screws off so the wearer can take out the slices and do something else with them

Phoebe Porter - transit necklace

Andrea PIneros – Broche CIRCUITOS, 2011. The city, the friends, the family and you – Brass, Cristal, car paint

Stephanie Barbié -Lo natural, lo artificial – broche – alpaca, plata, resina, metacrilato
« El mapa de una ciudad, como primera aproximación de un espacio, reune lo artificial y lo natural, lo simbólico y lo real. Confronta imaginación y deseos con vivencia y realidad. Esas piezas surgen de esta confrontación. «

 

Michael Dale Bernard Excavator necklace, stainless steel, silver, vinyl tubing, powder coat,  2009

Michael Dale Bernard Dozer brooch, one of a pair designed for the Neo-Rococo show. Stainless steel, aluminum, silver, brass, iron pyrite, powder coat, 2010

Maru Lopez – Derrumbe paredes – 200 – Silver,Iron and cement

Vanessa Arthur - ‘Demolition necklace’ – Reclaimed wood, laminate, copper, wooden beads, gold elastic, 925 silver.

Diego Bisso – Environmental Jewelry – Marmo (marble)

Dana DiPlacido (2011 graduate from MassArt, Massachusetts College of Art and Design ) – House bracelet, 2011 – stainless steel

Robean Visschers  «under-construction» structure ring -Gold, silver (oxidized)- 2006

Robean Visschers  - construction/structure ring

Robean Visschers Untitled 2009 Brooch

Bin Dixon-Ward – brooch – 2009

Ara Kuo – ‘MAZE’ brooch

Alice Bo-Wen Chang Bodyspace/bodyscape serie – red brooch

Linda Hughes Square Neckpiece and bracelet

« Colour plays a very important part in your jewellery and it is often bold and bright. Would you consider this a signature style or do see yourself moving towards a different palette in the future?
The palette relates directly to street signage but I do feel free to incorporate other colours and don’t feel inhibited by it.
What ignited your interest in signs? Was it marked by a particular experience or moment?
Some of the urban landscape in Australia seems particularly contrived, like a theatre set. A mixture of international influences all mixed up, often without connecting to the environment. My attention is drawn to signs as ‘street furniture’ if you like, ‘props’. « 

Linda Hughes – Necklace

« In her new body of work, contemporary jeweller Linda Hughes explores the ‘stripe’, historically favoured as a metonym for danger, exclusion and as a device to attract attention. Hazard signage, ubiquitous in the urban landscape, changes when placed on the body as jewellery. In this exhibition, Hughes applies the visual language of the stripe to the sculptural form of the wearable. Displayed against as a series of graphic backdrops, the work explores the tension between body and environment, critiquing the complex theatre of public space. »

Linda Hughes -  necklace  – « It’s got legs » exhibition

« Shared Zone, is both the culmination of Linda Hughes master’s research and her first solo exhibition.
Hughes utilises the familiar urban language of invisible everyday objects such as road signs, posts and hazard markings. Juxtaposing these symbols on the body she uses them to define space and create landscape. Her work invites the wearer to become a part of the “theater of the wearable” that arises when the brooches, neckpieces and bangles are placed so as to interact and create their roles – transforming the body into a stage. »

Linda Hughes, Wing Brooch, Red & White Series, 2009, laminate and acrylic. Photography Argonaut Design

Galatée Pestre   sautoir ‘Sens Interdit’ – argent noirci, émail.

Analiese Stinson (2011 graduate from MassArt, Massachusetts College of Art and Design )- Map Bracelet #2–The Trip to School and the Long Way Home, 2011 silver, fabricated

Fabrizio Tridenti’s complex structures

Bergner Schmidt – Concrete jewellery

Benita Dekel, Massconstruction – silver & concrete (ciment)

« Benita Dekel, a graduate of the Department of Jewelry Design at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design (Israël), developed a series of jewelry pieces that combine silver with concrete. The results of the combination of concrete, which we usually associate with heavy, industrial construction, and delicate constructions in silver is that despite being made of concrete the pieces do not appear heavy. The shapes of the pieces, which are very familiar, almost as though they have been taken from various construction sites, manage to surprise both in their shape and new function« 

Todd Pownell – architectural nest

Donna Veverka – Spiral Staircase bracelet

Silvia Walz – série « Casitecturas » Victors Haus – brooch – silver, copper, enamel

Sabine Conrad – necklace Burnt Future 2011, copper, silver, wood, paint

Esther Knobel – 4 brooches From “The Mind in the Hand” series

Renzo PASQUALE – OLIMPICA – spilla (brooch) – omaggio a Palladio (2008)

Christina Elleni Cox « Changeable Cities » bracelet (on Kit&caboodle)

DECOUVERTE : Benita DEKEL

« It seems that the search for new materiality is eternal. Each year hundreds of students complete their design studies. Each year visitors come to see, gain an impression, and take a brief peek into the minds of the young graduates. To see the results of a very long process that begins with the small seed of an idea, continues with in-depth research, numerous experiments, some successful and others unsuccessful, and culminates in the finished product. A large part of this process is devoted to material.
The division is usually clear. In fashion design you study textiles, threads, fabrics, knitwear. In graphic design you study paper, cardboard, image, cutting. In industrial design you study plastics, metals, wood, and so forth. Each department and its materials. But when you mix materials and departments, the results are fascinating little surprises.

This is true of the project by Benita Dekel. A graduate (2011) of the Department of Jewelry Design at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Dekel developed a series of jewelry pieces that combine silver with concrete. The results of the combination of concrete, which we usually associate with heavy, industrial construction, and delicate constructions in silver is that despite being made of concrete the pieces do not appear heavy. The shapes of the pieces, which are very familiar, almost as though they have been taken from various construction sites, manage to surprise both in their shape and new function. «  (Design Museum Holon magazine)

Benita Dekel, Massconstruction - Photos by Ran Plotnizky.

You can almost sense Betina’s hands carving their way through concrete. The raw feeling of it takes me to the land of scaffolding and builders (Read more at Design Milk)