February 2017 - l'envers du decor

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Meeting with ByMutti
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Based in Stockholm, Eva Gernandt is a ceramist, an artist, a designer and the founder of By Mutti. Her pieces are inspired by the ocean – especially the marine history in her region – and by the old-school sailors tattoos. Eva used to sail, to build boats and to work with fishermen. Her work refers to traditional codes but the result is surprisingly contemporary. It reflects Eva’s rich personality. Can you please introduce yourself ? My name is Eva Gernandt. I am a Swedish female artist living in Stockholm. I am a ceramist, artist and designer, also an educated journalist. How would you define your universe? My universe is a gathering of the symbols of human thoughts and beliefs in the forms of patterns. It is comparable with a great spiritual internet. I have always loved to find the connections between cultures,. My universe is located at shores, or on the Sea…. The by Mutti brand…Continue Reading

ARTISTAR JEWELS

Until February 26th, Artistar Jewels is taking place at the Giureconsulti Palace in Milan, during the Milan Fashion Week. Gillo Dorfles, GianCarlo Montebello e Philip Sajet are the special guests of this edition. Designers from over 30 different countries are taking part in this fourth edition of Artistar with more than 350 creations, mostly never seen before. Created in 2012 by Enzo Carbone, Artistar celebrates and promotes thé contemporary jewellery. This international appointment allows emerging and confirmed designers to show their work and to meet jewellery experts and lovers. A rendez vous not to be missed if you are in Italy! On the front cover, a jewel by Snem Yildirim, already interviewed by L’Envers du Décor : Studio Zigzag – 1/3 Présentation More details about Artistar : Artistar Jewel 2017 23-26 febbraio 2017 Palazzo dei Giureconsulti, Milano Via Mercanti, 2 Hours: 9:30 am – 6:00 pm (open to public) Website : www.artistarjewels.com Facebook : ArtistarJewels or Artistar.it Instagram : @artistarjewels Photo…Continue Reading

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Aline K Bijoux
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Aline is an experienced jewelry designer who deepened her skills in France and in Africa. She discusses – with honesty and distance – about her choices, her tastes but also about the difficulties, delights and flaws of her job. Can you name 3 designers you like? In jewellery, I love Manfred Bischoff’s jewels, a German designer who passed away. I made very beautiful jewels in 22 carats gold and had a very playful universe. I really love Jean Boggio’s jewels, all his flowers line and his artistic sensibility because, eventually, I can do anything. Could you please name other artists you like? I love Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, I am a fan of Chagall. I love everything… I love Turner’s paintings, Italian paintings, The Renaissance, I am truly eclectic. However, I hate Andy Warhol Basquiat, Pop Art, I don’t like street art. I like finesse not too rough…Continue Reading

Aline K Bijoux
2/3 know-how

In this second article, Aline shows us her workshop. We can discover the tools that help her to create her complex and sometimes opened pieces. This visit also gives us the opportunity to know more details about her working approach and her materials choices. Where do you work? For now, in a small room at home! My workshop is divided in two, my bench and my rolling mill are in a small room and big machines (polishing machines) are in my garage. The workshop is max 10 m2, it is full. When I was in Marseille, my workshop was not at home. I moved and looked for a new workshop outside – I wanted a boutique-workshop – but rents were so high, it was not possible. What is your favourite tool? How does it work? My jewellery saw (bocfil). If we don’t have a saw, we can’t do anything! I…Continue Reading

Meeting with Aline K Bijoux
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Aline Kokinopoulos is a jewellery designer and founder of Aline K Bijoux. Born in Senegal and originally from Greece, she has been working for twenty-five years on three main themes : nature, architecture and sea. Lover of the South of France and Italy, Aline makes complex and colourful jewels with astonishing finesse. Could you please introduce yourself in a few words? My name is Aline Kokinopoulos. I have been a jewellery designer for 25 years. I haven’t studied in a classic jewellery school. I studied in a school of arts in teh South of France. It was created by professionals who are still in business. In this school, we were working on jewellery as a sculpture. We were setting up projects and learning skills thanks to it. It gives a certain freedom and no judgement from teachers. I studied there during two years. Then, I took a break, I went…Continue Reading

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Rachik Soussi
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Behind the designer, there is a contemporary jewellery lover and an observer of the next generations of jewellers. Here are more details about Rachik’s tastes and opinion about this work. © Aline Princet Can you name 3 designers you like? At the beginning, I really liked Dinh Van’s spirit, it was out of the ordinary. Later, retrospectively, it stopped there, it has not been expanded. Then, there are many references and very few at the same time. Some of my former students now create amazing pieces. For example, Galatée Pestre creates quite playful and very simple things, inspired by the ‘contemporary jewel’. Another former student, Solmaz Panahi, an Iranian designer, I produced some mock-ups for her, I really like her work inspired by her origins… I also think about Rosely Finster-Sacramento, a materials and jewel lover, who conveys a lot of sensitivity through her work. I am interested in these works, its…Continue Reading

Rachik Soussi
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Rachik has two ways to approach know-how : as a designer and as a teacher. This situation allows him to think about the usefullness of each skill and each tool. © Aline Princet Where do you work? I teach jewelry at the Afedap and at Paris Atelier in Paris, I tutored in my workshop and I create pieces that I sell to retail outlets. My workshop is at home, in Paris. What is your favourite tool? It is the bocfil, a saw. I love this tool because it provided me a nice surprise. When I finished my course, in 2002, the first thing I wanted to do was to redrill the Vitruvian Man on a one euro coin. I completely cut its contours with my bocfil and I was pleased with the result. It triggered something, I understood this tool and how it works. Unlike other tools that you don’t…Continue Reading

Meeting with Rachik Soussi
1/3 introduction

Industrial esthetics and minimalistic lines lover, Rachik Soussi is a jewellery designer and teacher who combines white metals and gemstones as a painter who explores his colour palette. Welcome to his world. Could you please introduce yourself? My name is Rachik Soussi and I am a jewelry designer since 2003. I am also a jewelry teacher at the AFEDAP and at Paris Ateliers. My former experiences are very different, I didn’t really know what I wanted to do. Jewelry was almost a coincidence more than a wish, contrarily to those who have always knew what they wanted to do. It was different for me. I tried many different activities. When I started jewelry, something happened, I didn’t want to miss it so I developed it and I started courses to learn this job. It was in 1997. How did you discover jewelry? One of my friends, Pierre Lavandier, is interested…Continue Reading

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