Best of #jewellery

Projected necklaces, dust rings and contact lenses that become jewellery, but also silver bracelets and objects that call into question the gold’s value: discover our selection of ten traditional, visionary and provocative jewels.

Ashley Heather, Urban Mining
Jewel’s design starts from the goldsmith tradition to land into new worlds, such as jewelry that produce energy by absorbing our blood pressure, or poetic ones, like the rings made of dust, the embodiment of nothing. Find out here our top ten.


Urban Mining: Ashley Heather’s jewellery collection, presented at Design Indaba, is handcrafted using silver and gold reclaimed from circuit boards by a small refinery in South Africa.

Zaha Hadid, Silene: Zaha Hadid has designed a piece called “Silene cuff" in collaboration with the House of Aziz & Walid Mouzannar, a Lebanese fine jeweller.

Neclumi: developed by panGenerator, Neclumi is a projection-based interactive necklace that tries to answer at the trend of wearables more as jewellery rather than just gadgets.

Energy Addicts: with this jewellery collection Naomi Kizhner reflects about how far will we go to in order to “feed” our electricity addiction in the world of declining resources.

Ágústa Sveinsdóttir, Dust: Ágústa Sveinsdóttir designed Dust, a collection of jewellery that allows the wearer to experience themes of transformation and disintegration.

Nendo, single-stroke: Nendo designed a jewelry collection made of ten carat gold chains, featuring seven different necklaces and five sets of earrings.

Lovegrove, Foliates: Ross Lovegrove designed for Louisa Guinness Gallery “Foliates”, a collection of 18ct gold 3D printed ring inspired by leaves and leaf structures.

Money ornaments: with the collection Money Makes the World Go Round Tine De Ruysser makes a comment on the value that we attach to gold and money.

ID jewellery: “If you are being watched anyway, you might as well get full attention!”

Eye Jewellery: Dutch designer Eric Klarenbeek transforms a contact lens into jewellery.

 

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