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woensdag 14 september 2016

Sign of Royalty

The crown of Catharina the Great on loan of the Hermitage Russia in the Hermitage Amsterdam.

(Since the real one may not leave Russia this is a copy used for movie making).

3 Moviestars who played Catharina the Great in the middle with the crown.

One for Signs, Signs here.

vrijdag 8 augustus 2014

From the golden age of cast iron is the main hall of the archeological Museum of Ireland in Dublin build between 1856-1857. For lovers of jewelry a must by the grandiose display of jewels from the beginning of mankind until the middle ages. All preserved remarkable well in the peat that covered more the 80% of Ireland and found over the years.

Here as example so called bossed and "thistle" brooches of the pre-viking penannular types.

Here a detail of the fence on the first floor. One for Good Fences here.
Yes this museum is worth a visit.

donderdag 4 juli 2013

RENÉ LALIQUE (1860 – 1945)

The same museum of my posting of yesterday had also an exhibition of the glass works of René Lalique. The famous french glass designer ( also a gifted jeweller) from the art nouveau and art deco period in france.

It is for sure worth a visit.

The dragonflies look real but are just engravings in glass. Lalique made mass production from highly designed glass possible with his own glass factory in Combs-la-Ville in 1909 by using a kind of crystal glass with 12% lead oxide ( normally 24% is used) and metal malls. The growing of the perfume industry with their glass bottles was a great help as one of the main designers for these. They must have a highly distinctive appearance and still be payable in mass production.

vrijdag 13 juli 2012

Art 5

Here you see Zindzi Wijminga of the jewelry department with her inspiration source. A coffee spoon of plastic.

Here two examples of jewels made of the plastic spoons.

zondag 31 juli 2011

work of students of the Rietveld art academy in Amsterdam

Every year the Rietveld Academy helds a exhibition of exam works. I will show you some pieces.

This student from the jewellery department had a nice solution for a fallen coffeecup.

This student had a nice idea to keep the flowers that the parents give to their laureats for the duration of the exhibition in the central staircase .

with this result.

An embroidered scan code on a dish-towel readable by iphone or whatever scanner. It really works and give you access to a movie of the student on youtube.

An inflatable table with chairs and other stuff

dinsdag 17 mei 2011

My interests

At a exhibition of work from students of the "Rietveld academie", a famous dutch art college I saw these nice balls. By rolling them over the paper they made interesting patterns.

A recent visit at the MMKA in Arnhem showed work of Spijkers and Spijkers. Dutch fashion designer twins. They where inspired by the Memphis group of Etorre Sottas from Italy.

The museum also shows a collection of new ornaments. This is a necklace by german designer Denise Julia Reytan from 2010 under the name "show me color"

From my office I saw the building on the "silodam" by MVRDV and the former corn-elevator renovated by J.v.Stigt . We are in for nice weather .