On 12 November we visited Sieraad Jewellery Art Fair 2017 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This year, there were over 100 stands! There are huge differences between these stands when you look at the kind of jewellery they show how the pieces are presented. You can find very classical pieces with a lot of gold and gemstones, but also very conceptual pieces out of unusual materials. You can really expect anything at Sieraad! Every year, there's also a main exhibition in the central aisle of the Westergasfabriek. This year, it showed jewellery from students from Idar-Oberstein Hocheschule Trier, Germany that have graduated over the past 15 years. This main expo, called Rockstars, showed a big variety of different pieces of jewellery mainly made out of stones or with stones in them. I think this was a great edition of the fair! A couple of designers caught my eye and from some I was able to bring something home with me to add to our collection. ;-) A list of the artists I particularly loved: - Loukia Richards: she and Christoph Ziegler organized an artist-in-residency-project with different international artists in Athens. Loukia herself presented beautiful hand embroidered portraits, inspired by classic iconography, made into jewellery. -Mia Maichen: she made beautiful pieces with quite graphic pictures of a rat she dissected. -Libby Ward: she used scrap materials from an old ceramic factory to create a brooch we fell in love with! - I finally got the chance to see the work by Die Vier (after unfortunately missing them on Munich Jewellery Week 2017). They're a collective of four designers: Catalina Brenes, Denise Ebert, Pia Groh and Julia Obermaier. This was the last fair they participated in as Die Vier, but I hope we will hear lots more from them in the future! - Primordiale: a brand that can be found on the border of contemporary jewellery and fashion jewellery and uses hardware to create great pieces. - T Squared: an Israeli brand by Tami Eshed that offers interesting, wearable and modern pieces with simple, but very graphical and strong shapes! Other artists I loved and will definitely follow in the future are: Konstanze Prechtl, Rachel Butlin, Francesca Verado, Cleopatra Cosulet and Anna Król. Besides the stands with jewellery, it's also very interesting to visit the stand or Ra Books. Here, you can find a wide variety of books about jewellery. I bought the new book by Marjan Unger and Suzanne Van Leeuwen: Jewellery Matters, a book on the meaning of jewellery. I've only just started reading it, but am already sure this a 'must have' for every jewellery enthusiast! The next edition of Sieraad will be from 8 untill 11 November 2018. Websites:
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5/3/2021 12:01:44 am
I have always been fascinated by the world of jewelry and guess, I hope to go run a business around the same someday. Keep sharing. Keep inspiring.
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5/3/2021 12:02:52 am
Who knew jewelry had so many things at their arsenal. Great piece. Keep inspiring.
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