JANET FITCH
TREND-WATCH
A busy June kicks off the summer
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It’s the season
for hats, and
The Season
Hats creations
are irresistible
to jewellery
lovers,
lavishly
embellished as
they are with
Swarovski
crystals and
pearls
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18 JEWELLERY FOCUS
une is so busy this year
with everything from an
election, father’s day, Ascot,
Wimbledon, festivals, garden fetes
galore, GCSEs and graduations.
Jewellery graduates from over
the UK are showing their degree
collections at New Designers,
Part One (28 June -01 July) at the
Business Design Centre in London.
This year’s One Year On is 25%
larger, with 18 jewellery designers
who now have work experience
and a career path.
Chloe Lewis is a 2016 graduate of
the University of Dundee, Duncan
of Jordanstone, a contemporary
art jeweller combining her passion
for the environment and love
of experimentation and metal
work skills to produce statement
jewellery highlighting the issue
of rising sea temperatures in the
Arctic. Since graduation Chloe
has developed a commercial
collection, ‘Impacts of Climate
Change’ exploring temperature
fluctuation through drop water
casting using pewter. The resulting
ice and frost flower clusters of glass
and resin on silver earrings, rings
and pendants are now selling at
www.notonthehighstreet.com
Dovile Kondrasovaite is a
Lithuanian jewellery artist and
graduate of Vilnius Academy
of Arts, who has been teaching
jewellery making in Vilnius as well
as producing her own collections.
Dovile moved to Birmingham’s
Jewellery Quarter at the end of
2015, broadening her outlook
and creativity, resulting in the
collection ‘Flow’ inspired by the
Mamm + Myrgh
Nambé Jewelry
Mateu Gallery
energy of flow and growth, that she
is showing at OYO 2017 - organic
and natural shapes in natural raw
Baltic amber and bog oak.
Mamm + Myrgh is a mother-
and-daughter team of goldsmiths
based in Cornwall. The name
means mother and daughter in
the ancient Cornish language.
Mother Amanda Maltwood is an
experienced goldsmith, daughter
Greta Kaniok is a jewellery
designer with expertise in CAD
design and sales consultancy. The
collection showing at OYO 2017
references the sculptural forms
and textures along the rugged
and wild Cornish coastline, and
in addition to new styles in silver
they are introducing a small
range in solid 18ct Fairtrade gold.
(www.newdesigners.com)
Last year I profiled the Central
St. Martin’s Jewellery Design
MA degree show collection, Per
Inciso, (to be engraved) of Giada
Giachino,
using
sustainable
alternatives to traditional coral
and cameo production derived
from lobster fishing industry
waste, with a similar subtle colour
palette. This year, Giada launched
the commercial version of the
collection at Pulse London in May
to target high-end independent
stores:
wearable
pendants,
chokers and rings in nude and
brown. The shells are cut by
skilled experts in Naples, and
sent to Giada’s London studio, to
be set in resin and sterling silver.
(www.giadagiachino.com)
Newly launching into the
UK market is Nambe Jewelry,
June 2017 | jewelleryfocus.co.uk