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Happy End!

March 31st, 2012 · 6 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work, Uncategorized

Over the last few weeks I told you here several times about the start and the designing process of a commission we worked on for Museum de Buitenplaats in Eelde, The Netherlands. In the meantime we finished a complete line of jewelry and guess what … the Museum liked all the pieces we made and our [...]

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Jewelry from nature

March 29th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Jewelry, Nature

Edgar Filipe Silva Mosa, is a young jewelry designer born in Lisbon, Portugal,1986. Educated at 2009/2011 Master of Fine Arts, Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI, USA – 2005/2009 Bachelor Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL and 2001/2004 Art and Design Education, António Arroio, Lisbon, PT. Edgar has won many grands and was featured in even [...]

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On Sunday …

March 18th, 2012 · 11 Comments · Jewelry, Life, Woodwork

What are we doing today you wonder? Making tables for our upcoming SPRING PRESENTATION. Always a challenge, to come up with something new to show of our jewelry! We bought 2 thick oak planks, planed them smooth and put oil on them. As I write this Jan is making the legs underneath the table. In [...]

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Remember the Lapis Lazuli?

March 16th, 2012 · 7 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work

A few weeks ago I showed you this strand of Lapai Lazuli beads. This is the natural color, by that I mean the beads are not painted blue … the Lapis stones have in some places a tiny dot of (gold) pyrite and have a matte finish … This is what I made, a simple [...]

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Alexander Calder’s jewelry

March 7th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Art, Fashion, Jewelry, Life

“THE GREAT DISCOVERY” ALEXANDER CALDER Through 28 mei 2012, Gemeente Museum The Hague, The Netherlands. Click here for more info. Jan and I are planning on going to visit this exhibition. It’s a large overview of his work, mostly his mobiles and sculptures. I am looking forward to it, I think his work is very [...]

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First signs of Spring!

March 5th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Ceramics, Fashion, Jewelry, My Work

Although the weather is still cold and gray, the first signs of spring are here … Spotted between my blooming snowdrops, Sterling silver Tulip brooch. Jan made this brooch to order. Like to see the response of the person who received this brooch? Click here These really nice Garden labels were seen in here… And [...]

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Jewelry for Museum de Buitenplaats

March 2nd, 2012 · 8 Comments · Jewelry, My Work, Work in progress...

Today I like to show you the progress we have made with the assignment of  Museum de Buitenplaats in Eelde, The Netherlands. As I wrote here earlier, we were approached by the museum with the request to design some pieces of jewelry inspired by their logo. Logo of Museum de Buitenplaats. This is what we [...]

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5 exhibitions at Gallery Marzee, The Netherlands

February 28th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Jewelry

With the works of great jewelers, among them Flora Vagi … … and Karola Torkos.

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Colorful and austere jewelery

February 22nd, 2012 · 3 Comments · Fashion, Jewelry, Textile Art

Are colorful and austere words that go together? In the case of the jewelery of Ingeborg Vandamme, I think both words are certainly applicable. And what a wonderful mix of materials and techniques Ingeborg uses in her jewelry. Ingeborg Vandamme lives and works in Amsterdam. In Tilburg she attended the teacher training handicrafts and textile [...]

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Work in progress

February 17th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Jewelry, My Work, Work in progress...

Museum De Buitenplaats in Eelde, The Netherlands has asked us to design and make some pieces of jewelry for their Museum shop. That is we were asked  to make a proposal for a brooch, pendant and earrings … Museum De Buitenplaats As a starting point we take the logo of the Museum. The logo is [...]

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