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Images of our Jewelry Presentation 2012

April 25th, 2012 · Jewelry, Life, My Work

The first weekend of our jewelry exposition is behind us!  Our collection of BIG BROOCHES was presented to the public! Always very exciting … but everything went well with quite a few visitors and positive responses to our new collection …

Gallery Terbeek, the location of our presentation is a gallery with a great ambiance. Our tables looked stunning in the large, beautiful space.

Therefore I had thought taking photos would be a piece of cake but it was not. For some reason the light in the gallery made ​​the pictures look dark and yellow. I hope these images still give you a bit of an impression … or else I recommend you’ll come to Beetsterzwaag coming weekend (April 28-29, 2012) and see our jewelry in real life! Click here for the correct information.

The homemade tables with our jewelry

Jewelry Exposition Atelier The Jewelry Story

Ceramics in Gallery Terbeek in Beetsterzwaag, The Netherlands

Ceramics

Me in Gallery Terbeek

Gallery Terbeek Beetsterzwaag

For more pictures please click here.

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Salone del Mobile 2012

April 23rd, 2012 · Design

Doshi Levien is a London based design office, established in 2000 by Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien.

At salone del mobile during Milan design week 2012, Doshi and Levien showed CHANDLO a dressing table they made for BD barcelona design.

Modern dressing table

The dressing table refers to the Bindi worn by Indian women on their forehead, the vanity is a composition of elements based on the ritual of dressing and grooming oneself.

Modern dressingtable

Also from Doshi Levien is this sofa. The designers named the couch MY BEAUTIFUL BACKSIDE …

blue sofa Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien

… and this is why.Backside of blue couch

 

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Exposition of “The Big Brooches”

April 21st, 2012 · Jewelry, Latest Design, Life, My Work, Uncategorized

Today our Atelier will be closed because of the launching of our series “Big Brooches”

The exposition takes place April 21-22 and April 28-29, 2012 from 13.00-17.00 hours in Gallery Terbeek in Beetsterzwaag, The Netherlands.

If you like to see a preview … please click over here to read the wonderful post Montserrat Lacomba wrote about our new line of brooches.

PS
Today I saw the first swallow … hooray… summer is on its way!

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Typical Dutch

April 19th, 2012 · Architecture, Life, Nature, Typical Dutch, Walking the Dogs

Today I like to show you some typical Duch images …

This is the recently opened Maritiem & Jutters Museum (Beachcombers and Sailors Museum) on the island of Texel, The Netherlands. It’s a great building I think.

Maritiem & Jutters Museum Texel

The architects Mecanoo from Delft have provided the building with four interlinked, playful roofs. The thought behind this is that the peaked roofs, which seem to stab from the sea as waves above the dike, blend into the village roofs.

Maritiem & Jutters Museum, The Netherlands

I see this farm many times on my daily walk with the dogs. Not very a very interesting building but I thought the shape of the roof would make a nice picture in the misty morning light. The farm is a typical farm from the northern region of The Netherlands, where I live.

Frisian farm

This is a typical Dutch biking path in an even more typical Dutch landscape, under very Dutch skies. Often I walk along this canal with my 2 dogs … not seeing anybody for miles …

Dutch landscape bikingpath

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New jewelry

April 17th, 2012 · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work, Uncategorized

A few last minute pieces …

Last week we made a few more jewelry pieces. These pieces are the last ones we are making for the Jewelry Presentation we are having coming weekend. Two new brooches by my partner Jan Kerkstra of Atelier The Jewelry Story and the long necklace is a made by me.

Brooch, wood, gold, pearl

Big brooch pine wood, gold pearls

Brooch, pine gold, pearl

Brooch wood gold pearl

The necklace is made for a lady who wanted a really long necklace; something with red, maybe silver and she wanted to wear it on a dark blue dress … hope she likes it.

Long necklace silver coral hematite beads

Like to join us at our coming exposition? Just click here

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Dutch fashion

April 16th, 2012 · Fashion

Barbara Munsel is a young, talented designer from The Netherlands. She makes fabric, clothing and jewelry.

Model with red hair Barbara Munsel

She is inspired by poetry …

Barbara Munsel dress

… art history, nature, abandoned textiles …

Girl with red hair

… imperfections and forgotten artisanry.

Barbara Munsel clothing dresses

You can find the selling points for her clothing on her blog.

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Our Jewelry Presentation 2012

April 13th, 2012 · Jewelry, Latest Design, Life, My Work

Almost there! Next Friday we are going to set up and arrange everything for our Spring Presentation in Gallery Terbeek in Beetsterzwaag, The Netherlands.

The weekend of April 21 and 22 and April 28 and 29 2012 we are showing our new series of Big Brooches, our latest rings and necklaces.

Invitations have been send out, a newsletter and press release are in the making, cheese and wine are ordered, our jewelry is labeled with petite hangtags and the 2 homemade tables are waiting in the barn.

The latest brooche Circles, silver and wood by Marion Pannekoek

Big wooden brooch, silver pine

Do you want to join us in this jewelry exposition?  You are very welcome, just sign up here and you will receive an invitation.

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Graphic and geometric jewelry

April 11th, 2012 · Jewelry, Uncategorized

Tore Svensson is a jeweler I greatly admire. Tore lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Only a few weeks ago the beautiful and very informative blog of Montserrat Lacomba had a post about Tore Svenssons latest work; his brooches. Today I like to show you some of his older work.

This very graphic necklace is made of steel. Not something you wear everyday, and maybe not something you wear ever. But I love Svensson’s approach to treating flat surfaces of geometric shapes. ( Photo via Klimt )

Geometrc necklace Tore Svensson necklace

Tore Svensson houses steel and gilt

Tore Svensson only makes a few steel bowls a year. These bowls are raised- that is beaten with a hammer, into this shape, over a steel stake. It is a painstaking slow process.

Tore Svensson bowl steel handraised

For nearly two decades he has been making the same simple form: the few bowls he makes each season hardly vary in size and form from their predecessors.

Tore Svensson black bowl steel raised

You can find more info and photos on Tore Svenssons site.

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Beautiful Moments, my Tumblr blog

April 10th, 2012 · Art

My Tumblr blog is called “Beautiful Moments”. On it I gather images, which I find beautiful, and inspirational. I do this pure for relaxation; it is seldom that I follow a link to see what is behind the image, for me my Tumblr is all about visual beauty and not words.

Last week while hunting for a blogpost for the Latest Story blog I came across a photo of the studio of Mari Andrews …

studio of Marian drews

… and remembered the image from about a year ago when I placed it on my Tumblr. This time I did follow up the link and discoverd the amazing work of this artist with the great looking studio.

Sculpture made of wire by Mari Andrews

Wire sculpture by Marian Drews

The work of the American Mari Andrews has evolved out of years of drawing and obsessive collecting. Through sculpture she weaves these two actions together.

Honeycomb by Mari Andrews, bark, acrylic and various objects.

honeycomb Marian Drews

Wire, pine needles, branches and other linear material carry on the drawing practice while moving the work into the sculptural realm.  She spents a lot of time gathering, cleaning and storing collected objects, sometimes man-made, mostly natural.

Sculpture, wire, leaves, pasta

sculpture by Marian Drews

To see more of Mari Andrews work, please go to her site.  And for my Tumblr click here. (click in the menu bar on ARCHIVE and you’ll see an overview of all my pictures, click the photos to enlarge)

 

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Handmade paper

April 7th, 2012 · Art, Textile Art

Susan Warner Keene is a Toronto-based artist working in handmade paper and textiles who has been exhibiting in Canada and internationally since 1980.

“In this series I am using the fluid medium of papermaking to observe the power of water to form and imprint our world.”

Susan Warner Keene blue handmade paper

1996,  flax paper, linen thread, 29 x 44 x 4 cm/ 11.4 x 17.3 x 1.5 in.

Susan Warner Keene paperworks

2010, handmade flax paper, linen thread, pigment, 19.5 x 19.5 x 1.25 in./ 50 x 50 x 3 cm

Susan Warner Keene handmade paper

This is what Susan tells us about her work:

“My work in handmade paper concentrates on the membrane of the page as an expressive form in its own right, not simply as a support. To me, a sheet of paper represents a unique conjunction of the human capacities for making and for communicating. The objects I make are the result of thinking through the implications of this dialogue between material and experience.”

These are just 3 images of Susan Warner Keene’s work, see lots more on her site here

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