Gehry absolutely can not be considered the first one to enter high-level architects of the jewelry industry in Canada -shift from designing skyscrapers designed bracelet, France’s Andrea Putman has also been for the French Queensland Court (Christofle) effect, but the cooperation of Gehry and Tiffany marks him this level of the world’s top designers and a jeweler’s first joint. As a result, 150 — 1 — can be described as the introduction of products of great significance, it may even lay the foundation for a new cross-cultural cooperation.
76-year-old Gehry reputation for big-budget construction project is known, the construction industry in 1989 won the highest award a Pulitzer Prize, and his representative, including Los Angeles, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, Heim Gallery, Paris-based American Cultural Center, the leading publisher of fashion Gongdenasi coffee shop, etc.. However, like many architects, Gehry had never thought to design jewelry. So, when Tiffany called him, he quickly responded: “I have been very interested in this, I want to do are those that I have never considered it.”
As for Tiffany, this is it since 1980 with the famous painter Pablo Picasso’s daughter Paloma its cooperation, once again with an artist “marriage.”
Gehry turned to Tiffany unprecedented originality. As a “layman”, Gehry’s perspective derived from a series of interesting materials with novel products, including polished and oxidized black gold, silver and crystal hair, black jade, brown and white striped agate opal and so on. He even used the wood, this material has long existed in Gehry’s own design vocabulary, but in terms of Tiffany is new. Now, Australia’s bitter apricot, African ebony, and exotic mahogany in Latin America have appeared in the Gehry-designed bracelet and a ring of.
When he first saw his ideas into a value of 600 U.S. dollars a lavender silver pendant, the mind Gehry’s first thought is “will it really like garbage.” And when this strap is worn on a model’s neck, the “It seems to be immediately injected vitality” — like the construction works must be used the same vitality. Gehry found between the two in common.
Gehry to design the whole process of jewelry called “challenging”, “is entirely a creative process, the design is never an easy thing”, but he also said, Tiffany sketches of his designs and structural changes in into the capacity of jewelry has left a deep impression. And Tiffany, vice president of marketing, Jon King said the company “believes him as an artist’s ability,” do not want him to set “rules or boundaries,” so, Gehry jewelry designer be able to get rid of the general “all the burden of and limitations. ”
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Designing jewelry for Tiffany before the Gehry jewelry design never seen as a high-level design. “I often concerned about the fashion design, because it is fashionable to understand people’s taste a window,” Gehry said, “but I used to think that diamond ring is just how cutting things, basically, and design has nothing to do. Moreover, it is then the micro – , how can I intervene in it? ”
