“Silvery shards of cold light spangle, wink and beckon. Every surface is furred and infested; big blue crystals dangle like cubist bats from the light fittings. Little wonder the flat has been abandoned: you’d move out, too, if the crystals moved in.”

British artist Roger Hiorns is well known for his use of unusual materials in his spectacular art displays. ‘Seizure’ took place in a low rise flat in South London where he used 75,000 litres of copper sulphate to create the mystical, crystalline cave. It will go on display to the public at Yorkshire Sculpture Park this summer 2013.

Jean Epstein, 1928

The Ecosphere contains the same essential elements that are found here on Earth. It is an identical model of a balanced ecosystem where all inhabitants provide for each other to sustain a living environment. The gravel represents the Earth itself, the water is two thirds of it all, the air fills the balance in the rest of the tank, with light acting in place of fire. The final component is made up of algae, shrimp and microbes which act as life on the Earth.

Still exhibiting at the Tate Modern until the 27th May the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective, which brings together 125 of his most definitive paintings and sculptures, realises his enduring legacy in art, advertising and contemporary visual culture. With pop art motifs seen infiltrating the runways and seasonal collections, most notably at Phillip Lim, Markus Lupfer and Christian Dior, there appears to be a dot, thought bubble and teary blonde on every jumper, clutch and tee in town.

Alexandra Bruel, the Gobelin’s school educated Parisian illustrator and art director, was commissioned by British Vogue in December 2012 to create a pop art inspired jewellery set design. Using her skills as an animator, illustrator and sculptor, the models are created from painted plasticine, and evoke perfectly the child like, fun quality of the pop art zeitgeist.

Our Jewellery is lowered into the “gold bath” on a copper wire. The silver pieces are charged and once submerged, free floating atomically charged particles of gold are attracted to the silver surfaces, coating them evenly and finely in a perfect layer of gold. As the copper wire is lifted from the foaming dark water, brilliant yellow gold shapes miraculously emerge….

Bringing you in two parts an exclusive look behind the scenes at the fascinating process of fine gold plating hidden in the upper echelons of Hatton Garden’s Goldsmith Centre, we spent the afternoon at our gold platers, Eliot Fitzpatrick, and saw just how the craftsmanship of master platers and polishers Al and Reg deftly turned our pale silver into smooth bright gold. Heart FM blazing over humming machines the room is a noise, fume filled production line, run with the casual ease of two craftsmen with over 30 years experience.

Noemi at Elliot Fitzpatrick

Best Handled by Experts – The studio contains an untold number of hazardous substances

Designer and Craftsman

Able to gild, colour gild, rhodium plate, black gold plate and silver plate, Eliot Fitzpatrick has gained a reputation as one of the finest silversmiths and platers in the country, with a client base including royal families around the world, so we feel fortunate leaving our silver in their hands. Next time see our Epoch 4 jewellery plated with a fine deposit of electromagnetically charged gold particles in the fascinating gold bath.

Nightshade, 2006

Veil XVII, 2008

Northern Irish artist Mary McIntyre shows us how forgotten places can be transformed into disquieting scenes of beauty and drama. Her natural spectres are often archetypal meditations on the sublime, yet these picturesque images are often also interrupted vistas, as there appears in each scene something of the manmade and human. Utilising natural phenomena such a mist and fog to create picturesque environments, she explores how these passing lights can alter a space momentarily from the pedestrian to the eerie and extraordinary.

marymcintyre.org

Lough I

The Platform, 2010

Smattered across the AW13 runways, including Jil Sander, Haider Ackermann, and Peter Pilotto, cobalt blue has a vivid luminescence. Long rooted in Chinese art and the arching heavenly skies of the Renaissance, Cobalt in its raw form is ground laboriously into oil to form exquisite pigments. Affording Pablo Picasso his distinctive artistic Blue Period, the colour continues to enthral and inspire.

Platinum and Sapphire engagement ring

Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, 1904

‘My object is to show the jeweler’s art in true perspective where the design and craftsmanship are to be valued above the material worth of the gems, as in Renaissance times.’

Embodying his singular and unique iconography, these one off jewels were designed by Salvador Dali from 1941, and made in New York (under his scrutiny) by the infamous Argentinian silversmiths at the Carlos Academy. The collection has since passed through the hands of numerous international millionaires, museums and foundations, and after three obscure japanese residences, is now finally owned by the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation.

‘My art encompasses physics, mathematics, architecture, nuclear science – the psycho-nuclear – the mystico-nuclear – and jewelry – not paint alone.’

Plentiful in the Earth’s crust yet often dispersed, when found in their concentrate forms they often resemble plant like coral structures. Historically revered for their healing powers, their complex colours and tessellating structures are a constant source of inspiration and influence.

A psychological mystery thriller released in 1945, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ingrid Berman, the surrealist artist Salvador Dali was hired to create disturbing scenes of mental delusion. Hitchcock described this film as “just another manhunt wrapped up in pseudo-psychoanalysis.”  True  to an extent, yet Dali’s spectral dream sequences set Spellbound apart from Hitchcock’s other manhunt or psychoanalysis inspired films. Nominated in the 1945 academy awards for best picture, best special effects and best cinematography, the suspended ornamental, blinking human eyes haunt the film and for long after its audience too .

Untitled, aluminium, 2006

Originally an abstract painter Nils Folke Anderson now works in large scale sculpture. His most recent works feature interlocking geometric pieces that can be shifted into varying formations, moved, altered and left finally to stand unaided. Using the term “Reciprocal Linkage” to describe his work (a term appropriated from internet terminolgy describing the linking of multiple web pages) the squares are static yet elicit movement through rolling colour and pattern:

“In my work reciprocal linkage is the term I use to describe a basic principle of interrelation in which a number of elements which are essentially
empty frames all link through one another.”

Since the elements are interdependent and rely on one another to create and sustain their upright forms his sculptures bare a very physical sense of immediate construction. An indeterminate, liquid character emerges from self-equivalent square frames which appear as artificially sculpted as uninformed and instinctive.

www.nilsfolkeanderson.com

Folded Squares, mild steel, 2012

Folded Squares/Angle Iron, powder coated steel, 2012

Folded Squares, mild steel, 2010

It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses
-Pablo Picasso

Light Drawings — triple exposure photographs of Pablo Picasso by Gjon Mili at the artist’s home in Vallauris, 1949

 

Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs

styled by Ye Young Kim and shot by Rafael Stahelin

www.philipsmiley.com

Alexander McQueen feature photographed by Dancian

Traum I

www.alexanderbinder.de

Thank you everyone for coming to the launch at no-one

we made accessories for the STEVEYONI AW13 catwalk show.
Noemi Klein now available in Seoul, at Two Heads are Better than One

The Girl With The Dragon Attitude

photography by Rafael Stahelin

Lily Vanilli wearing our Spine Necklace.

Dorothy Shakespear

Blast magazine

Edward Wadsworth

Markus Buehler-Rasom

Stephen Toner

www. tessafarmer.com

The amazing D wearing a custom made Noemi Klein necklace in the video for What’s Mine, What’s Yours (Acoustic)

We have been in the studio for the past week working on new pieces for this year.
Super excited about what’s in store for this year and looking forward to the ride!
Here is a still life of what we put together, lots more to come in the upcoming year…
Thanks to everyone that made last year a great one and cheers to this one being even better!!!

|1.|Yohji Yamamoto waistcoat
|2.|Rasha Kahil:In your home
|3.|Carven plaid shirt
|4.|Simon and Garfunkel Live album
|5.|Noemi Klein ribcage ring (Get it here)
|7.|Noemi Klein for Beyond the Valley Tropical ring
|8.|Lena Osterman stop
|9.|Muddy Waters: The Anthology
|10.| Commes Des Garcons wallet
|11.| Monocole x Commes Des Garcons Scent Two: Laurel
|12.| Frozen Planet
|13.| The Black Keys:Chulahoma
|14.|Damir Doma Crepe sole

In the studio tinking away, listening to some Etta James and getting ready for the CIRCUS Pop-up event! It would be wonderful to see you all so please stop by! There’s going to be lots to see, eat and drink. Lots of Christmas present finds as well, so as they say, killing 2 birds with 1 stone! *Disclaimer* We do not advocate killing birds with any type of stones, we just thought it sounded good along the lines!
Check out the website for further details http://www.circus11.com/

Last night at our event. It was truly magical with delicious cocktails and canapes. Great entertainment and lots of awesome people!
Thanks to everyone that came down to support, we had so much fun meeting you all!
Xx

Beautiful Stills of our new collection by the wonderful Rasha, check out her blog here– http://rashakahilblog.blogspot.com/