SO MINT! I AM ROOTED, BUT I FLOW by Shuting Qiu

New York Jewelry Week 2020

New York City Jewelry Week is the first and only local week dedicated to promoting and celebrating the world of jewelry through educational and innovative focused programming.

The inaugural NYCJW welcomed 10,000 arts and culture enthusiasts who explored the multifaceted jewelry industry through ground-breaking exhibitions, panel discussions led by industry experts, exclusive workshop visits, heritage-house tours, innovative retail collaborations, and other unforgettable one-of-a-kind programming created by the best and brightest in the industry. Year One partners included The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MAD Museum, The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Christie’s, Bergdorf Goodman, Verdura, David Webb, Mahnaz Collection, Featherstone Design, Bulgari, Fred Leighton, Lulu Frost, Greenwich Street Jewelers, 92nd Street Y Jewelry Center, and many more.

November 16th – 22nd 2020
nycjewelryweek.com

THIN AIR at OHMYBLUE

Due to the measures in effort to halt coronavirus spread, the show expected to open on February 29 is temporarily cancelled but will be soon rescheduled.

THIN AIR – Shachar Cohen

The forms of Shachar Cohen’s brooches, pendants and colliers seem familiar at first glance. But looking closer, one loses the benchmarks and the forms originality starts to take over. Cohen creates the corpuses of his jewellery from blown and welded stainless steel sheet. He uses the very same welding machine for the decoration of the surface. This is where the masterly manipulation comes into play: the moment the tool you build the object with is utilised to decorate the same. Back then as well as today, mankind is in need of a symbolic level to experience transcendence. Irrespective of religion or ideology the ability to believe is what secures humans. It is the expression of seeking something that would echo our longings, desires, and hopes.

Opens 29-02-2020
Campo San Toma
Venice, Italy
ohmyblue.com

June 13, 2019

If I were not a designer, a writer would be my dream.

My way of expression has gradually changed from words to relying on visuals to deliver emotion. I worship Virginia Woolf; her persona is an inspiration, and I want to render her in my collection. Visual inspiration came from my trip to Mumbai this year: rich colors of India and the textures of beaded embroidery. Referencing English style, I will combine masculine tartan fabrics with rich floral prints and cut and suiting with colorful beaded embroidery, so as to present a free and heroic, romantic and neurotic ‘writer’.

Jewellery inspired by the ethnic headpieces and hairstyle, collaboration with Vann Kwok.