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Cod Collection by Kria
New York-based Icelandic designer Jóhanna Methúsalemsdóttir of Kria based this collection of jewellery on the shapes of cod fish bones.
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Cast in silver and brass, the Cod Collection includes earrings and pendants on silver cable-chain.
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We spotted the jewellery while visiting Reykjavik for DesignMarch, which took place from 22 to 25 March - see our photos from studio visits and a walking architecture tour here.
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Photographs above were taken with the Pentax K-01 camera designed by Marc Newson, which was kindly given to us by Pentax for the trip. Photography below is by Elisabet Davids.
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Here are some more details from Kria:
Introducing the Cod Collection by Kria, a study of the form of a fish which has sustained the designer’s culture.
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From a discarded skeleton, Kria extracts details in Nature to create objects with which one can ritualise and project their imagination.
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The Kria jewellery collection is handmade by Jóhanna Methúsalemsdóttir in New York City.
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This continues a theme from previous collections of exploring ritualism with objects collected from the shores of Iceland and North America and re-imagining artifacts in a continuing veneration of natural form and the spirituality they evoke - the abdomen shell of a crayfish, the vertebrae of a transoceanic migratory bird, the bud of a flowering tree branch, the teeth of sheep, the lost talon of a barn owl - with mysticism and magic inherent in the human existence.
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The inspiration for Kria was found on a black lava beach in eastern Iceland in 2006 when Jóhanna Methúsalemsdóttir found a skeleton of an artic tern, or Kria in Icelandic, nestled in the sand.
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With the birth of her second daughter soon after came the birth of the Kria collection in 2007.
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Above: large silver cod opercle on 16” silver cable-chain
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Above: silver cod articular on 28” silver cable-chain
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Above: large silver and brass opercle on silver cable-chain
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Above: brass cod articular on 28” silver cable-chain
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Above: brass cod dentary on 18” silver cable-chain
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Above: silver cod opercle on 20” cable-chain
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Above: two brass cod branchiostegal on 22” silver cable-chain
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Above: silver and brass dentary earrings
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Above: medium brass cod dentary on 22” silver cable-chain