David Derksen launches Moiré jewellery at Ventura Lambrate
Milan 2014: Dutch designer David Derksen is showing his Moiré collection of layered jewellery at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week (+ movie).
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Each pendant is made from a piece of chemically etched brass, overlaid with a piece of etched stainless steel. Moving either piece creates a moiré effect.
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"If you have two layers of patterns, for example stripes or dots, and they rotate, you create a new pattern," said Derksen.
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There are five pendants in the collection. One features two discs, both perforated with circular dots.
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When the front disc is rotated from the centre, a series of expanding and contracting rings appears. A similar design, when rotated from the top, creates a series of larger dots.
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Two square discs pierced with square holes create a grid pattern. "When I started the project, I didn’t know what I wanted to make. I usually start my design process from a principle like gravity, or in this case the Moiré effect, and research it, and only afterwards do I think about how to apply it," says Derksen.
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"I had a couple of small samples on my desk and I was playing with them constantly. It was then that I thought, 'We have to make something that you can play with.' I decided that if we made a pendant, it would add something to your outfit, but you could also look at it and play with it yourself. We wanted to make playful objects."
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Moiré Jewellery is on show alongside Derksen's Oscillation Plates and Table Architecture as part of the 010 – 020 Collective at the Prometeo Gallery, Via Ventura 3, 20134 Milan Tuesday 8 April – Saturday 12 April 2014.