New Bracelets: 400+ Contemporary Jewellery Designs

Jewelry designer Johanna Törnqvist makes bracelets out of cast-off packaging materials, while Elvire Blanc Briand finds inspiration in pastry-making techniques. The results can be seen in the book “New Bracelets” (Promopress), edited by Colombia-born jewelry designer Nicolás Estrada, which features more than 400 pieces from 200 artists. Writing about her work, Nóra Tengely asks: What if we picked jewelry “not in accordance with sight, but with other senses”? Her bracelets are named after sensations that they mimic, like a “caress” bracelet made of brass and feathery polyester and a “tickle” bracelet that consists of five balloons tied to a brass circle. Steven Parker’s “Egyptian Bracelet”–made of vermeil, lapis lazuli, enamel, brass, steel and quartz–contains stylized hooded cobras and hieroglyphics that contain a riddle. Gigi Mariani also looks back millennia with “Stonehenge,” a ring of six prehistoric-looking blocks whose dark surface hides silver and yellow gold. Other artists bring a sharp sense of humor. In “Body Museum” by Wei Si of China, a thin traditional bracelet comes inside its own boxy glass display case, which is also part of the jewelry.

By Peter Saeger (Wall Stret Journal, 03/06/2021)

Helen Britton is an Australian artist who works and lives in Munich (Germany) ad is currently Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne (Australia) and a worldwide noted and multiple award-winning contemporary jeweller whose work is held in some of the world’s most important art galleries.