Purple Orchid Ring by Yan Ni Teong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award in Jewelry Design Competition Category.
IronJewelry· 2022
Purple Orchid Ring
by Yan Ni Teong
Client: Juwelen Design
A' Design Award Winner in Jewelry Category
Verified Award Winner
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About Purple Orchid Ring
This project created from a sense of an Orchid garden. The overall design looks refreshing, vibrant and lively. It is an adjustable size ring with various shapes of Amethyst in the flower petals. The combination of colors is contrast yet attractive with purple and off-white. It consists of duo gems, Amethyst and Pearl and another Pearl with a little butterfly on it. When you wear it on, it looks like a flower and bud floating in between two fingers which contain nature feeling and momentum of movement.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Purple Orchid Ring is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Purple Orchid Ring is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Purple Orchid Ring is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
It was inspired by purple orchid flower that bloomed beautifully at my balcony. I enjoyed little beautiful things and I studied the details of the flower. I like purple flower myself and orchid represent our tropical country in Malaysia.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
I want this design to have natural feeling, lively and vibrant. I want to achieve appreciation of my work.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I will continue to design to make this world more beautiful and I wish to design more sellable design as well.
Grand Interview
Your innovative Purple Orchid Ring seamlessly blends various shapes of Amethyst into flower petals - could you walk us through your creative process of achieving this delicate balance while maintaining the orchid's natural elegance?
I always like to challenge irregularity, and by combining different shapes of Amethyst into flower petals make each of the petal has its own unique characters. I relate to every living has its unique path however we all co-exist in this world and by staying united it reflects harmonism. It’s also represented the beauty of nature where things aren’t perfect and to admire the law of nature. I want my design to look as natural as possible.
The adjustable design feature of the Purple Orchid Ring allows for versatile wearing options - what inspired you to incorporate this functional element while preserving the artistic integrity of the floating flower and bud concept?
I like my design to be versatile, to wear on different fingers. Due to this it is made to be adjustable. At the same time making it flexible, I can make the other part another unique design too which a pearl and a butterfly on top. This goes well with the concept that I am having in which all living unites harmoniously. We have flower, insect and human whom will be the wearer. When this being wear in between fingers, it looks floating especially when wearer moving the hands. For the bud concept, it is because not all flowers bloom, some are bud, again I want to make it natural and adopting the nature.
As your Purple Orchid Ring emerged from observations in your Malaysian garden, how did the local climate and cultural significance of orchids influence your choice of materials, particularly the combination of Amethyst and Pearl?
In our country of Malaysia, the climate is humid with rain or sun all year around and Orchid is the lasting flower here. For the choice of Amethyst and Pearl, I like contrast from the real Orchid whereby the petals are usually purple and the inner part of the flower is white. In real Orchid the purple petal is very attractive. Therefore, Amethyst as faceted gem is being chosen. As for the white, white is an understatement color just like pearl it is humble but elegant thus the white opaque stone such as pearl is chosen. The combination is to embrace differences.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This project created from a sense of an Orchid garden. It is an adjustable size ring with various shapes of Amethyst in the flower petals. The unique part is there is a duo main gems, apart from Amethyst there is a Pearl in the middle and another Pearl with a little butterfly on it. When you wear it on it looks like a flower and bud floating in between 2 fingers. It is also adjustable size to make it flexible to wear in index or ring finger.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Weight 6.99gm Ring Size US 5 Width 31mm Length 29mm
- Tags
- purple orchid, flower ring, amethyst ring, pearl ring, jewelry designer ring
- Production Technology
- This hand fabricated ring is made of Sterling Silver Rhodium plated set with Amethyst and Pearl with different cuts such as Marquise, Oval, Emerald and Round.
- Design Challenge
- The creative challenge part is to put together the different shapes of stones into the flower petals also to balance the size of the ring with the design I want to portray
- Research
- Study many types of purple orchids, patterns and colors
- Inspiration
- The inspiration was from my balcony which hosting a mini garden consists of various flowers and plants. Orchids are the most favorite and popular flower in our country Malaysia with hot and humid weather all year round. It was one day a moment I was sitting resting enjoying my plants and conveniently plug the blooming purple orchid. I spent some time to study the flower, petal, stem, color, pattern and I would want express my creativity and innovation into a jewelry.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2019 and finished in July 2019
- Operation Flow
- The keyframe for this project is the adjustable function, apart from size factors, thickness of the metal and practicality matters too
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