Eves Weapon Collier by Britta Schwalm is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2016 Golden A' Design Award in Jewelry Design Competition Category.
GoldJewelry· 2016
Eves Weapon Collier
Client: Brittas Schmiede
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Jewelry Category
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About Eves Weapon Collier
Eve's weapon is made of 750 carat rose and white gold. It contains 110 diamonds (20.2ct) and consists of 62 segments. All of them have two completely different appearances: In side view the segments are apple shaped, in top view V-shaped lines can be seen. Each segment is split sideways to create the spring loading effect holding the diamonds – the diamonds are held by tension only. This advantageously emphasizes the luminosity, brilliance and maximizes the visible radiance of the diamond. It allows for a extremely light and clear design, despite the size of the necklace.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Eves Weapon Collier is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Eves Weapon Collier is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Eves Weapon Collier creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
I love designs that need a second look. Is 'Eves Weapon' a modern necklace or a homage to an apple, to women?
The apple is the first food ever served and is a highly potential symbol for all emotions and situations a woman can face in her life. An apple stands for health, fertility, seduction, lust and sin. Think at Aphrodite, Venus or EVE.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
I designed 'Eves Weapon' to take part at HRD Award and got nominated. This resulted in being sponsored 20,2ct Diamonds to build the necklace. That was what I wanted to achieve - to work with 20,2 ct Diamonds. To work with that amount of Diamonds is gorgeous, fantastic, magnificent.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
It is on roadshows. From Milan to Antwerp to Hongkong - all over the world, what plans would I need more?
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to diamond setting in Eves Weapon Collier, using tension alone to secure 110 diamonds, represents a significant technical achievement - could you elaborate on the precision engineering challenges this presented and how you overcame them?
The Eves Weapon Collier presented significant engineering challenges, particularly in achieving the precise tension needed to secure 110 diamonds without traditional prongs. We utilized advanced CAD software to model each segment and ensure exact tolerances. The tension setting required meticulous calculation and testing to achieve the perfect balance between security and aesthetic brilliance. This process involved numerous prototypes and adjustments to guarantee both durability and visual appeal.
The dual aesthetic of Eves Weapon Collier - apple-shaped from the side view and V-shaped from above - creates a fascinating visual narrative; what inspired you to incorporate this complex duality into the design, and how does it enhance the symbolic meaning of the piece?
The dual aesthetic of the Eves Weapon Collier was inspired by the symbolic story of Eve and the apple, representing temptation and knowledge. The side view symbolizes the allure and curiosity that the apple represents, while the V-shape from above signifies the path of choice and consequence. This duality enhances the narrative by visually and symbolically capturing the essence of the story and the decisions we face in life.
The apple motif in Eves Weapon Collier carries profound symbolic weight in various cultures and contexts - how did you balance these multiple layers of meaning (love, temptation, power) while maintaining the piece's contemporary appeal?
Balancing the multiple layers of meaning in the apple motif was achieved by integrating modern design elements with traditional symbolism. The sleek, contemporary lines of the collier, combined with the intricate tension setting of the diamonds, create a piece that is both visually striking and deeply meaningful. The design subtly incorporates the themes of love, temptation, and power, allowing the wearer to connect with the piece on a personal level while maintaining a modern aesthetic.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Eve's weapon is a necklace made of 750 carat rose and white gold. It contains 110 diamonds (20.2ct), which are set by tension only.
Eve's weapon was created for HRD Awards nomination and was first presented at EXPO in Milan, Italy.
The apple is a highly potent and internationally recognized symbol, representing a range of aspects: Love, Fertility, Nurture, Beauty as well as Seduction, Temptation, Original Sin, Lust and Power. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Eves Weapon is 40cm long and has 13mm in diameter.
- Tags
- eves weapon, apple, diamond, jewellery, collier, HRD
- Production Technology
- 110 Diamonds set by tension only - this requires absolute precision. All apple-segments a laser cut. Than they were crafted by hand to make sure, that the tension is given to carry eg. a 0.5ct diamond.
- Design Challenge
- Eves Weapon was a concept that had to fit to HRD Awards Theme "A la carte". This is an international Award in which, if you were a "Nominee", you get a Sponsor for the Diamonds. 1500 designers took part - 29 received sponsorship.
- Research
- I decided to set the diamond by tension rather than other mounting methods, as this advantageously emphasizes the luminosity, brilliance and maximizes the visible radiance of the diamond. It also allows for a extremely light and clear design. The balancing act between the abstract form (seen from above) and the concrete shape (seen from the side) is visually interesting, as well as reflecting the complexity of the apple as a symbol.
- Inspiration
- The first food ever served was the apple offered by Eve.
As a symbol the apple is highly potent and represents several aspects: Love, Fertility, Nurture, Beauty as well as Seduction, Temptation, Sin, Lust, Power. All this combined summarize the charms of women - or the weapons of Eve.
To highlight the gamut of this symbol, I would like to mention a few examples:
- Forbidden fruit and the fall of mankind;
- Venus - goddess of love, beauty and fertility;
- Aphrodite and the Apple - Project Duration
- Eves Weapon was conceptually designed in Summer 2014, and finally built in March 2015. The diamonds are sponsored by Anders Diamonds. The collier took part in a professional photo shooting by D. B. Woordrow with a professional model in Antwerp. It was shown at EXPO in Milan from April till October 2015. The collier was presented in an exclusive gala by HRD Award in Antwerpen on 28.10.2015. Now it is part of the roadshow trawling the world till end of 2016 or even longer.
- Operation Flow
- The collier has two completely different appearances depending on the viewpoint. Seen in side view the ring has the shape of an apple. Seen in top view the shape is abstract and two v-shaped lines can be seen. The apple shaped ring is split sideways to create the spring loading effect holding the diamond. My design is a spin-off from the classic tension ring, as the diamond is held by tension only within the v-shaped ring.
- Patents
- Britta Schwalm
- Team Members
- Britta Schwalm
- Image Credits
- Olaf Hermann
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