Lotus Date Recorder Кулон by Mana Khaloo

Lotus Date Recorder Кулон by Mana Khaloo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Жалезная прэмія A' Design Award in Дызайн ювелірных вырабаў Competition Category.

ЖалезаЮвелірныя вырабы· 2023

Lotus Date Recorder Кулон

by Mana Khaloo

Client: Anabell Jewelry

Жалезная прэмія A' Design Award Winner in Ювелірныя вырабы Category

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The Design

About Lotus Date Recorder Кулон

Book Text: "Рэгістратар даты лотаса" — гэта кулон, які захоўвае асаблівую дату. Дызайн уключае 31 маленькую пялёстку для дзён і 12 фігур маркіз для месяцаў. Залатая пазнака на адной пялёстцы і адной маркізе паказвае абраную дату, якая счытваецца па гадзінніку. Кулон пакрыты ружовым золатам і мае памеры 50 на 50 на 2,5 міліметра. Форма натхнёная набору завушніц эпохі Ахеменідскай імперыі, заснаваных на выяве кветкі лотаса, выразанай на сценах Персаполіса. Лотас быў сімвалам несмяротнасці і ўвасабляў сонца і дванаццаць месяцаў года.

The Recognition

About the Жалезная прэмія A' Design Award

Lotus Date Recorder Кулон — пераможца Жалезнай прэміі A' Design Award, прэстыжнага прызнання, якое прысуджаецца добрым дызайнам, што адпавядаюць прафесійным і прамысловым патрабаванням, чаканым ад добра распрацаваных твораў. Жалезныя пераможцы дэманструюць вялікае майстэрства, высокую спецыялізацыю, экспертнае разуменне і творчыя здольнасці сваіх стваральнікаў. Чакаецца, што Lotus Date Recorder Кулон — гэта высока цэнены, захапляльны і любімы твор, практычны і інавацыйны. Гэты дызайн, што атрымаў Жалезную прэмію A' Design Award, інтэгруе лепшыя галіновыя практыкі і мае кампетэнтныя тэхнічныя характарыстыкі, звязаныя з ноу-хау і талентам. Lotus Date Recorder Кулон паважаецца за грунтоўнасць і прызначаны даваць паляпшэнні якасці жыцця, што дапамагаюць зрабіць свет лепшым месцам.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The Lotus collection is rare since it records special dates. All the collection's necklaces are similar in their basic form, but they are unique, as they each show a specific date. There are 31 small petals as the days, and 12 marquises to indicate the months. You will be gifted by your own date keeper. A gold marking on the picked petal and marquise corresponds to show the desired date. The date is read clockwise. The recorded date on the pendant shown as the main image is Oct 7th (My Birthday).
Dimensions & Packaging: This gold pendant is rose gold plated in dimension of : length 50 mm x Width 50 mm x Height 2.5mm. The gold piece of jewelry weighs 20 grams, including 30 petal-shaped gems and 11 emerald marquise gems in the size of 8 mm.
Tags: jewelry, date recorder, calendar, pendant, design, lotus, achaemenid, culture, interaction
Production Technology: Pencil sketches,Adobe Illustrator,3D Modeling
Design Challenge: Rearranging the petals in a way to correspond to the number of days and months while keeping the original form of the Achaemenid lotus earrings was challenging , deciding on what colors could be felt more as real lotus flower while representing the Iranian nobility was another challenge.
Research: Spending a long time to find the conceptual aspect and symbolic meaning of the twelve-petaled rosette, it was decided to rearrange the petals in Achaemenid earrings the way that represent the 31 days of a month, and the 12 months of a year in order to be able to record the date of a special event.
Inspiration: The matchless pendant is inspired by the set of earrings from the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, that is now being exhibited in the Louver museum. The shape of these earrings is taken from the twelve-petaled rosette, based on the lotus flower that is engraved on almost all walls in Persepolis. This flower was the symbol of immortality and perpetual beneficence, and also embodies the sun and the twelve months of the year. That had been held by an emperor, as a sign of peace and union and a symbol of Anahita, the goddess of water and wisdom in the ancient Persian empire.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2019 in Shiraz/Iran. The first production of the collection in silver was exhibited in Mehregan Exhibition, Tehran/Iran in Oct 2019.
Operation Flow: I personally believe an intelligent design is about creating an art that stays in mind. Having a magnificent symbolic background, the lotus pendant tells a meaningful story of time.
Image Credits: Image #1: Mana Khaloo, Lotus date recorder , 2022
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