Lacey Manchet Armbånd by Diana Sokolic is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2015 A' Design Award i Bronze in Mode- og Rejsetilbehør Design Competition Category.

BronzeTilbehør· 2015

Lacey Manchet Armbånd

by Diana Sokolic

Client: Diana Sokolic

A' Design Award i Bronze Winner in Tilbehør Category

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The Design

About Lacey Manchet Armbånd

Vi har alle skuffer fulde af blonder lavet af vores mødre og bedstemødre. Disse doyleys blev brugt som dekoration på sofaborde, tv-apparater eller lænestole. I dag har de følelsesmæssig værdi, men det nytter ikke noget. Diana Sokolic lavede manchetarmbånd med blonder mellem to plader af gennemsigtigt plexiglas. Smukke stykker lavet med kærlighed og tålmodighed har genvundet deres formål ved at forbinde vores fortid med vores nutid.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Bronze

Lacey Manchet Armbånd er vinder af A' Design Award i Bronze, en højt prestigefyldt anerkendelse, der tildeles enestående designs, som udmærker sig ved kreativitet, opfindsomhed og skarpsindighed. Bronzevinderne er rigeligt dygtige og påfaldende kreative artefakter, der bekræfter deres designeres store erfaring, fantasi og snilde. Lacey Manchet Armbånd forventes at være en højt estimeret, beundret og kær genstand, der er bemærkelsesværdigt professionel og innovativ. Dette design, der har vundet A' Design Award i Bronze, indarbejder bedste praksis inden for kunst, videnskab, design og teknologi og er fremragende på grund af sin sans for detaljer. Lacey Manchet Armbånd tilfredsstiller pragtfuldt behov, rører længsler, charmerer følelser og appellerer til nysgerrigheden.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Our great grandmothers and grandmothers were brought up to play piano, read poetry and make lace. In the 60ies, their daughters kept those lace doyleys under the glass on coffee tables and commodes. Now we have drawers full of lace and needlework. It has no use in modernly furnished flats, it hass just an emotional value.
I have made cuff bracelets with lace between two plates of transparent Plexiglas.
In this way the lace has kept its transparency, gained new use, at the same time recognizing the women who made it and those who kept it for us.
Dimensions & Packaging: 130 x 75 x 50 mm
Tags: lace,cuff bracelet, accessorie, fashion
Production Technology: Lace and PMMA
I did not want to put delicate lace in a metal frame or any other heavy material. So I decided to put it between two pieces of transparent Plexiglas.
Design Challenge: Since PMMA has to be heated in order to be bent, the most challenging part was how to heat it without burning the delicate threads of needlework and then how to connect the lace and the Plexiglas without the glue.
Research: This project was technically the most diffucult one for me. I was affraid that I will burn the lace while experimenting with different temperatures in order to bent the PMMA, since I could not experiment with something else except the lace itself.
PMMA plates have to be really hot in order to stick to one another, while the lace is between the layers.
I had to find lace doyleys which are not to big because cuffs have to be weareable.
Inspiration: From time to time I open the drawer with lace and needlework kept between sheets of thin white paper. I look at them with love and patience, expecting to hear them talking to me. I know that those pieces want to be used again, that they want to show their beauty. And one day it just happened! They talked to me!
Project Duration: I have made these bracelets in my hometown Zagreb, Croatia
and the process lasted for several month.
This project has not been shown jet.
Operation Flow: Cuffs are open at the back so one size fits all
Team Members: Diana Sokolic
Image Credits: Diana Sokolic, 2014.