Lotus Date Recorder Anhänger by Mana Khaloo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Eisen in Schmuckdesign Competition Category.
EisenSchmuck· 2023
Lotus Date Recorder Anhänger
by Mana Khaloo
Client: Anabell Jewelry
A' Design Award in Eisen Winner in Schmuck Category
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About Lotus Date Recorder Anhänger
Der Lotus Date Recorder ist ein Anhänger, der ein besonderes Datum festhält. Das Design trägt 31 kleine Blütenblätter für die Tage und 12 Navette-Formen für die Monate. Eine goldene Markierung auf einem Blütenblatt und einer Navette kennzeichnet das gewählte Datum, das im Uhrzeigersinn abgelesen wird. Der Anhänger ist roségoldbeschichtet und misst 50 mal 50 mal 2,5 Millimeter. Die Form ist von einem Ohrringpaar aus dem Achämenidenreich inspiriert, das auf der in die Wände von Persepolis eingravierten Lotusblüte beruht. Der Lotus galt als Symbol der Unsterblichkeit und verkörperte die Sonne sowie die zwölf Monate des Jahres.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award in Eisen
Lotus Date Recorder Anhänger ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Eisen, einer prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für gute Designs, die die beruflichen und industriellen Anforderungen erfüllen, die an gut gestaltete Schöpfungen gestellt werden. Eisen-Gewinner zeigen großes Können, hohe Spezialisierung, fachkundiges Verständnis und die kreative Kapazität ihrer Schöpfer. Von Lotus Date Recorder Anhänger wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgeschätzte, bewunderte und geliebte Schöpfung ist, die praktisch und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Eisen prämierte Design integriert bewährte Branchenverfahren und weist kompetente technische Merkmale in Verbindung mit Know-how und Talent auf. Lotus Date Recorder Anhänger wird für seine Gründlichkeit geschätzt und ist darauf ausgelegt, Verbesserungen der Lebensqualität zu liefern, die dazu beitragen, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen.
Behind the Design
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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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Image #5: Mana Khaloo, Lotus date recorder , 2022
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