Lacey Manschettenarmbänder by Diana Sokolic

Lacey Manschettenarmbänder by Diana Sokolic is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2015 A' Design Award in Bronze in Accessoiredesign Competition Category.

BronzeAccessoire· 2015

Lacey Manschettenarmbänder

by Diana Sokolic

Client: Diana Sokolic

A' Design Award in Bronze Winner in Accessoire Category

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The Design

About Lacey Manschettenarmbänder

Wir alle haben Schubladen voller Spitzen, die von unseren Müttern und Großmüttern hergestellt wurden. Diese Doyleys wurden als Dekoration für Couchtische, Fernseher oder Sessel verwendet. Heutzutage haben sie einen emotionalen Wert, aber keinen Nutzen. Diana Sokolic fertigte Manschettenarmbänder mit Spitze zwischen zwei Platten aus transparentem Plexiglas. Wunderschöne Stücke, die mit Liebe und Geduld hergestellt wurden, haben ihren Zweck wiedererlangt und verbinden unsere Vergangenheit mit unserer Gegenwart.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Bronze

Lacey Manschettenarmbänder ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Bronze, einer hochprestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für herausragende Designs, die sich durch Kreativität, Einfallsreichtum und Scharfsinn auszeichnen. Bronze-Gewinner sind reichlich geschickte und auffallend kreative Artefakte, die die große Erfahrung, Fantasie und Findigkeit ihrer Designer belegen. Von Lacey Manschettenarmbänder wird erwartet, dass es ein hochgeschätztes, bewundertes und geliebtes Objekt ist, das bemerkenswert professionell und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Bronze prämierte Design verkörpert bewährte Verfahren in Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie und ist hervorragend in seiner Liebe zum Detail. Lacey Manschettenarmbänder befriedigt Bedürfnisse auf großartige Weise, berührt Wünsche, bezaubert Gefühle und spricht die Neugier an.

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.