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Eliana Palomo Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Dancing Gerberas Earrings in Jewelry Design
Eliana Palomo recognized for jewelry design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Dancing Gerberas Earrings by Eliana Palomo, designed for Agua De Rosas, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Jewelry Design category. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Dancing Gerberas Earrings
Dancing Gerberas is a pair of earrings inspired by the gerbera flower. The design follows the organic patterns found in Art Nouveau architecture. The earrings capture the moment when the flowers begin to dry and release their fragrance, an idea expressed through the movement of the hanging stones. Each piece is hand carved in wax, cast in sterling silver, hand polished and finished with 18 karat gold plating to separate the color of the flower from the stem. Faceted garnet drops are added by hand with gold filled wire. Each pair measures 40 mm in width and 70 mm in height.
About Eliana Palomo
AGUA DE ROSAS is a handcrafted jewelry brand created in 2011 by designer Eliana Palomo, a passionate Mexican woman who finds inspiration in art, fashion, and cultures from Mexico and around the globe. Her creations exhibit an understated style and romance which celebrates the delicate elegance present in nature and in every single woman. A fusion of art, culture, and nature is reflected in each unique and timeless piece of jewelry, which is the result of the creative process executed by Eliana Palomo and her Mexican design team, who has a superb ability to transform and breathe life into each piece. The designer expresses her love of nature through the use of organic textures.
Award Record
This recognition makes Eliana Palomo a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Jewelry Design Award
The A' Jewelry Design Award is an international jewelry design competition recognizing good jewelry designs by best jewelry designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to jewelry designers, jewelry brands, jewelers and goldsmiths from all countries. Typical entries include rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and pendants. The awarded jewelry designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/jewelry
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/100151
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/100151
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!100151
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/272111
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.aguaderosas.com.mx
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Dancing Gerberas Earrings
- Function
- Earrings
- Category
- Jewelry Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Luxury and Fashion
- Colors
- Linen, Gainsboro, Peru, Silver and Saddle Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Agua De Rosas
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Eliana Palomo
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #100151
Credits
- Team
- I normally do all the designs on sketch and use the technique hand craved in wax. The process of casting and polished is done by a third parties jewelers.
- Image Credits
- Main Image Photographer Aidee Cuevas Image 2 Photographer Aidee Cuevas Image 3 Photographer Aidee Cuevas Image 4 Photographer Tamara Uribe Model Corina Cubel
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Gerberas flowers symbolize beauty and purity. The design is the result of forms based on the patterns presented in the architecture of Art Nouveau. Nature has been captured in earrings showing flowers´ freshness that release fragrance just before taking them to a distillation process. The technique used was hand wax modeling, followed by cast in silver to obtain a master and concluded by a mold. Obtaining the final design the polishing was done carefully by hand, and finally touched with gold plate finish to differentiate the color of the flower with the stem and make it more real. This design expresses freshness and dynamism thanks to the movement of the stones.
- Inspiration
- Influenced by art nouveau the gerbera earrings are the result of experimenting with unusual angles. My intention is to reflect the moment of the flowers when they start to dry and release their fragrance, the design seeks to express freshness and femininity. Normally I start sketching all design in paper but in this case, I was mainly inspired by playing with the wax by hand until I got the final version of the earrings. I always say that this method of playing with wax is like drawing in 3D.
- Research
- The objective when I design is to convey freshness and femininity using nature as a base. My creative process begins by researching on Art Nouveau, observing the details on the architecture, fashion and patterns present in this movement where they highlight nature in organic forms. Taken this to the creative process I start directly experimenting sculpting the wax and little by little I get the expected result. The Gerbera earrings are a custom design where the essence of each person and the definition of each stone comes together.
- Challenge
- When reproducing the piece we must be very careful when the wax is injected into the mold and wait for the wax to cool to be able to detach it from the mold without breaking the stems of the flowers. The weight of the earrings was considered from the selection of the drop stones so that they were light stones taking care that they did not add much difference of grams and were comfortable and functional to use.
- Realization and Technology
- The earrings were first designed, and hand carved in wax by Eliana Palomo then the master was sent to the workshop at Yucatan, Mexico. The earrings were casted in sterling silver from the mold and carefully hand polished. Then for the gold and silver color a 18 karats of gold-plated was applied. Finally, Eliana added the drops of faceted garnets with gold-filled wire by hand.
- Operation and Interaction
- The Gerberas earrings are one of a kind, its versatile, timeless and elegant. For their size they could be considered as a Statement. This design is perfect for use on special occasions.
- Project Duration and Location
- The design started in March 2017 in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico and finished in August 2017 in the same city.
- Specifications
- Width 40 mm x Height 70 mm
- Keywords
- Earrings, Sterling Silver, Garnets, Pearls, Flowers, Gerberas
