Raices Sustainable Jewelry by Mayte Ossorio Domecq Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Jewelry Design

The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Mayte Ossorio Domecq for jewelry design

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Raices Sustainable Jewelry by Mayte Ossorio Domecq, designed for Maison Domecq, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Jewelry Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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.

The Bronze A' Design Award Explained

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.

Regarding Raices Sustainable Jewelry

The design of the Raices line emerges from the need to reuse thousands of oval cuts of new leather from a safety boot factory, discarded daily for having no utility. To reuse them, the designer focused on the search for techniques that would allow to find their greatest beauty and functionality, finding inspiration in the wings of birds, the scaled, staggered and overlapping. In order to expand the color palette, it was also decided to reuse leathers from other companies.

About Mayte Ossorio Domecq

I am in love with design in all its ways. I like objects madly, I believe above all in their history. I believe in beauty and functionality and that it is not necessary to buy raw materials for them to have value. I think that as designers, it is our duty to build networks where we can design new things through the revaluation of the remaining raw material of others and in the same way work revaluing the trades, generating work in the region. I believe in design as a powerful weapon of education and awareness.

Award Record

With this recognition, Mayte Ossorio Domecq is 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to jewelry designers, jewelry brands, jewelers and goldsmiths from all countries. Entries typically include rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and pendants. Awarded jewelry designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/jewelry

About A' Design Award & Competition

A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://designers.org/139361
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/139361
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!139361
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/330211
Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.maisondomecq.com/

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: Raices Sustainable Jewelry
Function: Sustainable Jewelry
Category: Jewelry Design
Discipline: Fashion Design
Industry: Luxury and Fashion
Colors: Silver, Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Gray and Gray
Images: 5
Client: Maison Domecq

The Recognition

Laureate: Mayte Ossorio Domecq
Country: Argentina
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2021 - 2022
Design ID: #139361

Credits

Image Credits: Image No 1 PH Maru Somoza Image No 2 PH Francisco Sexauer / prod model Mercedes Garcia Di Mare Image No 3 PH Mayte Ossorio Domecq Image No 4 PH Francisco Sexauer / prod model Mercedes Garcia Di Mare

Design Details

Unique Properties: The design of the Raices line was conceived from a sustainable point of view, through the reuse of the oval left over from the Ombu safety boots. The goal: the generation of unique pieces through craftsmanship, maximizing its use and the ability to generate different patterns from color changes. We sought to minimize the reading of the difference between the ovals. The staggering allowed to minimize the differences and to take the thicknesses as a fundamental part in the generation of value and also to generate rigidity, greater solidity to the proposed pieces.
Inspiration: The inspiration for this line comes from the scales on the wings of birds. That overlapping that gains character with changes in color and depth. It was the technology of the use of a certain raw material, the leftover ovals from the manufacture of boots, which led us to look for the latent language in this material and its possible uses for the formal generation. The colors would appear later when this resource allowed us to recover very small scraps of leather from other companies.
Research: This line emerged in response to the need to reuse small scraps of discarded leather, for which its development was limited to direct experimentation. Technique used: scaling, a resource that can be assimilated to the natural structures already known, minimizing the differences in size between the ovals and, in turn, taking the thicknesses as a fundamental part of the generation of value. The objective: the generation of unique, handcrafted and durable pieces. Making the most of scraps. Expand the offer of the same piece through changes in the possible patterns by means of color changes.
Challenge: It is always a challenge to work from a given shape. The work concentrates on finding its beauty and functionality. Finding the latent message of these materials, their proportion and then, the design. The boots are made in black, brown and white. This color limitation, led us to take as an opportunity the use of small scraps from other companies, thus expanding the palette and the saleability of the pieces. Integrating the concept of corporate social responsibility and rescue of crafts.
Realization and Technology: The elaboration of this entire collection is done manually, reusing small leather ovals left over from Ombu safety boots, as well as small remnants from different local leather goods companies. It is done by hand cutting and gluing, as can be seen in the video and in some cases the incorporation of studs or rivets that add light and reinforce its character.
Operation and Interaction: This object is easy to access, easy to use and does not require help to handle it. Although this material requires certain care: do not wet, do not use alcohol and take care of it with bitumen or wax to increase its durability.
Project Duration and Location: This process of recovering materials began in 2012, incorporating new pieces and new colors year after year. Different pieces of this collection have been exhibited at the Fairs: Expocomer Panama 2014 Maison et Objet 2014-2015-2016-2017 They have been sold to the SF MOMA, Japan and France until today
Specifications: dimensions depending on the piece Hoops 75 x 85mm Bracelet 255 x 70mm Necklace 400 x 65mm Headband 135 x 65 mm Packaging 200 x 150 cm
Keywords: sustainability, leatherjewelry, sustainablejewelry, ecofriendly, sustainable, slowfashion, zerowaist