Rhapsody Κολιέ by Arash Raad is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Ασημένιο Βραβείο A' Design Award in Σχεδιασμός Κοσμημάτων Competition Category.

ΑσημένιοΚοσμήματα· 2021

Rhapsody Κολιέ

by Arash Raad

Client: Arash Raad

Ασημένιο Βραβείο A' Design Award Winner in Κοσμήματα Category

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The Design

About Rhapsody Κολιέ

Το Rhapsody είναι ένα χειροποίητο κολιέ κατασκευασμένο από ασήμι 925. Ο σχεδιασμός βασίζεται σε ισλαμικά γεωμετρικά μοτίβα που αναπτύχθηκαν επί αιώνες στη Μέση Ανατολή και τη Βόρεια Αφρική. Γλυπτικές πτυχές και σούρες μετατρέπουν τη γωνιώδη γεωμετρία αυτών των μοτίβων σε μια φορητή μορφή που ακολουθεί το ανθρώπινο σώμα. Το Rhapsody παράγεται στη Μασχάντ του Ιράν, μια πόλη γνωστή για τις παραδοσιακές τέχνες, με τη χρήση παραδοσιακών εργαλείων, τεχνικών και υλικών. Το κολιέ έχει διαστάσεις 175 επί 160 επί 45 χιλιοστά. Η πρόθεση είναι να συνδεθεί μια πλούσια πολιτιστική κληρονομιά με τον σύγχρονο σχεδιασμό κοσμημάτων.

The Recognition

About the Ασημένιο Βραβείο A' Design Award

Το σχέδιο Rhapsody Κολιέ κέρδισε το Ασημένιο Βραβείο A' Design Award, μια τεράστια διάκριση κύρους που απονέμεται σε σχέδια κορυφαίας ποιότητας, πανέμορφα και εντυπωσιακά. Οι νικητές του Ασημένιου Βραβείου είναι εξαιρετικά λαμπρά και ιδιαίτερα δημιουργικά έργα που απεικονίζουν την εξέχουσα εμπειρογνωμοσύνη, το ταλέντο και την οξυδέρκεια των σχεδιαστών τους. Το σχέδιο Rhapsody Κολιέ αναμένεται να είναι ένα υπέροχο, αντιπροσωπευτικό έργο, αξιοσημείωτα επαγγελματικό και βαθιά καινοτόμο. Αυτό το σχέδιο που βραβεύτηκε με το Ασημένιο Βραβείο A' Design Award είναι μια ιδιαίτερα αξιοσημείωτη, θαυμαστή εφεύρεση που ωφελεί και προωθεί τα όρια της τέχνης, της επιστήμης, του σχεδιασμού και της τεχνολογίας. Το σχέδιο Rhapsody Κολιέ είναι μια πολύ ζηλευτή δημιουργία που προκαλεί επιθυμίες, φέρνει θετικά συναισθήματα και πυροδοτεί έκπληξη και θαυμασμό.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Rhapsody is a hand-crafted fine jewellery designed for today’s most elegant and sophisticated tastes, while it revives the glory of Middle-Eastern cultures and their rich and epic history. It is made by employing traditional techniques and material in Mashhad city in Iran, a destination of Muslim pilgrimage and a center of traditional crafts. Rhapsody is a modern wearable sculpture based on Islamic geometry that is made for anyone who is eager for an elegant and stylish look.
Dimensions & Packaging: Dimension: 175 mm x 160 mm x 45 mm
Material: Silver 925
Tags: Jewelry, jewellery, necklace, art jewelry, art jewellery, geometric jewelry, geometric jewellery, contemporary jewelry, contemporary jewellery, accessories
Production Technology: Design begins with searching through a variety of Islamic geometry sources to select capable patterns to be developed into a novel design. Designing continues with developing irritations through hybrid hands-on and digital process, and then narrowing down sketches and producing mock-ups. The next is trying mock-ups on the human body, collecting feedback from users, and refining the product through a round of revisions. The jewelries are hand-crafted with traditional techniques and material.
Design Challenge: In this project, we encountered two significant challenges. First, we are committed to design jewelleries that are innovative and fresh to a contemporary eye, while they are rooted in history. Tightrope walking and maintaining balance between the past and future is the hardest creative challenge we often encounter. Second complicated challenge we faced was to transform the angular geometry of architectural patterns into a sculptural and wearable form that fits and adorns the human body.
Research: In the first instance, I'm working with patterns and geometry embedded in Islamic architecture and design, which I have grown up surrounding by it, therefore it's organically inherent to my knowledge of design. Over the course of years, I have integrated the vernacular knowledge of Islamic geometry with the contemporary aesthetics and theories. For this project we searched through over 200 different patterns to find one through which we can develop a wearable, innovative, and elegant design.
Inspiration: This project is inspired by Islamic geometric patterns that have evolved over centuries in the Middle East and North Africa. The sculptural folds and ruffles recall the vicissitudes of history and life of these people, where its glory and beauty is woven together with pain and grief. And its rigidity and cohesion manifest the strength, richness and glory of a culture and people that have been hardened through conflicts and invasions and have been invincibled with the power of love and beauty.
Project Duration: This project started in February 2020 in Mashhad, Iran and the first sample produced in December 2020. A' Design Award & Competition will be the premiere introduction of this product to the world.
Operation Flow: Influenced by the Middle-Eastern cultural pride and growing tendencies towards revisiting the heritage, in Arash Raad Design, we are dedicating our effort to create products that fulfills both the dignity of a rich culture, and the elegance of today. We believe “Rhapsody” conveys authenticity and novelty at the same time. To aim this goal, we combined vernacular knowledge and traditional tools and material with contemporary aesthetics and theories.
Image Credits: Image #1:Photographer Mojtaba Mohammadi, Rhapsody, 2021. Image #2: Photographer Mojtaba Mohammadi, Rhapsody, 2021. Image #3: Photographer Mojtaba Mohammadi, Rhapsody, 2021. Image #4: Photographer Mojtaba Mohammadi, Rhapsody, 2021. Image #5: Photographer Mojtaba Mohammadi, Rhapsody, 2021.
Video: Director Ali Ebrahimi Sani, Rhapsody, 2021.