Eastern Blocks Bijoux en béton by Gerda Liudvinaviciute

Eastern Blocks Bijoux en béton by Gerda Liudvinaviciute is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award d'Argent in Bijoux Competition Category.

ArgentBijoux· 2021

Eastern Blocks Bijoux en béton

by Gerda Liudvinaviciute

Client: Celsius 273

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Bijoux Category

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The Design

About Eastern Blocks Bijoux en béton

Eastern Blocks est une collection de bijoux en béton inspirée des immeubles à panneaux préfabriqués d'Europe de l'Est. La collection comprend des colliers et des boucles d'oreilles qui reprennent les formes de ces barres d'habitation préfabriquées. Le béton a été choisi pour sa légèreté, son caractère non allergène et sa résistance à la casse. Chaque pièce naît d'un dessin tridimensionnel, suivi de prototypes et de moules en silicone destinés au coulage. Les éléments en béton ainsi obtenus sont ensuite assemblés avec de l'argent et du cuir. La collection invite à porter un regard neuf sur le patrimoine architectural d'Europe de l'Est.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Eastern Blocks Bijoux en béton est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent, une reconnaissance énormément prestigieuse décernée à des designs haut de gamme, superbes et impressionnants. Les lauréats Argent sont des œuvres tout à fait brillantes et extrêmement créatives qui illustrent l'expertise, le talent et la perspicacité remarquables de leurs concepteurs. Eastern Blocks Bijoux en béton est censé être une œuvre merveilleuse, une vitrine de savoir-faire, remarquablement professionnelle et profondément innovante. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent est une invention très notable et admirée, qui sert l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. Eastern Blocks Bijoux en béton est une création très enviée qui éveille les désirs, apporte des sentiments positifs et suscite émerveillement et étonnement.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This design is wearable architecture. Concrete material and brutalist design with the story behind makes these accessories more than wearable - it's an educational, fashionable manifesto about architectural heritage and society.
Dimensions & Packaging: Necklaces approx.17.5 cm x 15.5 cm and other 18x11 thickness 0.5- 1 cm. Earrings 4x2 cm concrete detail and optional 5-9 cm silver wire long. Other earrings 14.5x2 cm.
Tags: concrete jewelry, architectural jewelry, eastern european, blockhouses, brutalist jewelry, soviet architecture, brutalist architecture, jewelry artist, jewelry designer,
Production Technology: I chose concrete material - light, non-allergenic, and less fragile to create an ode of a brutalist dystopia. First of all, I designed 3d drawings, made prototypes, and then, started to create molds for concrete details with silicon. When the concrete pieces were finished, I started metalworking with silver and leather materials.
Design Challenge: To find a form, which would be understandable, that it's blockhouse jewelry, but minimalist, aesthetic and impressive.
Research: I made monitoring of the architecture and society attitude of Eastern European houses. My objective was to find a way, how to talk about post-Soviet society and Eastern European architecture heritage in fashion accessories. The main point is to start a discussion with locals' minds about this unique architecture and spread this wearable message. In this collection, I question people’s attitudes towards Soviet heritage and invite you to take a fresh look at Soviet architecture and society's illusions.
Inspiration: The collection was inspired by Eastern European panel blockhouses as an iconic modern community symbol. Shapes of panel buildings and us - people, who live in individuality fiction, because the truth is that only a few centimeters between the walls separate us and our individuality is just fiction in this world.
Project Duration: This project started as an idea 2018 but I finished this collection 2020.
Operation Flow: Wearable jewelry made of concrete. Light, strong, and non - allergic material make jewelry more comfortable and wearable. This technology and design give a chance to wear architecture in real form and material as a piece of jewelry.
Team Members: Designer and artist Gerda Liudvinaviciute (artist name CELSIUS 273).
Image Credits: Photographer: Ieva Rudzionyte Model: Paulina Judzinskyte, Make up and hair: Indrija Kneize
Video credits:
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Model: Gabija Rostovskyte