Happiness Broche, Colgante by Xiaojie Hu

Happiness Broche, Colgante by Xiaojie Hu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Bronce in Deseño de Xoiería Competition Category.

BronceXoiería· 2022

Happiness Broche, Colgante

by Xiaojie Hu

Client: Hu's Cloisonné Jewellery

A' Design Award de Bronce Winner in Xoiería Category

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The Design

About Happiness Broche, Colgante

A Felicidade é unha peza de xoiaría que se pode levar como broche ou como colgante. O deseño amosa unha pega ao carón do bambú, dous motivos vinculados na cultura oriental á boa fortuna e ao carácter nobre. A pega está feita coa técnica tradicional de cloisonné, que lle confire á ave cores e texturas ricas. O bambú está feito de ouro e prata, engastado con diamantes e esmeraldas. Cada paso complétase á man, incluíndo o traballo de fío, o esmaltado, a cocción repetida a altas temperaturas e o pulido. A intención é achegar un oficio tradicional á xoiaría moderna.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronce

Happiness Broche, Colgante gañou o A' Design Award de Bronce, un recoñecemento altamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños sobresaíntes que se distinguen pola creatividade, o enxeño e a sagacidade. Os gañadores Bronce son artefactos amplamente hábiles e sorprendentemente creativos que autentican a vasta experiencia, imaxinación e enxeño dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Happiness Broche, Colgante sexa un obxecto moi apreciado, admirado e querido, notablemente profesional e innovador. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Bronce incorpora as mellores prácticas da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía, e é excelente pola súa atención ao detalle. Happiness Broche, Colgante satisfai espléndidamente as necesidades, toca os desexos, encanta os sentimentos e atrae a curiosidade.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The artist integrates the traditional cloisonne craft into the jewelry design, making the design more modern while retaining the traditional Oriental characteristics, and striving to make efforts for the inheritance and development of the traditional cloisonne craft.
Dimensions & Packaging: Brooch Size: Height 56cm
Material: Cloisonne, Gold, Silver, Diamonds, Emeralds
Process: filigree cloisonne, metal casting, metal wire drawing, gem setting, color separation gold plating
Tags: Cloisonne jewellery, happiness, Chinoiserie jewellery, Enamel Jewelry, Cloisonne Brooch , Pendant
Production Technology: The magpie cloisonne process used by this work is very complicated, need after cutting, carving, tinsel, silver inlay, coated with glaze, high temperature, grinding, etc more than ten working procedure, to do work in 800 - degree firing 20-30 times, can obtain the beautiful color, and these should be done purely manual. Due to the uncertainty of handwork, the success rate of a perfect cloisonne is not high, which is all the more precious in today's speed seeking industrial age.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge of this design is to break through the tradition and combine the cloisonne craftsmanship originally applied to the utensils with gold and gemstones to make the design a unique piece of jewelry.
Research: Because the craftsmanship of Cloisonne uses copper as the inner bottom tire, in order to make the blue and green more vivid, it can experiment with silver tires. So the artist tried to adjust during the production process and successfully got more beautiful colors.
Inspiration: As a bird that symbolizes auspiciousness, it is said that seeing a magpie means something good will happen. Bamboo is a very important plant in oriental culture, symbolizing noble and great character. The overall design is very oriental. The artist used cloisonne to create the magpie, showing the rich colors and textures that make the bird look more vivid. The bamboo behind it is gold and silver colour, inlaid with diamonds and emeralds, making the whole design more gorgeous.
Project Duration: The project will be designed and produced in Beijing in 2021, and it will take 2 months in total.
Operation Flow: This piece can be used as a brooch and necklace in different occasions
Team Members: Photographer：Danny Duan