Lacey Kūpeʻe Lima Lima by Diana Sokolic is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2015 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Lako Lole a me Lako Huakaʻi Competition Category.

KeleaweLako Lole· 2015

Lacey Kūpeʻe Lima Lima

by Diana Sokolic

Client: Diana Sokolic

A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in Lako Lole Category

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The Design

About Lacey Kūpeʻe Lima Lima

Loaʻa iā mākou nā huki piha i ka lace i hana ʻia e ko mākou mau makuahine a me nā kupuna wahine. Ua hoʻohana ʻia kēlā mau doyley ma ke ʻano he mea hoʻonani ma nā papaʻaina kope, nā pahu TV, a i ʻole nā noho lima. I kēia mau lā, loaʻa iā lākou ka waiwai noʻonoʻo, akā ʻaʻohe hoʻohana. Ua hana ʻo Diana Sokolic i nā kūpeʻe lima lima me ka lace ma waena o nā papa ʻelua o ka Plexiglas māmā. Ua loaʻa hou nā ʻāpana nani i hana ʻia me ke aloha a me ke ahonui i ko lākou kumu e hoʻopili ai i ko mākou hala me ko mākou manawa.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Lacey Kūpeʻe Lima Lima i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Lacey Kūpeʻe Lima Lima he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā Lacey Kūpeʻe Lima Lima i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Our great grandmothers and grandmothers were brought up to play piano, read poetry and make lace. In the 60ies, their daughters kept those lace doyleys under the glass on coffee tables and commodes. Now we have drawers full of lace and needlework. It has no use in modernly furnished flats, it hass just an emotional value.
I have made cuff bracelets with lace between two plates of transparent Plexiglas.
In this way the lace has kept its transparency, gained new use, at the same time recognizing the women who made it and those who kept it for us.
Dimensions & Packaging: 130 x 75 x 50 mm
Tags: lace,cuff bracelet, accessorie, fashion
Production Technology: Lace and PMMA
I did not want to put delicate lace in a metal frame or any other heavy material. So I decided to put it between two pieces of transparent Plexiglas.
Design Challenge: Since PMMA has to be heated in order to be bent, the most challenging part was how to heat it without burning the delicate threads of needlework and then how to connect the lace and the Plexiglas without the glue.
Research: This project was technically the most diffucult one for me. I was affraid that I will burn the lace while experimenting with different temperatures in order to bent the PMMA, since I could not experiment with something else except the lace itself.
PMMA plates have to be really hot in order to stick to one another, while the lace is between the layers.
I had to find lace doyleys which are not to big because cuffs have to be weareable.
Inspiration: From time to time I open the drawer with lace and needlework kept between sheets of thin white paper. I look at them with love and patience, expecting to hear them talking to me. I know that those pieces want to be used again, that they want to show their beauty. And one day it just happened! They talked to me!
Project Duration: I have made these bracelets in my hometown Zagreb, Croatia
and the process lasted for several month.
This project has not been shown jet.
Operation Flow: Cuffs are open at the back so one size fits all
Team Members: Diana Sokolic
Image Credits: Diana Sokolic, 2014.