Lacey Erma Armbönd by Diana Sokolic is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2015 A' Design Award í bronsi in Hönnun tísku- og ferðaaukahluta Competition Category.

BronsFylgihlutir· 2015

Lacey Erma Armbönd

by Diana Sokolic

Client: Diana Sokolic

A' Design Award í bronsi Winner in Fylgihlutir Category

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The Design

About Lacey Erma Armbönd

Við erum öll með fullar skúffur af blúndu sem mæður okkar og ömmur hafa búið til. Þær voru notaðar sem skraut á kaffiborðum, sjónvarpstækjum eða hægindastólum. Nú á dögum hafa þeir tilfinningalegt gildi, en ekkert gagn. Diana Sokolic bjó til armbönd með blúndu á milli tveggja plötur af gagnsæjum plexígleri. Fallegir verk gerðir af ást og þolinmæði hafa endurheimt tilgang sinn og tengja fortíð okkar við nútíð okkar.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award í bronsi

Lacey Erma Armbönd vann A' Design Award í bronsi, mjög virta viðurkenningu sem veitt er framúrskarandi hönnunarverkum sem einkennast af sköpunargáfu, hugvitssemi og skarpskyggni. Sigurvegarar í bronsi eru ríkulega leiknir og áberandi skapandi gripir sem staðfesta víðtæka reynslu, ímyndunarafl og útsjónarsemi hönnuða sinna. Þess er vænst að Lacey Erma Armbönd sé mjög metinn, dáður og elskaður hlutur sem er einstaklega fagmannlegur og nýstárlegur. Þetta hönnunarverk sem vann A' Design Award í bronsi felur í sér bestu starfsvenjur í list, vísindum, hönnun og tækni og er framúrskarandi fyrir athygli sína á smáatriðum. Lacey Erma Armbönd fullnægir þörfum á dásamlegan hátt, snertir langanir, heillar tilfinningar og vekur forvitni.

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.