Lacey Manschettenarmband by Diana Sokolic

Lacey Manschettenarmband by Diana Sokolic is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2015 A' Design Award an Bronze in Moud a Reesaccessoiren Design Competition Category.

BronzeAccessoire· 2015

Lacey Manschettenarmband

by Diana Sokolic

Client: Diana Sokolic

A' Design Award an Bronze Winner in Accessoire Category

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The Design

About Lacey Manschettenarmband

Mir hunn all Tirangen voller Spëtzekleeder vun eise Mammen a Groussmamm. Dës Doyleys goufen als Dekoratioun op Kaffisdëscher, Fernsehapparaten oder Fotellen benotzt. Hautdesdaags hunn se emotional Wäert, awer kee Gebrauch. Diana Sokolic huet Manschette Braceleten mat Spëtz tëscht zwee Placke vun transparent Plexiglas gemaach. Schéin Stécker mat Léift a Gedold gemaach hunn hiren Zweck erëmgewielt eis Vergaangenheet mat eiser heiteger ze verbannen.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award an Bronze

Lacey Manschettenarmband ass e Gewënner vum A' Design Award an Bronze, enger héich prestigiéiser Unerkennung, déi un erausragend Designe vergi gëtt, déi sech duerch Kreativitéit, Erfindungsgab a Schlauheet ausgezeechnen. Bronze-Gewënner si voll Fäegkeet a opfälleg kreativ Wierker, déi déi grouss Erfahrung, d'Fantasie an d'Ressourceréichtum vun hire Designer bestätegen. Et gëtt erwaart, datt Lacey Manschettenarmband e héich geschätzt, bewonnert a beléifte Géigestand ass, bemierkenswäert professionell an innovativ. Dëst mam Bronze ausgezeechent Design integréiert déi beschte Praktike vun der Konscht, der Wëssenschaft, vum Design an der Technologie an zeechent sech duerch Opmierksamkeet fir Detailer aus. Lacey Manschettenarmband erfëllt Bedierfnesser exzellent, beréiert Wënsch, bezauberet Gefiller an erweckt Neigierecht.

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.