Lacey Ko Nga Poroporo Ringaringa by Diana Sokolic

Lacey Ko Nga Poroporo Ringaringa by Diana Sokolic is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2015 A' Design Award Parahi in Hoahoa Āparetanga Kākahu me te Haerenga Competition Category.

ParahiĀparetanga· 2015

Lacey Ko Nga Poroporo Ringaringa

by Diana Sokolic

Client: Diana Sokolic

A' Design Award Parahi Winner in Āparetanga Category

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The Design

About Lacey Ko Nga Poroporo Ringaringa

Kei a tatou katoa nga kaiutuutu ki tonu i nga reihi i mahia e o tatou whaea me nga kuia. I whakamahia aua riipene hei whakapaipai i runga i nga tepu kawhe, i nga pouaka whakaata, i nga tuuru ringa ranei. I enei wa, he uara aronganui, engari kaore he painga. I hangaia e Diana Sokolic nga poroporo aporo me te reihi i waenga i nga papa e rua o te Plexiglas maramara. Ko nga waahanga ataahua i mahia ma te aroha me te manawanui kua hoki mai ano te kaupapa ki te hono i o tatou waa o mua me o tatou waa.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Parahi

Ko Lacey Ko Nga Poroporo Ringaringa te toa o te A' Design Award Parahi, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa kōeke e tohua ana mā te auaha, te mahi mōhio me te whakaaro hōhonu. Ko ngā toa Parahi he mahi pukenga e rite ana, he auaha mīharo, e whakatūturu ana i te wheako nui, te whakaaro me te mōhio-ā-ringa o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Lacey Ko Nga Poroporo Ringaringa he taonga whakanuia, whakamīharotia, aroha nui, he ngaio, he auaha hoki. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Parahi e whakauru ana i ngā tikanga pai rawa i te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau, ā, he tino mīharo ki ngā taipitopito. Ka whakatutuki a Lacey Ko Nga Poroporo Ringaringa i ngā hiahia, ka pā ki ngā hiahia, ka whakaoho i ngā kare-ā-roto, ā, ka kume i te pākiki.

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.