Lacey Mansjettarmbånd by Diana Sokolic is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2015 A' Design Award i Bronse in Mote- og Reisetilbehørsdesign Competition Category.

BronseTilbehør· 2015

Lacey Mansjettarmbånd

by Diana Sokolic

Client: Diana Sokolic

A' Design Award i Bronse Winner in Tilbehør Category

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The Design

About Lacey Mansjettarmbånd

Vi har alle skuffer fulle av blonder laget av våre mødre og bestemødre. Disse doyleyene ble brukt som dekorasjon på salongbord, tv-apparater eller lenestoler. I dag har de følelsesmessig verdi, men ingen nytte. Diana Sokolic laget mansjettarmbånd med blonder mellom to plater av gjennomsiktig pleksiglass. Vakre stykker laget med kjærlighet og tålmodighet har gjenvunnet formålet med å forbinde vår fortid med vår nåtid.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Bronse

Lacey Mansjettarmbånd er vinner av A' Design Award i Bronse, en høyt prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles enestående design som utmerker seg ved kreativitet, oppfinnsomhet og skarpsindighet. Bronsevinnere er rikt dyktige og påfallende kreative gjenstander som bekrefter designernes store erfaring, fantasi og ressurssterkhet. Lacey Mansjettarmbånd forventes å være en høyt ansett, beundret og verdsatt gjenstand som er bemerkelsesverdig profesjonell og nyskapende. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Bronse, rommer beste praksis innen kunst, vitenskap, design og teknologi og utmerker seg ved sin omtanke for detaljer. Lacey Mansjettarmbånd tilfredsstiller behov på en strålende måte, berører ønsker, sjarmerer følelser og vekker nysgjerrighet.

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.