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Lotus Date Recorder Кулон by Mana Khaloo

Lotus Date Recorder Кулон by Mana Khaloo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Железная премия A' Design Award in Дизайн ювелирных изделий Competition Category.


ЖелезнаяЮвелирные изделия· 2023

Lotus Date Recorder Кулон

by Mana Khaloo

Client: Anabell Jewelry

Железная премия A' Design Award Winner in Ювелирные изделия Category

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The Design

About Lotus Date Recorder Кулон

«Lotus Date Recorder» — кулон, сохраняющий память об особой дате. В его композиции — 31 маленький лепесток, обозначающий дни, и 12 элементов огранки «маркиз», обозначающих месяцы. Золотая отметка на одном лепестке и одном «маркизе» указывает выбранную дату, которая читается по часовой стрелке. Кулон покрыт розовым золотом и имеет размеры 50 × 50 × 2,5 миллиметра. Форма вдохновлена парой серёг эпохи империи Ахеменидов, созданных по мотивам цветка лотоса, вырезанного на стенах Персеполя. Лотос был символом бессмертия и олицетворял солнце и двенадцать месяцев года.

The Recognition

About the Железная премия A' Design Award

Lotus Date Recorder Кулон — лауреат Железной премии A' Design Award, престижного признания, присуждаемого хорошим проектам, которые отвечают профессиональным и промышленным требованиям, ожидаемым от хорошо продуманных творений. Обладатели Железной премии демонстрируют большое мастерство, высокую специализацию, экспертное понимание и творческие способности их авторов. Ожидается, что Lotus Date Recorder Кулон станет высокоценимым, вызывающим восхищение и дорогим сердцу творением, практичным и инновационным. Этот проект, получивший Железную премию A' Design Award, интегрирует лучшие отраслевые практики и обладает компетентными техническими характеристиками, сочетающимися с ноу-хау и талантом. Благодаря основательности Lotus Date Recorder Кулон заслуживает уважения и создан для того, чтобы улучшать качество жизни, помогая сделать мир лучше.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The Lotus collection is rare since it records special dates. All the collection's necklaces are similar in their basic form, but they are unique, as they each show a specific date. There are 31 small petals as the days, and 12 marquises to indicate the months. You will be gifted by your own date keeper. A gold marking on the picked petal and marquise corresponds to show the desired date. The date is read clockwise. The recorded date on the pendant shown as the main image is Oct 7th (My Birthday).
Dimensions & Packaging
This gold pendant is rose gold plated in dimension of : length 50 mm x Width 50 mm x Height 2.5mm. The gold piece of jewelry weighs 20 grams, including 30 petal-shaped gems and 11 emerald marquise gems in the size of 8 mm.
Tags
jewelry, date recorder, calendar, pendant, design, lotus, achaemenid, culture, interaction
Production Technology
Pencil sketches,Adobe Illustrator,3D Modeling
Design Challenge
Rearranging the petals in a way to correspond to the number of days and months while keeping the original form of the Achaemenid lotus earrings was challenging , deciding on what colors could be felt more as real lotus flower while representing the Iranian nobility was another challenge.
Research
Spending a long time to find the conceptual aspect and symbolic meaning of the twelve-petaled rosette, it was decided to rearrange the petals in Achaemenid earrings the way that represent the 31 days of a month, and the 12 months of a year in order to be able to record the date of a special event.
Inspiration
The matchless pendant is inspired by the set of earrings from the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, that is now being exhibited in the Louver museum. The shape of these earrings is taken from the twelve-petaled rosette, based on the lotus flower that is engraved on almost all walls in Persepolis. This flower was the symbol of immortality and perpetual beneficence, and also embodies the sun and the twelve months of the year. That had been held by an emperor, as a sign of peace and union and a symbol of Anahita, the goddess of water and wisdom in the ancient Persian empire.
Project Duration
The project started in March 2019 in Shiraz/Iran. The first production of the collection in silver was exhibited in Mehregan Exhibition, Tehran/Iran in Oct 2019.
Operation Flow
I personally believe an intelligent design is about creating an art that stays in mind. Having a magnificent symbolic background, the lotus pendant tells a meaningful story of time.
Image Credits
Image #1: Mana Khaloo, Lotus date recorder , 2022
Image #2: Mana Khaloo, Lotus date recorder , 2022
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