Eastern Blocks Fungsi Utama: Perhiasan Beton by Gerda Liudvinaviciute

Eastern Blocks Fungsi Utama: Perhiasan Beton by Gerda Liudvinaviciute is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Perak in Perhiasan Competition Category.

PerakPerhiasan· 2021

Eastern Blocks Fungsi Utama: Perhiasan Beton

by Gerda Liudvinaviciute

Client: Celsius 273

A' Design Award Perak Winner in Perhiasan Category

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The Design

About Eastern Blocks Fungsi Utama: Perhiasan Beton

Eastern Blocks nyaéta koléksi perhiasan beton anu diilhaman ku wangunan susun panél di Éropa Wétan. Koléksi ieu ngawengku kalung sareng anting anu nuturkeun wangun gedong apartemén prafabrikasi. Beton dipaké lantaran bahanana hampang, teu ngajadikeun alérgi, sareng teu babari peupeus. Unggal potongan dimimitian salaku gambar tilu-diménsi, dituturkeun ku prototipe sareng cetakan silikon pikeun ngacor. Bagian beton anu geus réngsé teras disambungkeun jeung pérak sareng kulit. Koléksi ieu ngajak urang ningali deui warisan arsitéktur Éropa Wétan kalayan pandangan anu anyar.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Eastern Blocks Fungsi Utama: Perhiasan Beton mangrupa juara A' Design Award Perak, pangakuan anu luar biasa bergengsi anu dipasihkeun ka desain kelas luhur, endah jeung matak kagum. Para juara Perak téh karya anu pohara cemerlang jeung pohara kréatif anu ngagambarkeun kaahlian, bakat jeung kapinteran para désainerna. Eastern Blocks Fungsi Utama: Perhiasan Beton diharepkeun jadi karya anu éndah, karya andalan anu pohara profésional jeung pohara inovatif. Desain juara A' Design Award Perak ieu mangrupa panemuan anu pohara kasohor jeung dikagumi anu mangpaat sarta ngamajukeun watesan seni, élmu, desain jeung téknologi. Eastern Blocks Fungsi Utama: Perhiasan Beton mangrupa kréasi anu pohara diirikeun anu ngahudang kahayang, ngabawa rasa positip, jeung ngahudangkeun rasa heran jeung kagum.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This design is wearable architecture. Concrete material and brutalist design with the story behind makes these accessories more than wearable - it's an educational, fashionable manifesto about architectural heritage and society.
Dimensions & Packaging: Necklaces approx.17.5 cm x 15.5 cm and other 18x11 thickness 0.5- 1 cm. Earrings 4x2 cm concrete detail and optional 5-9 cm silver wire long. Other earrings 14.5x2 cm.
Tags: concrete jewelry, architectural jewelry, eastern european, blockhouses, brutalist jewelry, soviet architecture, brutalist architecture, jewelry artist, jewelry designer,
Production Technology: I chose concrete material - light, non-allergenic, and less fragile to create an ode of a brutalist dystopia. First of all, I designed 3d drawings, made prototypes, and then, started to create molds for concrete details with silicon. When the concrete pieces were finished, I started metalworking with silver and leather materials.
Design Challenge: To find a form, which would be understandable, that it's blockhouse jewelry, but minimalist, aesthetic and impressive.
Research: I made monitoring of the architecture and society attitude of Eastern European houses. My objective was to find a way, how to talk about post-Soviet society and Eastern European architecture heritage in fashion accessories. The main point is to start a discussion with locals' minds about this unique architecture and spread this wearable message. In this collection, I question people’s attitudes towards Soviet heritage and invite you to take a fresh look at Soviet architecture and society's illusions.
Inspiration: The collection was inspired by Eastern European panel blockhouses as an iconic modern community symbol. Shapes of panel buildings and us - people, who live in individuality fiction, because the truth is that only a few centimeters between the walls separate us and our individuality is just fiction in this world.
Project Duration: This project started as an idea 2018 but I finished this collection 2020.
Operation Flow: Wearable jewelry made of concrete. Light, strong, and non - allergic material make jewelry more comfortable and wearable. This technology and design give a chance to wear architecture in real form and material as a piece of jewelry.
Team Members: Designer and artist Gerda Liudvinaviciute (artist name CELSIUS 273).
Image Credits: Photographer: Ieva Rudzionyte Model: Paulina Judzinskyte, Make up and hair: Indrija Kneize
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Model: Gabija Rostovskyte