Dancing Ballerina 动感鸡尾酒戒指 by Margarita Prykhodko

Dancing Ballerina 动感鸡尾酒戒指 by Margarita Prykhodko is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 银奖 in 珠宝设计 Competition Category.

银珠宝· 2021

Dancing Ballerina 动感鸡尾酒戒指

by Margarita Prykhodko

Client: Margarita Prykhodko

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 珠宝 Category

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The Design

About Dancing Ballerina 动感鸡尾酒戒指

《舞动的芭蕾舞者》是一款动感鸡尾酒戒指，灵感源自汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生笔下锡兵与纸芭蕾舞者的童话故事。戒指内部的旋转机构使芭蕾舞者造型随手部的轻微动作而转动。该造型以18K白金与黄金打造，镶嵌223颗圆形与梨形切割白钻，总重4.03克拉。戒指直径5厘米，高5厘米，重37.20克。双面翻转的钱币式底座使戒指在未佩戴时可以作为一件小型雕塑独立摆放。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Dancing Ballerina 动感鸡尾酒戒指是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Dancing Ballerina 动感鸡尾酒戒指将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Dancing Ballerina 动感鸡尾酒戒指是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: It is much better to see a ballerina whirling in dance than to guess about it in a static piece. A unique mechanism has been developed specifically for this ring which allows the Ballerina ring to rotate from the slightest movement of the hand.
Dimensions & Packaging: Ballerina ring is made with 18k white & yellow gold, alongside 4.03 carats of round-cut & pear-shaped white diamonds. Despite the minuscule mechanisms in the design, the ring weighs only 37.20 g Object dimensions: Diameter 5cm & High 5cm.
Tags: Sybarite, SybariteJewellery, Ring, Masterpiece, Kinetic, Ballerina,
Production Technology: The model developed itself in the 3D Matrix program for the jewellery industry based on the Rhinoceros program. To achieve result before production starts, we created a video of the model. After figurine was grown by prototyping on a 3D printer from wax, then cast in two colours of gold. They were meticulously processed by hand (using polishing jewellery threads, which were used to cut each hole under the stone, for the perfect shine of the rocks). After that, 223 precious stones were fixed into the base product and only then the parts were connected into a single figure.
Design Challenge: The most challenging part is to combine the design with the technical and mechanical part, having integrated the mechanism there and making the ring light, ergonomic and at the same time elegant and wearable. The rotary mechanism is intricate and small, so when it was installed it was crucially important that not a single dust particle makes its way into the mechanism, for its flawless function.
Research: Following a career as an architect and engineer.
My ambition was to craft pieces that were not just beautiful to look at but were also works of art in their own right. It made sense to join together the worlds of design, engineering and art, to create the jewellery that I wanted going further to find ways of introducing kinetic effects, hidden secrets and surprising features that made each piece a joy to own.
Inspiration: For generations, children have fallen in love with Hans Christian Andersen tale of the Tin Soldier. In the tale, the titular character is a cast with one leg missing as the maker ran out of metal. He meets a beautiful, delicate paper ballerina who wears a gilt brooch on her sash, and the two form a bond that has inspired romance for generations.
In my piece, Ballerina I recreated this legend of doomed romance in exquisite detail.The ring has a unique kinetic mechanism that shows the movement of the ballerina.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2017 in London and finished in November 2019 in London. The overall process of production, improvements and quality check took about two years. The ring was privately exhibited at The Ritz London.
Operation Flow: The ring has a unique rotary kinetic mechanism that shows the movement of the ballerina - however that is not all. The ring itself The The ring stands on a double-flip coin base, allowing it to look like a small sculpture, in addition to the piece is function as a beautiful wearable object.
Patents: Trademark number UK00003338242 (2018) Trademark Sybarite, Sybarite Jewellery, Sybarite Jewelry.
Image Credits: Margarita Prykhodko