Marilyn 手镯 by Anna-Reetta Vaananen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 珠宝设计 Competition Category.

铜珠宝· 2024

Marilyn 手镯

by Anna-Reetta Vaananen

Client: Anna's Darling Ky

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 珠宝 Category

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The Design

About Marilyn 手镯

玛丽莲是一款专为正式与半正式场合设计的手镯。流动的造型演绎出海边的卷发与轻风。玛丽莲采用再生的非镀层14K金(亦称585金)制成,产自芬兰松卡耶尔维。作品运用失蜡铸造与传统金匠工艺打造,表面经过抛光处理。手镯贴合手腕的形状与骨骼结构,佩戴时稳固而舒适。饰品可根据手型进行塑形调整。设计目标是打造一件体量大而醒目、佩戴起来却依然轻盈的作品。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Marilyn 手镯是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Marilyn 手镯将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Marilyn 手镯出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Marilyn bracelet is flowy and showy. It expresses curls and wind by the beach. This polished and golden jewelry is made from recycled non-plated 14 carat gold at Sonkajarvi, Finland. The bracelet is well fitted and comfortable to wear. The jewelry set suites events and fine occasions.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 68 mm Hight 68 mm Depth 35 mm
Tags: mairlyn, jewelry, marilyn monroe, gold jewelry, finnish, design, bracelet, surface
Production Technology: The Marilyn Bracelet is made from recycled 585 gold. It's made by lost was casting and traditional goldsmiths techniques. It has polished surface. The original 3d model was made from paper and silver.
Design Challenge: The challenge of this design project was to create light and luxurious feeling into a celebrity inspired jewelry. It was to make the jewelry user feel the perfection and child like joy in design. It was also important to express the movement and bring Marilyn's personality in to the jewelry.
Research: In Marilyn jewelry project the main fields of study were in luxury feeling flowy design that expresses the actress Marilyn Monroes character and makes the jewelry user to feel itself confident and beautiful when appearing in events for dress code Formal or Semi-formal. It was also important to reach the feeling of steady and stable weightless wearability of big and showy jewelry. This was achieved with good balance experiments and several fittings with different body types.
Inspiration: Marilyn makes us think of how we treat people who live by publicity and being a star. Where is the line between personal life and show business or politics. Marilyns' life is well stored in photographs. Through them it s possible to see her as a human being who faces changes and winds of life. All though her hair might be done perfect she is still the same wild, loving and caring person as she was in the beginning of her career. She deserves to be admired as herself.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2020 and finished in February 2024 in Sonkajarvi, Finland.
Operation Flow: The jewelry set is made to follow the users movements. It is made to be noticeable by the audience but not the user itself. The bracelet follows the shape of a wrist and bone structure to feel stable and fit. It can be shaped to fit ones hand.
Patents: All RIghts Anna's Darling Ky, Sonkajärvi Finland
Image Credits: Image #1 : Photographer Elina Manninen, Marilyn jewelry set, 2023
Image #2: Photographer Anna-Reetta Vaananen, Marilyn bracelet, 2024
Image #3: Photographer Anna-Reetta Vaananen, Marilyn bracelet, 2024
Image #4: Photographer Anna-Reetta Vaananen, Marilyn bracelet, 2024
Image #5: Photographer Anna-Reetta Vaananen, Marilyn bracelet, 2024