Designers

 

 

 

 

AUrora

Two Portuguese designers committed to present us the best of traditional jewellery craftsmanship engaging in Delft sand and cuttlefish castings. With a touch of irony and sensuality their jewellery is as arousing as critic face to the trickeries of life!

Both went to achieve their BAs and MAs at Ar.Co Center for Visual Art in Lisbon having being represented in several exhibitions at Gallery Tereza Seabra and the upcoming Brazilian design fair Paralela in São Paulo.

 

Artur Félix da Cruz

Rooted in London where is achieving his Architecture Master Degree Félix da Cruz has been involved in several design projects as he has a deep knowledge of history of furniture with a particular passion for Scandinavian chairs from the 50’s.

An observer with a beautifying eye he is keen in extracting the best from poor materials and making interesting compositions for commercial spaces and exhibitions. Also with a firm hand he very much enjoys crafting many of the elements used in his projects.

 

Alexandra Llewellyn

Alexandra was first introduced to backgammon in the alleys of Cairo while strolling with her Egyptian step-grandfather as a child. Over time, as her travels broadened, her interest in the game evolved. Alexandra’s backgammon designs were launched in December 2010 - a truly unique vision of the oldest recorded board game in the world. After countless games of backgammon with people from all over the world, Alexandra was fascinated by the idea that board games operate as an independent vocabulary requiring neither common language nor culture.

Alexandra's designs are now sent all over the world to a growing list of clients including Sir Richard Branson, Elle Macpherson, Jacquetta Wheeler, American Vogue, January Jones and Annoushka Dukas.

 

Black Olive and Pink Pepper Rice

Art and object, myth and magic

Black Olive and Pink Pepper Rice are a newly established team of two creative, an architect and a visual artist always interested in fashion and born within that industry.

Their beautiful collection of garments are timeless and vibrant, multicultural and beyond trend.

 

Carol Wiseman

Glasgow born Jewellery designer, Carol Wiseman, trained at Glasgow school of art in Silversmithing &Jewellery, before going on to achieve MA in Fashion (specialising in jewellery for fashion) at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Her love of creating pieces that cross boundaries between jewellery, fashion and accessories, remains unrestricted in the application to the body. 

Alongside some signature pieces from previous collections, she also showcases a new collection of fine jewellery inspired by modern architecture with a mathematical element, which can be worn in various ways. All designed and handcrafted, from her studio in East London.

 

Catarina Silva

Franco-Lusitanian jeweler Catarina Silva has been developing a very interesting artistic and design works. Avid for attaining the best results with her master technics she crossed jewellery with painting and elaborated mix media assemblies.

 

Hugo Madureira

With its newly brand HMS Jewellery, Hugo Madureira's new trade mark is a kick-starter for new collaborations in London.

Working in jewellery over a decade HMS is mostly known by his artistic joint ventures and designs for fashion labels.

 

Joana Astolfi

Joana Astolfi was born in Lisbon in 1975. She collects second-hand vintage objects and writes letters in her typewriter. She studied Architecture at the University of Wales, graduating in 1998 with a distinction. She moves to London in 1999, where she works as a free-lancer remodelling houses and interiors.

During 2007, Joana sets up PuppenHaus a Contemporary Art Association that focuses on the curation, organisation and design of contemporary art exhibitions. In 2009, PuppenHaus challenges thirty international contemporary artists to respond to the theme The Beauty of the Mistake – the exhibition is held at LX Factory in Lisbon. Joana is nominated as Portugal’s  International Cultural Leader by the British Council in 2009, representing Portugal in various European conferences. She hosts a conference at Lisbon’s Design Museum (MUDE) based on the same theme as the exhibition, The Beauty of the Mistake.

In 2009 Joana sets up Studio Astolfi in the heart of Lisbon. Studio Astolfi works spaces and objects. It focuses on architecture, interior design, exhibition design, and custom-made furniture and objects. Currently, Joana focuses most of her time on her art, resuscitating objects and customizing them with a conceptual twist. She is now preparing her next show to be held in Rio de Janeiro in 2012.

 

Le Gallinelle

From the eternal city most beautiful neighborhoods emerged in the 80's Le Gallinelle a fashion label founded by Wilma Silvestri and today run as a family company.

With a passion for patterns making, tailoring and colours they conceive an elegant and very Italian trendy style for women.

 

Leonor Guedes

Free-spirit and vivacious as result to the social and personal turmoil caused by the fall of the Portuguese dictatorship, Leonor Guedes is a romantic, a believer and an achiever.

Her work almost all times geometric contains several layers of information and several of technical knowledge. She is constantly acquiring new skills either in craftsmanship as Urushi Lacquer and 3D design applied to jewellery.

 

Lidija Kolovrat

Bosnian Fashion Designer and Artist based in Lisbon, Portugal.

Since the 80's Kolovrat has been involved in several products launching in companies such as Camper and developing her own collections, leather accessories line and art projects.

 

Nelly Van Oost and East West Jewellery

This recent jewellery label is born out of the growth of its creator and firm believes that jewellery is for people. With a feminine flair Van Oost enjoys combining lines with space, tracing her shapes in metal as if from the tip of an airborne pencil.

A traveller as expected from a contemporary designer, she studied in several countries beginning her apprenticeship in Belgium in a technical school then lead to Barcelona and finishing her studies in Idar-Oberstein

East West Jewellery takes its name from these decisive movements.

 

OO

Launched a few years ago by the Burmese designer Ei Ei Kyaw, OO is a Hey Hey for a kind of minimal and rational Asian aesthetic.

Consistent in her fashion design for several years, Ei Ei was one of the founders of White Tent, a label that became very successful and is still recognized by some of her original patterns and accessories design and reinterpretations of vernacular items of daily use.

She studied in London at the Royal College of Art and later at the itinerant Art School Maus Maus.

Kyaw is a nomad that never remains much time in the same place, yet we know is again in Myanmar where she is making a new research for the use of sustainable local raw materials

 

Paula Paour

Part of Plum Atelier, a collective of jewellers that have been working in Lisbon for the past 2 decades, Paula Paour is a historian and a teacher that is keen to bring to the jewellery world her witty and beautiful creations. She was born in the 60’s in a British-Lusitanian Family hence her entrepreneurial activities with artists and designs tangential to her achievements in bespoke studio jewellery.

 

Rahel Pfrommer

Promising and romantic this Jeweller is part of a spectrum of German young designers.

Pfrommer is mainly interested in fashion jewellery and was recently in London collaborating with the Designer Scott Wilson. She will be back soon to achieve her MA in textile design in RCA.

 

Tanel Veenre

Veenre is one of the most enigmatic jewellers working at the present.

He was born in Tallinn in 1977 and he is seen as very experimental young artist within the field of contemporary jewellery. Nevertheless he is widely requested for exhibitions around the world as well as an invited teacher and he is now the head of the Jewellery Course at Arts Academy of Tallinn after Kadri Mälk who was his mentor.

His work is naturalistic and poetic, but ultimately delivers astonishment to the wearer. His creations are all about people and mostly for women; they portray traits and take many of its inspiration from literature.

Tanel Veenre is a complete artist with many techniques and skills in different materials always conveyed in the jewellery, fashion work and design line he currently presents.

 

Teresa Milheiro

Lisbon born in 1969 Jewellery Artist, Teresa expresses the essential features of her surroundings.

Her jewels are odd conclusions encapsulated in sharp crafted metals, uses of object trouvé and animal tissue such as bones and teeth. It is remarkable her passion towards ivory, dentin or whalebone, woods and silks of exotic shapes. In many ways Teresa Milheiro is from Lisbon, the Pearl of the Atlantic and an ancient Port of Plenty, having there founded her gallery for the representation of many other international jewelers.