Facetious Facets
Back from the last Inhorgenta fair in Munich, trends among some noticed there.
Both in the always refreshing « Halle C2 », where the young and beautiful and of course talented designers show their work, as well as on some booths in the sometimes less hyped but more established sections, where the already known and rich and of course older ones welcome their clientèle.
Trend #1 : textures
Interesting to see that even the most minimalist manufacturers known to have fought against « baroque » (« ornament is a crime », as everyone should, after Adolph Loos, know), start to introduce something like traces, scratches and aleatory rhythmic patterns on the once utterly virginal surfaces of their collections.
Wedding rings and bands to be blessed and exchanged this coming spring are bound to be different : Mother Nature tenderly leans down to its prodigal sons.
Trend #2 : facets
An ideal symbol for preciousness, the faceted stone does no longer have to be precious.
That we already knew.
But it does not even need to be a stone.
What is relevant is the faceting.
The less precious the material, the stronger the contrast and the impact.
So there were lots of faceted « volumes » displayed, in all sorts of shapes and materials.
Some designers carried out the experiment even further, setting small diamonds on one facet, introducing some kind of exciting conceptual perspective : the narcissistic pavé.
Thinking more deeply about it, this « facetting » is also part of CAD processes, when complex volumes are to be visualized.
Computer images of such kind, also called « low resolution » images, are very close to what transforms a mineral into something appealing.
Definitely a source of inspiration that goes far beyond the traditional coloured center stone.
Christophe Burger
Colmar, 17. March, 2011
Check out Christophe's earlier writing here. |  « LoRes » shoes / United Nude™
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