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Gold and jewellery between design and ornament

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For a long time the design world has pretended not to see jewels, says Silvana Annichiarico, curator of the Triennale permanent collection.  It has relegated them to the limbo of the ornament, the infamy of the unique piece, the gratuitousness of decoration.    In the effort to expunge the cliché of this presumed antinomy between jewellery and design, an exhibition at the Palazzo della Triennale in Milan ‘Il design della gioia’, set out to reveal the rare world of the jewellery created by professionals used to dealing with the broadest field of architectural planning and design, and outlines possible new paths of expressing beauty.

Palazzo della Triennale (www.triennale.it), V.le Alemagna 6, Milano – NB also add this info to’ where to buy’ page

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Leading Italian architect and designer, Mario Bellini (born in Milan in 1935) graduated in 1959 from the Architecture School in Milan, where he still lives and works today. Since the 1980’s Bellini has worked chiefly as an architect in Europe, Japan, the USA and the Arab Emirates.
For Bellini “My jewels are catalysts of the beauty of the body. They bring out mobility and structure. I have rethought the woman’s body in a new way, with more curiosity”.

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Michele de Lucchi (born in Ferrara in 1951) studied at the International Art University of Florence, where he obtained his degree in Architecture and became the assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture. He left his teaching career in 1978 to enter into the field of design; since the 1980’s he has lived and worked in Milan. His pieces of jewellery are dynamic stratifications of geometry, kinetic sculptures which invite a confrontation with unexpected correspondences or effective divergences.

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Paolo Portoghesi (born in Rome in 1931) has always been "searching for the lost architecture". Each of his buildings unites completely contrasting elements in style, whether it’s Romanticism and Classicism, Renaissance and Baroque, or Occident and Orient, culminating architecturally in a new interpretation of the modern style. “My jewels are micro-architecture, archetypes of rather solemn ancient architecture remarks Portoghesi, while reducing the scale of his façade in his pieces of jewellery.

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Ettore Sottsass (born in Innsbruck in 1917), one of the leading members of the Memphis Group founded in 1981, began his career by studying architecture at the famous Turin Polytechnic. After the war he worked for a group of architects before setting up his own Milan based office 1947, which he called the Studio.   Sottsass wonderful jewels are, as he himself has said, “more or less a reproduction of what I think can be done in architecture, formal exercise in architectural composition”.

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