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architectonic jewelry design
The phrase architectonic, in addition to referring to architecture, means the creation of a work of art based on structure and composition. From this perspective, the purpose of architectonic design is not just resize architectural buildings to smaller dimensions than the actual size. One of the common approaches in jewelry design is to draw a building or architectural form smaller than the actual dimensions. In this approach, we usually face the same architectural artworks and the interference is minimal. It is like turning the Eiffel Tower into a jewel with its own special form. But in architectural terms, the goal is not imitation and adaptation, but we are dealing with an author designer who borrows structure and composition from architecture and makes it his own. But in architectonic terms, the goal is not imitation and adaptation, but we are dealing with an author designer who borrows structure and composition from architect and makes it his own. For example, the use of depth to convey a sense of design in three dimensions and not just in two dimensions or jewelry that has moving parts that the user can reconfigure,
and also in this approach often uses materials that are related to architecture and They enhance the sense of architecture like stainless steel architectonic jewelry is subset of modern jewelry that began in the 1930s. During this period, jewelry was offered under luxury brands names such as Tiffany and Cartier. These jewels were, more than anything, a symbol of wealth and investment. Variants of these jewelry have been from the Middle East and now the Chinese believe that they are luxury brands. The approach of these brands to jewelry was not as a work of art or a designed piece. Their tendency was to make the final product more expensive, using expensive materials such as gold or diamonds. From the Middle Ages to Art Nouveau in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the main value of jewelry was almost exclusively expensive. At this time, art jewelers in small studios were trying
Banafsheh Hemmati