David Bielander’s bracelets

The David Bielander’s bracelets look like cardboard, but in reality are precious, in gold or silver. It perhaps seems bizarre idea, that implies the concept of false identity: an object built a poor material, could very well be the gift for Mother’s Day in elementary school, and is instead an accessory very sophisticated technique. The surface is coated, while the interior is just as corrugated cardboard packaging, ie two sheets enclosing a corrugated paper. But, unlike the version cellulose, here the metal is bent and shaped by hand, and there is even the paperclip that is normally used to close the packaging. Of course, the copy is much more precious than the original, but only the weight, temperature, and the sound of the bracelet reveals his true nature. In this case, however, it overturns the saying that not all gold that glitters. In any case, the idea has shone enough to convince the jury of the Bavarian State Prize to assign the designer of contemporary jewelry, born in Basel and then Monaco based, the 2015 award . Here are pictures of this capsule collection named Cardboard. Lavinia Andorno