Craft & Bling Bling - Fake

Vernissage                                                                                                Magazine launch + Apéro

Thursday 05.06.,                                                                                        Monday 16.06.,

7–10 PM                                                                                                    5–10 PM

Depot Basel and Current Obsession, contemporary jewellery magazine, present a collaborative curatorial effort in the context of Depot Basel’s ongoing exhibition series ‘CRAFT &...’. For CRAFT & BLING BLING – FAKE they commissioned work by twelve 

jewellery makers reflecting on the subject of FAKE from standpoints of jewellery history, their own work mediums or contemporary art and society. Work by Manfred Nisslmüller, Suska Mackert, Johanna Dahm and Cloe Floirat accompany the exhibition. The exhibition becomes a feature in the #3 FAKE issue of the Current Obsession magazine accompanied by Thomas Albdorf‘s photographs. 

JEWELLERY MAKERS  

Adam Grinovich, Barbara Schrobenhauser, Edgar Mosa, Florian Milker, 

Florian Weichsberger, He Jing, Julia Walter, Kevin Hughes, Mallory 

Weston, Philipp Eberle, Rainer Kaasik-Aaslav, Sophie Hanagarth 

We are not a fair, nor a festival. 

Not a museum, a showroom or a gallery. 

We are a temporary place for contemporary design, 

only with the best intentions. 

www.depotbasel.ch

www.current-obsession.com

DEPOT BASEL

VOLTASTRASSE 43

4056 BASEL

SWITZERLAND

Opening times during Art Basel

17 – 22 June

11 – 6 PM

General opening times

Friday, Saturday,  2 PM – 7 PM

Sunday 2 PM – 6 PM

New Work and Solo Exhibition with Klimt02

A Fickle Sonance

European design, killing it since forever....

Matchbox designed by Kristina Stark, made in Sweden

Gloves from Scotch and Soda (Amsterdam)

The Book

Otto Künzli The Book, ed. Florian Hufnagl, Arnoldsche Art Publishers

I have good friends. One good friend just sent me Otto Künzli's The Book.

Otto Künzli, an icon in the jewelry field, has had a fantastic career which continues today. Featured in the book are many of Künzli's most well known pieces: Gold Makes You Blind, Oh Say!, Ring For Two. There are also pieces and images I had never seen before.

Especially noteworthy is the interview between Künzli and Walter Grasskamp. The interview is broken into sections piece by piece. Grasskamp and Künzli discuss each piece through its conception, process, and reception.

RISDJM.com

Friends Mariah Tuttle and Kamal Nassif created risdjm.com, a website showcasing the Rhode Island School of Design's jewelry and metalsmithing department. The site includes a directory of past and present students and news/events. 

A Scot In Sweden

Crowd 2013-13 by David Taylor

New Balance 1400

Speaking of shoes, my wife got me a great pair of grey New Balances for my birthday. The shoes are from J.Crew, made in collaboration with New Balance.

New Work

New additions to Series 4

More than 20 years later, still a great piece

Otto Kunzli, Oh Say!

Judge a book by its cover

James Bond in the Cinema by John Brosnan, The Tantivy Press, Cover by Stefan Dreja 

Cranbrook Academy of Art Catalog

Hot Water Music by Charles Bukowski, HaperCollins 

Three well designed book covers.

A Classic

Jewelry of Our Time by Helen W. Drutt English and Peter Dormer, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 

Jewelry of Our Time by Helen Drutt and Peter Dormer is a classic. I found the book during my undergraduate career and became fascinated with the diversity of artists and work. The book focuses on artists who pioneered the field of fine art jewelry after WWII. Gijs Bakker, Peter Chang, Ken Cory and Bernard Schobinger are some of the many artists featured in the book.

Klimt02 Interview

Klimt02 Interview

New Work

Check out Series 4

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