Fernando Jorge’s new jewelry assortment uncovers the sensual properties of wooden

‘The selection of supplies is a elementary a part of the story of a group and has the power to carry one thing private to every piece,’ says jewelry designer Fernando Jorge, who has labored with Brazilian Purple Louro wooden and brown diamonds for his new jewelry assortment, Deep Stream. ‘I’ve at all times been drawn to pure supplies and have been in search of the suitable alternative to introduce wooden. Purple Louro wooden particularly shouldn’t be solely aesthetically compelling but additionally significant as it’s native from the Amazon and sourced by native communities. Now we have labored in collaboration with Idesam, an NGO since 2020 and proceed to assist it. This full circle story helps me to connect with my Brazilian heritage.’

Jorge unites this heritage along with his distinctive sculptural silhouettes within the items which embody rings, earrings and bracelets. Snaking across the physique, their curved types carry a fluid flexibility to wooden, increasing the concepts Jorge started to discover within the Stream assortment a decade in the past. ‘Again then, my first Stream items had been showcased by a jewelry gallery at PAD London,’ Jorge provides. ‘Deep Stream was created with PAD in thoughts, as a technique to interpret my aesthetic inside a collectible design setting. I selected to work with a local wooden from the Brazil’s Amazon forest and drew inspiration from the exuberance of the area. The flowing motion of water was the unique inspiration for the Stream assortment. For this particular Collection, I used extra quantity and scale to channel the facility of the Amazon River. The wooden together with brown diamonds completely represents its deep wealthy color.’

Working with wooden was not with out its challenges for Jorge, who discovered methods to accommodate its pure properties. ‘It’s extra porous and fibrous and subsequently extra affected by its setting. We needed to perceive these complexities and shield the wooden on the completed items. The unusually dry climate within the Amazon area additionally made it fairly difficult to search out supplies that weren’t overly dehydrated, an attention-grabbing reminder of how all the pieces is interconnected.’

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