this are the first pictures of a lovely project i´m working on

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as i told you, i met a lot of great people at THE HIVE in Berlin

one of them Dana of the amazing childrens clothing company TANNHAUSER

and after a short talk and two emails we decided to do a collaboration

- WSAKE fine jewellery for TANNHAUSER -

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meet the CROSS STITCH BUNCH

inspired by ancient cross stitch patterns - just like the prints of the collection

(more pictures coming soon for sure - and check out the first glimps of the LOOKBOOK shoot by Flannery O´Kafka)

yesterday they were shipped of to PLAYTIME PARIS and PLAYTIME NEW YORK

i couldn´t be more excited

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since i´m doing a lot of precise sawing by hand

i thought i wouldn´t get any better

but after working on these prototypes

it looks like i turned into a laser cutter

phew

work is crazy right now

food is the only thing keeping me sane

it always is

because i´m afraid i´m loosing it every time i get hungry

driving my bike becomes dangerous, things slipping from my hands, oh so grumpy mood...

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so thank you dear blog world for a few new soothing additions to my repertoire:

Fräulein Texts SWEET POTATOE CHIPS 

(do not let them get brown or you´ll end up like me nibbling the good orange stuff from brown burnt rims)

Heidi Swansons RHUBARB ROSEWATER SIRUP makes an awesome granita (as do those little green melons)

also i´m drying rose petals for her ROSE PETAL GRANOLA

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yesterday i got sentimental and made focaccia with grapes

 made it with my roommate a lot while studying

we tried every variation Jamie Oliver suggested

our favorites were tiny tomatoes + mozzarella and cherries, brown sugar + butter 

or stuffed with rocket, onions, gorgonzola, parmesan + herbs

yeast is not that good for my stomach but i just had to eat some

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any comforting food suggestions?

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TINY BOUQUET #10 BROKEN JAR

very disappointing leaking little pretty doll house jar

full of roadside weeds

the best kind

W really can make everything

missing pieces of a Rolls Royce, a dome for your steeple including a weathercock

my bed (and soon bed side table)

so this bowl was a trifle for him to create

also i have to add "unfinished" is not his thing

his work looks kind of perfect, like he´s some human machine

he asks ten times if i really want it to look that way

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we´re hooked now with coming up with goods for the kitchen and table

after all creating those kind of things is what silversmiths actually did do 

(well, for really posh tables of course)

not so often anymore

which is a shame

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so here´s the first glimpse of the DELICIOUS BOWL

can i tell him you like it, too - because i do

also: is "mmh..." really an international expression of culinary delight?

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two long gone TINY BOUQUETS

#8 WHITE MEADOW (WEIßE WIESE in German)

#9 NECTAROSCORDIUM (very onion-smelly)

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hopefully i grow old just like these columbine leaves

looking more beautiful every day

 

actually i´m a graphic designer you know 

so i put a few more of this kind of projects on my website 

including my thesis 

BENVENU - Abhandlungen ueber die Goldschmiedekunst und Sculptur

a new edition of the first handbook for goldsmithing

by the famous Renaissance man CELLINI

including posters and work sampling

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i really loved working on this

and dreamt of becoming a book designer

but then i couldn´t let go of jewellery design

now i wish i could do both

anyone?!

BENVENU - posters / BENVENU - book 



oh - i still have a few left over silkscreen printed ACANTHUS, KRANE, 3D
and V.I.T.R.I.O.L. (with a layer of fancy golden rub-off ink) posters
and SILVER PITCHER post cards
in case anyone wants to decorate their home 
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here you can see:
DRIVING (i left out the wavy looking step - it seamed to disturbe people not familiar with this technique)
RENAISSANCE SILVER PITCHER (since those are mostly fused-in, i rebuild one with silver necklaces instead)
NIELLO (Cellinis poem about the beauty of Tuscany written in wire, quite too much unruly to actually use it for Niello though)
UNROLLING
and the master himself
you´ll find work on alchemy, fusing, secret alphabets, enamel,
casting stones (and how to find them in a kranes stomach), casting huge sculptures (and enjoying a little salad after the devilish work is done)
and a lot of violence and murder
 in the book


i could get on and on
as is said - i LOVED it 


there`s a portrait series of at least 40 different hammers in the book
even though everone told me this is boring and way too much
but it isn´t!
those silver and goldsmith were forging all their life
their apprentices taking care of the hammers all day long, keeping them in shipshape
and those tools are so beautiful




ok - i stop now

 

a quick weird post

before a little sunny dinner on the veranda

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inspired (like a lot of bloggers) by ELISABETHS post

on showing your face on your blog

(RIKE is even smiling at us quite animated now - nice)

i think i only showed pictures of tiny me so far

and i still don´t feel comfortable showing too much

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BUT here are some paintings E (that´s my talented sister) made of me

(since pictures couldn´t do their colours justice i changed them a bit)

she actually did a lot of those

while i was quite immobilized by back pain

there´s even one of me taking a bath (sold)

an other time i have to show you her "early masterpiece" grumpy me

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also some pictures from a photo booth

i look a lot like W in his crazy hair time in those

(well, his hair is always crazy)

and really shocked by the flash

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where are you?