Meet the Makers
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Johnston's of Elgin Elgin, Scotland  |
  The crafting of handbags is an underrated artistry, one that designer, Anton Edelshtein, of OMTURA label, employs seamlessly to blur the space between body and accessory, turning bags into true extensions of people. Using inspirations from varying sources, particularly the spiritual source of shamanism and more contemporary sources of urbanism and futurism, Edelshtein has found himself with a characteristic style of industrial minimalism that focuses intently on the craftsmanship of pieces. |
 Kathrin Kirchhoff Berlin, Germany  Every piece of my collection is handmade in my workshop in Berlin. Since 8 years I produce simple and elegant dresses without "chichi ore schnick schnack." We love to come in contact with our customers and realize made by measure and special orders. Silk is my passion. |
 Rosh Mahtani Rosh Mahtani graduated from Oxford University, where she read French and Italian. Not long after, she created Alighieri Jewelry. Alighieri is a collection of jewelry inspired by Dante Alighieri’s ‘Divine Comedy’; each piece corresponds to one of the poet’s 100 poems. As the pilgrim journeys through the realms of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, he encounters mythical creatures, scraggy landscapes, and terrifying demons. Just like Dante’s subjects, each piece of jewelry is battered, imperfect, and a little bit melancholy. The sea crabs have endured shipwrecks, and the lobster claws have been dismembered; foxes’ heads are mangled from turbulent wars, and tree branches are washed up on the shore. Alighieri is an ongoing anthology that lies in the intersection between literature, art, and fashion. |
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Designer Sarai Capael founded her first indie label in 2004; the two labels shown here are Sarai Capael and Queen & Company Chandlery. Her formal training include Fashion Business at FIT, Masters of Architecture at Boston Architectural College [continuing], Courses in Architecture at Harvard and a B.A. in Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Notre Dame. She is also an advertising photographer and writer, who travels often and has lived in Spain, Chicago, San Francisco and New York. Sarai Capael has been designing across multiple disciplines since 1999. |
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Tim Lambert was born in England where he spent the first 25 years of his life. The second of three sons, from an early age Tim was fascinated with how metal could be transformed into art. Tim is a prolific artist that channels his passion for ancient civilizations into his pieces. He muses that his work should feel as though it was found at an ancient Greek archeology dig, and indeed it does, with his own personal style included. Tim has made a commitment to using ONLY RECYCLED GOLD from Hoover and Strong, Inc. so you can feel good, not guilty, about purchasing gold jewelry! |
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Samaelle is the work of a composer, cellist, metalsmith, photographer, traveller, computer geek, new media artist, architecture enthusiast, student of religion and esotericism, and ex-ballerina, among a few other things. Inspired by Wagner and the Wiener Werkstatte, she strives for 'gesamtkunstwerk' - comprehensive art work... an alchemical synthesis of all her passions for numerous realms of art and design. |
 Arturas Kanapkis Kaunas, Lithuania  |
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The creation of the candles started me playing with different architectural forms. I began the deconstruction of Platonic solids that led me to the discovery of existing sculptural models . . . . When the candle prototypes were finished I faced another challenge: engineering production molds. The matrix from which these delicate and beautiful pieces originate are the molds. With the support of 3D technology, computer simulation, and traditional methods of casting I created these diverse ethereal forms. |
 Diana Nagorna Ukraine  |
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We are a design couple and have been working together for 5 years. We met at school and founded a mutual friendship based on polarizing design philosophies. We design our middle ground and somehow it works! |
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NFP’s ability to turn upside-down, backwards, and creatively mold, secures the sustainability of each garment. It supports a more socially conscious and resourceful lifestyle through appreciation of highly designed, multi-functional product. Rooted in timeless architectural shapes, New Form Perspective’s goal is to encourage minimizing the disposable mindset of recent fashion, and increase awareness of fashion’s strength to be an enhancement to our basic environment and personal self. Ultimately sharing the beauty of fashion through it’s ability to be inventive and creative while maintaining a wearable artform. N:F:P positively motivates each individual towards a more personalized interaction between designer and consumer. After working in the high-end fashion design world in NYC for the past 10 years, for companies such as Calvin Klein, Shelly Steffee, and Vera Wang, she has fatefully been guided to design her own brand free from mainstream trends. Her collection is inspired by her surroundings, personal interactions, experience of movement, and architecture and sculpture. Ultimately these inspirations morph into the modular, building-block nature of her designs. |
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The technical and aesthetic composition of artifact becomes metaphorical model for the reconstruction of the world. In the light of these considerations, necessarily the industrial design must be a driving force behind the modernization of production that puts people at the center of design thinking through a deep path of trans-disciplinary knowledges. This new way of doing design opens the door to a new form of culture, which harmoniously blends the disciplines of humanities, such as philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology along with scientific disciplines such as engineering materials and machinery, and biotechnologies. The methodological process is alchemic. The jewels allow to explore the poetic reactions between objects and the body, others and the space around us. The works bud from a crossbreeding of materials and techniques, both digital and handcrafted. Cold materials like silver, steel, plexiglass are hybridize with warm materials like silk, cotton, porcelain. The same mixing is made between different techniques as haute couture tailoring techniques, digital prints, industrial chemical cut, laser cut, rapid prototyping. All is finalized to investigate a new kind of jewel as intersection point between design and art, craftsmanship and industry, humanity and technology. |
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Thank you very much, for coming and looking at my books. I have loved the feel of books since I was very young, and have been repairing old books and making my own for the last forty years, or so. I am a traditional craftsman. All of the books I make have hand-sewn (Smyth-sewn) bindings, sewn in signatures. I am hard on the books that I make for myself, so the ones I make for my store are very durable. I delight in all the possibilities for bookmaking offered by different materials: leather, wood, cloth, different papers. All of my books will be a little hard for me to sell, because I love so much to handle them, to feel the leather or the wood, to flip the pages and feel the quality of the binding. I hope that you will love them just as much. |
 L. Sue Szabo
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Nurit
Raanana, Israel  |
 Siga Shoes Houston, TX - USA  In a tiny workshop in Colombia, we found a a shoe artisan making beautiful, high quality, handmade shoes, and together with our exclusive designs developed our first line of Siga shoes, always thinking first and foremost about how they would impact the lives of the women that would wear them. And we promise you: our shoes will have style and personality, be ultra comfortable, and always be of the highest quality, 100% leather, artisanal construction- without exception. |
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Studio Fuscra Studio Fuscra – products, that are not perfect but show the contemporary style with a unique story behind: the story of an arboreal essence and history of a new production process that rethinks fashion accessories in a new guise sustainable. |
 Lior Livne Tel Aviv, Israel  I am Lior Livne, the designer and owner of Liebling Shoes.
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Bianca Georgescu, a young Romanian designer of footwear and accessories, has devoted her life to chasing the perfection only a handmade shoe can deliver. Integrity comes with experience and years in ateliers of Bucharest and Milan have ensured the precision and ability to bring design dreams to life. |
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Klara Hultén London, UK  Klara Hultén is a small leather accessory brand based in north London. Klara herself graduated from London College of Fashion in 2013. All our products are lovingly hand made in our London studio by our team. |
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My name is Sabrina Weigt, and I live and work in Berlin, Germany. I make high quality knitwear and knitted accessories for my shop, THE KNIT KID. |
Bianca Georgescu
