These are triangular earrings with slightly convex sides. The design reveals two blue and one light blue sections. These colours are achieved by ground-up lapis lazuli stone.
Encouraged by her mother, Mariana Schwedt attended sculpture workshops in her youth, where she found a place to express herself through art. After graduating from Industrial Design, she realised that she wanted to focus on manual design. "The word 'industrial' was too loud to me and I felt that the personal imprint of the creator would get lost along the way," says Mariana. Instead, she trained as a jeweller, combining design and handmaking small pieces of portable art. "I have always loved anything that is about making small pieces and involves fine motor skills. I love the timeless value of these small objects, pieces that transcend generations, not only with material value but with a great emotional value,” says Mariana. “I feel that I generate magic, an object with a lot of symbolic and energetic charge, a small amulet, a talisman."
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These are triangular earrings with slightly convex sides. The design reveals two blue and one light blue sections. These colours are achieved by ground-up lapis lazuli stone.
Photo: ©Mariana Schwedt
This is a necklace composed of three parts. The concave circular copper medal, a flat alpaca bar with a small convex bronze circle at the end, and three parallel lines which provide the base of the necklace.
Photo: ©Mariana Schwedt
This is a necklace composed of a thin chain with two hollow hexagons of different sizes (large and small) at each end. The end of the chain with the larger hexagon passes through the smaller hexagon.
Photo: ©Mariana Schwedt
This is a ring composed of two sections. One part has a very rough and shiny texture, with a glitter effect. The other is smooth and mirrored and has very small perforations all over the surface.
Photo: ©Mariana Schwedt
This pendant is composed of several intertwined steel chords. It has two silver pieces in the shape of a concave triangle. One of the pieces is very small, rough textured and shiny. The other is large with a texture of overlapping curved lines and a satin finish.