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Q1 Pease tell us your brief profile and working career. Why did you become designer?
Born and raised in Switzerland I graduated as a goldsmith at the Art school in St. Gallen, then I attended the gemmology-course (DGG) in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. After that I studied as a guest at the School for Design in Hanau, Germany and finally I graduated as jewellery- and product designer at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. |
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Since 1994 I have been working as a designer in my own studio in Zurich.
It is the fascination to extract aspects of our material world, which are hidden behind its superficial appearance. It is the fascination to think about daily things, about their sense and nonsense, their utility, their sensuality beyond time- and trend bound consumption, about their function as a communicative element in interpersonal relations.
Q2 Could you tell us about the brand? What is the concept behind it?
design contains the possibility of evoking thoughts, which can lead to a very personal and close relationship with the respective item. Design in the sense of creation is more than just design that's true to form and function. Creative design is a statement, an expression of the needs of any give society, of personal thoughts and feelings. |
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Q4 Which celebrities are wearing?
Whether famous or not I wish they are persons who develop a personal relation to one of my objects.
Q5 Who is your dream collaborator?
Someone who treats his environment with spirit, humor, sensuality, empathy and respect. |
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Q6 What do you feel important when you are working on your pieces?
The transformation of a an idea considered precious into a material object such as a jewellery is an act of making visible, touchable and offers me the opportunity to transport a substantial message. Nevertheless there should rest space for thoughts, emotions and wishes of its bearer and serve this person as a bearer.
I wish that my products stimulate the persons to reflect and inspire them to pay attention to their emotions and sensuality. I wish that these objects may accompany a person for the rest of its life as a preciosity.
Q7 When is the most important time of your day?
The moments, whether during the day or at night, when my heart beats, when i have the feeling, that my work is born from my heart. |
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Q13 Favorite word or phrase
This poem by Elisabeth Lasker-Schüler
I love you
I love you
and find you,
even though the day grows dark.
All my life until now-
I have wandered searching.
I love you!
I love you!
I love you!
Your lips are opening....
The world is deaf, the world is blind,
even the cloud and the leaf.
Only we two-made
of golden dust- are!
(Translated by Janine Canan)
Q14 Could you tell us about your next collection? Any future plans?
In my next project I experiment with the trial of conserving love and happiness. It is centered in the pomander fruit. Formerly used in medicine today it is important to recover it for the health of our hearts. |
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Q15 Do you have any advice for the young people?
Trust your feelings, believe in your dreams and wishes.
Treat yourself and your environment with humor, love, respect and concern.
Q16 What is your goal? What do you want to achieve in your career?
If I can contribute a little that people reflect that there are more important things in life than money, glory and power and by that experience happy moments in their lifes, because they give happiness with their love and receive it, I achieve my primary goal.
Besides that we are responsible for men, animals, nature and its resources. Subjects as exploitation, torture and waste have to be taken serious and in account in a market as the jewellery branch, dominated by superficial throw-away- and prestige-products. |
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EVE Design contains the possibility of evoking thoughts which can lead to a very personal and close relationship with the respective item. design in the sense of creation is more than just design that's true to form and function. creative design is a statement, an expression of the needs of any give society, of personal thoughts and feelings. cretive design delivers content and commits to a communicative and emotional task. creative design tires to make the incomprehensible comprehesible, in relation to the human being and as an expression of humnan relationships in the context of social needs and connotations. |
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Creative design delivers content and commits to a communicative and emotional task. creative design tires to make the incomprehensible comprehensible, in relation to the human being and as an expression of human relationships in the context of social needs and connotations.
The products of eve-design prime for their high quality and precision, due to employment of sophisticated state-of-art technology and accurate handcraft.
Produced exclusively in Switzerland, high quality standards of the employed materials and their transformation are valued, but it is not about merely decorative products, they transmit sense and sensuality, emotion and spirit.
Q3 Could you tell us about your latest trade shows or projects that you are working on right now?
We are about to present new products in the category of "lovetoys". They have been exposed as prototypes in an exhibition with the same name in Zurich, two years ago.
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| The cockring NONSENSE will be introduced in the market in the next weeks. Like the rings FLAME and SEVENTH-HEAVEN it is based on the principle of bearings and will be available in two versions. The similar product for the women is the rin-no-tama (lust balls). They are made of gorgeous gem-spheres, combined with swinging precious metal spheres. |
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Q8 Currently which stores carry your brand in the world? Price range?
I am represented by galleries in Europe (Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg). Scheduled for next year is the introduction in other European countries as well as in the USA.
The prices range from about CHF 500 upwards.
Q9 What do you think about design industry in your country?
In our small country, compared to its size, a lot of extraordinary design in all categories is being produced. Technically innovative, perfectly manufactured, puristic in its design we can explore a long tradition. Ranging from Swiss-army pocket-knives to traditional watch-design up to daily innovative developments in high-tech industries Swiss design enjoys worldwide a high reputation.
Q10 Are there any places or countries you would like to visit?
The unperceivable depths of the oceans. |
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Q11 Do you wish to buy something right now? Currently are you into something?
The real precious is not for sale: health, love and happiness.
Q12 Do you have anyone, any place, anything that you are strongly inspired by recently?
My newly recovered love. |
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