Chaverdi’s inspiration

This is the vieuw from Chaverdi’s window. It is the lake of Banyoles, imposing, sleepy and romantic air, as all lakes have. At the same time it is a symbol of live. Here children play, people swim, you walk around it and there are competitions as the World Canoeing Championship that will be held in 2010.

I like lakes. The sea always takes the flatteries, but a lake keeps an special authenticity. Not long ago they published a list of the nicest lakes in the world. Among them were the Plitvice in Croacia, the Crater Lake, the Dead Sea, the Caspian Sea, Lake Titicaca and Lake Atitlan. That’s my favorite. It is located in Guatemala, surrounded by volcanoes and seems to be beyond time and space. In Atitlan, whose water is blue as the Caribe and charges positive energy, there are many little towns and small ecologic hotels, as the Lomas de Tzunumá, with huge wooden balconies hanging above the lake. To lean out and see the daybreak is an experience of absolute luxury.

Nature, together with Art and Culture are the inspiring sources of our designers; somehow this lake is behind Chaverdi’s jewelry and fashion jewelry. It is nice to shift the sight from the computer and the papers and take a look through the window. This way the color of water, the sky and the plants becomes very present. Afterwards we go back to our limited editions, our necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings and we feel that there is a bridge between what we do and what we see from our room with a view.

P.S.: Which are your favorite lakes?

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PICK OF THE WEEK

Silver plated bracelet. Aros collection. Designer: Nadia Rabosio

You will like it if you like: design in the right mesure, without complications or excess.
For women: who leave home at 8 am and don’t know if by the end of the day there will be a party.
You can wear it with: an oversize bracelet, mixing without fear sizes and materials.
Why do we choose it: because it is inspired in Nature, by  rain water falling in the lake.

Surrealist ring

Chaverdi is located in Banyoles (Spain). Everybody knows that Banyoles is nearby Figueres and  Cadaqués.  Everybody knows that those places are Dalí’s. Everybody knows that Dalí is one of the outstanding surrealist authors. And that Surrealism is one of the great movements  of the 20th century. So far, everything is clear.

What not everybody knows is that in our way we wanted to pay a little  tribute to Surrealism in a year where marvelous exhibitions are held to honor the creativity of this movement. For example, Pompidou in Paris exhibits up to January the 12th “The Subversion of the Images”,  a review of pictures and surrealistic cinema. The MoMA in New York shows this movement with an erotic touch. The exposition is called “The Erotic Object” and you can visit it up to January the 4th.

And the theme of objects is of course very interesting to us. We aimed at designing a piece of fashion jewelry that is fun, that is a surprise, as if it would be a really weir, almost a surreal object. It is all about a double ring.  It is an exclusive design, part of a limited edition, as everything we do.

Who said that one ring can only be for one finger?

Image: Man Ray.  Painted hands. 1935

PICK OF THE WEEK

Silver plated ring with onix
Designed by Barbara Chimenti. Suite collection.

You will like it if you like: Elsa Shiaparelli ‘s dresses, strange and puzzling

objects from  Meret Oppenheim.
For women: who keep a surprise on their fingers.
You can wear it with: nothing else. A ring is worn solo. Mix it with a balloon skirt,

with an up-to-the-ankle trousers, with a T-shirt of organic cotton. With a nice nail polish.
Why do we choose it: because it is an unexpected piece and we like to buy rings.

Image: Salvador Dalí. Teléfono Bogavante. 1937