Set inside the Kiddell Gallery at Sotheby’s, New Bond Street, is a short-run exhibition September 16-20, curated by Janice Blackburn, featuring the work of 2009 graduates, plus a few still yet to graduate.
Janice has picked out the Sèvres project from the Royal College of Art (RCA), five MA jewellery graduates from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (CSM), plus photography and fine art.

The Sèvres project saw students from the RCA visiting the French porcelain manufacturer and designing a work in porcelain based on their findings. The company often hold on to project work, but this time have allowed Janice to not only display the work, but also allow it to be sold.
Designs ranged from a carefully arranged group of photographs of the traditional workshops and materials from Marc Trotereau, the Sèvres Vase Clock from Georgios Maridakis in which a classic Sèvres vase is tapped with a hammer, giving a musical chime sound from the porcelain. Els Woldhek decorated a traditional white porcelain teaset with line drawings of factory production methods in classic blue – as if modern Delftware.

David Amar took two classic Sèvres shapes, the Clermont Vase and the Litron cup and worked to see if he could improve the shape using algorithms – all his prototypes are for sale. Karen Price and Yoav Roches wanted to show people all the intricate ornate detailing in Sèvres 18th and 19th century pieces and created a series of lenses that highlight specific details to the viewer.

The jewellery designers shown at the exhibition include Sarah Rhodes, Momoko Tamura, Sophie Mann and Alice Cicolini. Alice’s work The Reverence project has been designed in carved ‘black coral’ wood, 24 carat gold and enamel and handmade in India by craftsmen trained in the traditions of enamelwork. Emma Yeo also studied on the course, but chose to move into fashion accessories and hats, for a collection entitled Predator & Prey, featuring ultra-fine laser-cut woods, gold-plated brass, faux suede and flocked plastic that create delicate spiraling pieces.

Lastly, but certainly not least came the series of pine wood stools by Fabien Cappello. Fabien makes the point that 1.8 million Christmas trees were abandoned last January in the streets of London and these stools are his demonstration of the waste of trees every year.

Marc Trotereau
Georgios Maridakis
Els Woldhek
Emma Yeo
Fabien Cappello

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