Space as future luxury. How is it delving inside our cultural habits?
By Geeta Kaur Dhiman
Space as future luxury. How is it delving inside our cultural habits?
By Geeta Kaur Dhiman
Credits: R. Jay GaBany-NASA
Since the 1960s, the space race has significantly imprinted on society, art, design and fashion. Exploring space has inspired countless developments in science and technology. The pivotal moment when a human stepped foot on another world marked the beginning of a new chapter of human accomplishment. Whether it’s a primal urge to escape our origins or reach for the next horizon, the Space Age has changed the way designers visualize the new world, welcoming emerging phenomena. This futuristic style in jewellery can be characterized by a heavy use of digital lines, geometric and irregular shapes. A new exuberant colour pallet amalgamated with metallic, white, petrol blues and neon. The use of innovative materials and colour technologies exemplifies this sanguine outlook, reflecting optimism for a high-tech future.
Credits: Qannati + Frédéric Mané
Qannati’s Space conquest eternity bracelet tells the story of a spaceship launched into the uncharted universe. This futuristic piece features real meteorite and stainless steel from the 1992 Space Shuttle Discovery. Qannati’s Space quantum timepiece has NASA’s Voyager Disk engraved on the dial.
New peculiar design forms express space aesthetics. Examples: Igor Quagliata’s array of rocky and icy fragments neckpieces, comparable to pieces of moons and asteroids around dark holes, or lunar swirls found across the Moon's surface.
Credits: Igor Quagliata
Dennis Song’s Galaxy ring depicts an artist’s feelings around unfathomable depths and mysteries, symbolic of space in motion, visualizations of planet rings and flying atoms centring on a vivid blue diamond. Pierre Aymeric’s Galactic ring represents a space craft, centring a diamond and siderite.
Credits: Ming Song Haute Joaillerie and Pierre Aymeric
High precision digital operatives, colour graphics or numeric displays, are figurative of applications used in space technology. Digital lines in jewellery illuminate these gestalt and visual stimuli.
Credits: Tomasz Donocik, Erdong Jewelry and Faraone Mennella
Looking to the stars, has taught us to dream beyond the skies. We see not just distant space rocks but hope and humanity’s will to triumph.