SALLY

Right now I'm working with the colorful pages of the RISKO book.
The princess earrings are the the first of my very new line SALLY, inspirited by Risko drawings and his use the solids colors to which I wanted to add a certain 70's flavor.

By the way character in the page I used for these earrings is princess Diana.

CUT/ FOLD/STITCH:

Paper/ Metal

Finally the day of the exhibition has arrived!
I have been invited to participate to this show at the Aaron Faber gallery in New York.
These are my 12 pieces:

The show explores the relationship between two studio jewelry materials - metal and paper - and the techniques artists share in manipulating these materials to create contemporary jewelry.


There are 95 works in the exhibition, created by 23 studio jewelry artists, most from Europe and the United Kingdom, as well as Israel, the United States and Canada.

The exhibition continues through April 19, and is a highlight of the SOFA NYC 2009 exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory, this year taking place April 16 through April 19.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Ingrid Adriaenssens
Noa Goren-Amir
Ursula Bonderer
Shimara Carlow
Jocelyn Chateauvert
Roland Dubuc
Francesca Vitali
Simone Haag
Gerlinde Huth
Pawel Kaczynski
Anna S. King
Esther Knobel
Natalia Krasnodebska
Soledad Kussrow
Chihiro Makio
Ayesha Mayadas
Biba Schutz
Catriona Stevenson
Dorothee Striffler
Silvia Uhlenbruch
Myung Urso
Els Vansteelandt
Arek Wolski



If you happen to be in the Big Apple between today and April 19th, don't miss the chance to visit the show:

Aaron Faber Gallery
666 5th Av/W 53rd St
New York, NY 10103

Vi presento Clizia

the new eco-earrings collection

I have been looking for a new origami design for some time now and today I’m finally launching my last addition to the Girasoli family: Clizia.

As for the rest of the “family” Clizia earrings are based on eco-design. Colorful magazine pages are cut in little square, folded and beads are stitched on.

And if you are wondering about the name Clizia, here is the story:

In Roman mythology Clizia was in love with Apollo (god of light and the sun), who abandoned her for Leucothea. Clizia was so angered that she told Leucothoe's father about the affair and the rival was buried alive. Apollo in anger at Clizia left her sat naked, with neither food nor drink, for nine days on a rock staring at the sun, Apollo, and mourning his departure. After nine days, the suffering turned Clizia yellow and brown, and she was transformed into a sunflower (Girasole) which turns its head always to look longingly at Apollo's chariot of the sun.

Work in progress

I'm working on some new pieces for an exhibition at the Aaron Faber Gallery next March (more details about the exhibition will come later)

Here is a snap shot of what's going on on my desk this morning:

I have just finished to embroider SCRIBBLE PETALI

Sunday afternoon desk mess

This is a snap shot of my desk last Sunday afternoon

I'm trying to study new possible shapes for my origami paper jewelry line.

More origami paper jewelry

“YOUR GIFT IS ON ITS WAY” card

Last year I had some very last minute Christmas shopper who found my work few hours before gift opening night. I made for each of them one personalized “YOUR GIFT IS ON ITS WAY” card. Also this year I decided to offer my customers the same choice.

HOW IT WORKS:
1-You find the gift that you like, for example Chiara earrings

2-BUT it is already the 23rd and it is too late to receive it by next night, you can buy it any way and send me a message (convo in Etsy language) or an email (fruccidesign@gmail.com) and I’ll prepare a personalized card for your gift:

3-I’ll send you (at no extra charge) a pfd file of the card that you can be easily printed at home, you’ll just need to have Adobe Reader (free download here) and a printer

4-Place you card under your tree and enjoy your Merry Christmas night!!

Frucci Design jewelry at OCMA

This weekend the 2008 California Biennial (CB08) will open at the Orange County Museum of Art.

Recently the exhibition has emerged as an important indicator of emerging art and artists working in California. This year’s biennial is guest-curated by Lauri Firstenberg and it includes works by more than 50 artists and, for the first time, incorporates off-site projects with collaborating venues from Tijuana to Northern California.

I was much honored to be asked to send a selection of my paper jewelry for the museum retail shop. These piece and more are at the store for the grand opening!

By the way if you haven’t visit the online museum collection check it out here

UNLEASHED IDEA

Have you ever had impression of a concept buried in your mind and it seems it cannot make it out of there, like if it is not quite ready to come out?
I have...all the time!
And I’m so luck, I always find the trigger to pull it out of there!

This time it was a customer who asked for a pair of earring to match INSERTO R pendant

her request has unleashed this idea for new earrings that was floating in one of my brain drawers for quite some time

Thank you Jolene!

Aber TERRA necklace

I love colors and I generally try to incorporate them as much as I can in my work

...but sometime it just doesn't happen!

WORDY GIRASOLE RING

WORDY is the newest ring of the GIRASOLE line.
GIRASOLE means sunflower in Italian, and this origami shape reminds me of those funny dynamic flowers!

This ring is a mix of old techniques reinterpreted with the eco friendly modern language:

RECYCLED PAPER :is there anything that make you feel better than make what you like knowing that is good for our planet?
ORIGAMI: folding paper have always fascinate me, and recently I have revisited this technique by adding an other of my obsession: BEADS!
EMBROIDERY is one of the first thing I can remember doing as a “little child soon crafter to be”. Apparently this runs in my genes, my grandmother was a very good and known embroider.
PEYOTE STITCH is one of the basic stitch for beaders and yet one of the most widely used, because it can be very easy or very intricate and versatile.
I’ll soon post a tutorial on peyote stitch, I think everybody has to try it once!



WORDY e’ il nuovo anello della collezione GIRASOLE.

Quest’anello reinterpreta tecniche antiche con il linguaggio moderno del design ecologico:
LA CARTA RECICLATA: mi fa sentire cosi bene poter creare sapendo che lo faccio in modo “verde”
GLI ORIGAMI: piegare e ripiegare la carta mi ha sempre affascinato, recentemente ho rivisitato questa tecnica aggiungendole un’altra delle mie ossessioni: le PERLINE!
IL RICAMO: e’ una delle prime cose che ricordo facevo da bambina. Decisamente una caratteristica genetica, visto che mia nonna era una vera esperta nel campo!
IL PUNTO PEYOTE: uno dei punti base dei lavori di perline, e’ uno punto versatile che puo’ essere molto semplice ma anche molto complesso.
Al piu’ presto pubblicherò un tutoria su questo punto, perche’ credo che tutti devono provarlo almeno una volta!

MATTONELLA

MATTONELLA is the newest pendant in my shop.
The name means tile in Italian, and of course it is inspired by the shape of this pendant, but also by all the little squares/tiles that form the pendant...so I guess it is a double tile, or a tile of tiles!

The material I’ve used for this pendant is recycled paper, to be more precise I used few pages of a magazine called DRUG DISCOVERY news, a magazine dedicated to drugs research business.

The technique I’ve used is a mix of weave and embroider.
That’s a theme very common to all my work: old techniques applied to an unconventional material.

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MATTONELLA e’ il nuovo pendente nel mio negozio .
Il nome e’ ispirato dal dalla sua forma e dal fatto che in fondo e’ formato da piccole mattonelle, si potrebbe dire che e’ un mosaico di mattonelle!
Per farlo ho usato carta riciclata, per dirla tutta ho usato delle pagine di un giornale specializzato in ricerca di nuovi farmaci (DRUG DISCOVERY news).
La tecnica usata e’ un misto di tessitura e ricamo.
Vecchie tecniche riadattate a materiali non convenzionali: questo e’ un tema ricorrente nel mio lavoro!