Summary: A novel viewpoint and sensibilities set South African jewellery designers apart from their associates around the world. And thanks to the web, they can offer their services around the world just as easily as they offer them in their hometown.
It's more than nationalistic pride. South African jewellery designers have something special to offer the world because their abilities, sensibilities and design ideas are uniquely informed by the culture in which they live and the things they experience in the colourful nation every day.
Perhaps just as importantly , South Africa is developing a reputation as a country that produces top quality artisans of all sorts, so it's no wonder some of the most sought-after and accomplished jewellery designers in the world call this nation at the bottom of the world their home.
Artists Represent Their Homelands
The jewellery design world is a comparatively tiny one. A restricted number of talented craftspeople working with a limited number of stones and metals are challenged to create a never ending array of unique pieces to serve the specific wants of clients around the planet.
No two designers share the same life experiences nonetheless , so every nations designers are artfully influenced by their upbringing and the values of the communities that surround them.
That's the reason why a South African jewellery designer â€" working within the guidelines established by the client â€" will make a piece that's uniquely their own style. Training processes and techniques are fairly standardized around the world, but the South African experience itself informs every turn of the designer's hand during the creation of a custom made piece.
There is a lot worth saying for today's global economy, but there's also still a lot to be said for the individual cultural experiences that determine each of our lives. Since each designer is a unique person with a different background, choosing a South African jewellery designer makes sure your design experience will be different than any other you might find internationally.
Artists Now Serve The World
The Web means that a man in Chicago, planning to shock his girl with an engagement ring, can have that piece of jewelry custom-designed by an independent designer anywhere globally. There may be a respected designer right round the corner in his very own city, but working with him is no easier than working with one living halfway around the globe.
Thanks to the reputation of an individual designer or maybe because of the man in Chicago's want for something exotic, something worldly or something grander than his confined life, he chooses to have a designer on the other side of the planet make the ring that will kickstart a new chapter in his life.
Using the e-mail capabilities on his smartphone, he makes contact. The designer writes back, they strike a deal, then inspiration photos and preliminary designs fly across the web from his Chicago office to the designer's Cape Town studio. During several e-mails, the ring of his dreams comes forth from the wealth of raw materials available to the South African creator.
Merely a decade or 2 ago, the skills of a South African jewellery designer would've been beyond the reach of a husband-to-be in Chicago, London or Berlin. Now, it's within reach.
All the world's potential is in reach of everyone with an Internet connection. And when that Chicago man's girl slips on a symbol made by a designer who will never meet her in person, perhaps she feels how special she is.
A designer in a far away land designed for her the ring that suggests her man will invariably be close.
It's more than nationalistic pride. South African jewellery designers have something special to offer the world because their abilities, sensibilities and design ideas are uniquely informed by the culture in which they live and the things they experience in the colourful nation every day.
Perhaps just as importantly , South Africa is developing a reputation as a country that produces top quality artisans of all sorts, so it's no wonder some of the most sought-after and accomplished jewellery designers in the world call this nation at the bottom of the world their home.
Artists Represent Their Homelands
The jewellery design world is a comparatively tiny one. A restricted number of talented craftspeople working with a limited number of stones and metals are challenged to create a never ending array of unique pieces to serve the specific wants of clients around the planet.
No two designers share the same life experiences nonetheless , so every nations designers are artfully influenced by their upbringing and the values of the communities that surround them.
That's the reason why a South African jewellery designer â€" working within the guidelines established by the client â€" will make a piece that's uniquely their own style. Training processes and techniques are fairly standardized around the world, but the South African experience itself informs every turn of the designer's hand during the creation of a custom made piece.
There is a lot worth saying for today's global economy, but there's also still a lot to be said for the individual cultural experiences that determine each of our lives. Since each designer is a unique person with a different background, choosing a South African jewellery designer makes sure your design experience will be different than any other you might find internationally.
Artists Now Serve The World
The Web means that a man in Chicago, planning to shock his girl with an engagement ring, can have that piece of jewelry custom-designed by an independent designer anywhere globally. There may be a respected designer right round the corner in his very own city, but working with him is no easier than working with one living halfway around the globe.
Thanks to the reputation of an individual designer or maybe because of the man in Chicago's want for something exotic, something worldly or something grander than his confined life, he chooses to have a designer on the other side of the planet make the ring that will kickstart a new chapter in his life.
Using the e-mail capabilities on his smartphone, he makes contact. The designer writes back, they strike a deal, then inspiration photos and preliminary designs fly across the web from his Chicago office to the designer's Cape Town studio. During several e-mails, the ring of his dreams comes forth from the wealth of raw materials available to the South African creator.
Merely a decade or 2 ago, the skills of a South African jewellery designer would've been beyond the reach of a husband-to-be in Chicago, London or Berlin. Now, it's within reach.
All the world's potential is in reach of everyone with an Internet connection. And when that Chicago man's girl slips on a symbol made by a designer who will never meet her in person, perhaps she feels how special she is.
A designer in a far away land designed for her the ring that suggests her man will invariably be close.
About the Author:
Petra Bierberg, owner of a jewellery design comapny in South Africa, mixes her fondness for two things in her writing: custom-designed jewellery and her home country S. A.. South African jewellery designers hold a special place in his heart because they spread goodwill about her homeland around the globe.