We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Camilla Marcondes about their original and creative Bracelet design work. Camilla Marcondes is an award-winning fashion designer, that makes our world a better place with their original bracelet works.
Camilla Marcondes ("CM") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Michael Thonet Tribute Bracelet. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
CM : The main idea for my bracelet design was the 150th aniversary of the most popular Thonet's chair.
CM : My focus was to represent the woven cane in a flat metal sheet, not braiding the metal, but using a laser cut technique.
CM : I will keep it in my catalog for a while, but only for special orders. I don't want to produce it on a large scale.
CM : The bracelet idea was pretty fast, the hard work was to design it. It was used a real woven cane, measuring the entire braided pattern, sketching over it. After the vetorial drawing, many tests were made to determinate the size of the empty elements. I believe it had taken a whole week to finalize the design.
CM : I am a furniture design lover, all my inspiration comes from architecture, geometry. I love Thonet's design, I love even more wood and natural woven, and I already had used it in others designs. I was starting to design a new collection when I read in a magazine about the Thonet's chair celebration. I was in a 'metal laser cut moment' and the idea to represent the woven cane in metal sheet came quickly.
CM : The bracelet had a small production, only 50 units and was sold in my own store. Now, the production is only by order.
CM : Bracelets are my favorite accessory. I love to wear them and love even more to design them. When my inspiration came, I even didn't think in other product.
CM : Lots of them, the Bauhaus designers influence me, brazilian architects like Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa too. But my father was the first one to influence me, teaching me the beauty of shapes.
CM : First of all, paper and pencil. I also have to build the elements to test the size, so scissor, cutter and card paper was used to sketch. For the laser cut metal sheet I used AutoCad software. To assemble all the parts I need goldsmithing tools to shape the metal into a bracelet, fix the two metal layers, etc
CM : It's a large and bold bracelet, however it's vey light because the metal sheets are very thin.
CM : Yes, Harpia Tec is the metal cutter company which attends me for almost 10 years.
CM : I was very happy with result of this design. I think I achived exactly what I wanted to. The design was highly praised, not only by customers, but brazilian fashion designers and celebrities. So I decided to submit it to A'Design Awards.
CM : I improve myself in every work I am in, specially when it's a new experience, a new material, a new technique or even a new partner. In this particular case I improved a lot my vectorial drawing skills and I also had to improve my patience, I'm kidding. I had to re-draw dozens of times this woven pattern until I reach the best fit.
