Eve Bracelet

This women’s only bracelet is made of extruded alu­minum, man­u­fac­tured in an entirely indus­trial process, each bracelet has spe­cific char­ac­ter­is­tics that make it unique. It is also com­pletely recy­clable. Designed by swedish mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary firm Claes­son Koivisto Rune. Read what the design­ers had to say about this prod­uct after the break.

Alu­minium is a fan­tas­tic mate­r­ial. Strong. Light­weight. Beau­ti­ful. Often employed in tech­ni­cal con­struc­tions and indus­tri­ally formed and man­u­fac­tured, but sel­dom seen in a con­text where aluminium’s beauty becomes appar­ent. A typ­i­cal appli­ca­tion for alu­minium is extruded pro­files. Lead­ing the world in extruded alu­minium is the Swedish com­pany Sapa Pro­filer. Usual prod­ucts man­u­fac­tured using the tech­nique are, for exam­ple, win­dow frames or radi­a­tor fins in elec­tri­cal equip­ment. Very tech­ni­cal and very indus­trial. At Sapa, works a man called Peter Richter. He knows every­thing there is to know about, for exam­ple, how thinly walled a pro­file can be or how small the inte­rior radii of a hole can be. He also rel­ishes a good chal­lenge. Pas­cal Cot­tard – Ols­son is a dri­ving force in Stockholm’s design scene. Through her design gallery and col­lec­tion she has per­sis­tently high­lighted the artis­tic value of design. Pas­cale has also been a good friend of ours for many years. For Col­lec­tion Pas­cale we have cre­ated a unique piece of jew­ellery. A bracelet that we have cho­sen to call Eve. The bracelet Eve is formed of extruded alu­minium. By rotat­ing the raw extru­sion and at the same time cut­ting it at dif­fer­ent angles, a large num­ber of bracelets with vary­ing dimen­sions are made. In addi­tion, we have cho­sen sev­eral vari­a­tions for the sur­face treat­ment (ano­dis­ing) to give the bracelets dif­fer­ent char­ac­ters. Despite the fact that the man­u­fac­tur­ing process is entirely indus­trial and the raw mate­r­ial is formed via a sin­gle tool the result is a jew­ellery series where each piece dif­fers from the next — each bracelet is unique.

—Mårten Claes­son, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune Claes­son Koivisto Rune Stock­holm, Feb­ru­ary 2008