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Christine Cheron is the third generation of the French enameling studio Sarl Cheron Tessier, the last studio specializing in grayscale and the miniature technique. One technique that Christine Cheron has learned from her mother can be experienced at the big French stall at Formland Autumn 2009 in Fairs MCH Herning.

The enamel technique that Christine Cheron takes advantage of respects the older generations of knowledge and the old crafts, and is transferred today to both traditional and modern expressions of enamel.

Christine Cheron creations are a blend of tradition and modernity. Her company was also awarded EPV Labelle, Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant – “The activity of living heritage”, last year.

We perform gråtonede miniatures and miniatures in the ‘White Limoges’, which, among other things are used in jewels and jewelry arts. Several of our enamel jewelry are framed with silver or gold and can be sold directly in jewelry stores. Other enamel pieces are sold without casing to jewelry designers or artists, which even provide a framework for their own creations. We also manufacture jewelry and enameled pieces, which can be fitted by a gold and silversmith as his own creation. We also make toasts, figurative paintings, etc., “says Christine Cheron, who has exhibited her enamel-jewelry and miniatures at the Maison du Limousin (Limousinhuset) in Paris, Maison de l’Email (Enamel pavilion) in her home town of Limoges, and in Rostov Veliky in Russia.

A total of seven design firms from the Limousin region are exhibiting at the French stall, organized by the Danish / French company Abildgaard consult Ltd, whose director, Pia Abildgaard, is Danish.

Birgitte Balslev-Olesen and Pia Mouritsen are both very interested in unique designs. They also have years of passion for Africa, where they both lived for a number of years. That is the reason why they started the company Kabila trade, whose foundation in all simplicity is to import and sell African products.

With their experience, selecting the best African-quality products, they seem to have a natural interaction with elements of the Scandinavian design tradition.

Most products from Kabila trademarks are designed and manufactured by local entrepreneurs. It does work especially for women, with personal income increasing their economic independence and self-esteem. Women’s income also makes it possible to improve their children’s schooling and to improve living conditions in general for the family.

The two entrepreneurial women are using Formland Autumn 2009 MCH Herning Fairs to introduce Kabila trade and a range of unique African products, which are based in Roskilde markets.

Among the products are:
Star Trade – unique bags and baskets made from sisalplanten. Bags in different colors and patterns with beads of bone and hanke in leather.
Taste of Turkana – baskets made by Turkana women from northern Kenya. The material is leaves from Doumer-palm. Baskets have lids and can being used as a dig.
The Ark – custom-made pillows for the big Turkana basket and bags in three different sizes, all manufactured by koskind / leather.
Banana box – handmade angels in natural materials kalabasskåle and napkin rings, both with black and white patterns.
Products in soapstone – round dishes, large saltæg, large and small salt and small stylistic cat figurines in white, yellow and pink colors.
Le Collane di BETTA – “wild” jewelry, designed and manufactured in Kenya, particularly metal, horn, bone, glass, leather and fabric.
Mario Designs – unique jewelry designed by the German jewelry designer Marie Rose and made of mussel shell, bone / bone, horn, brass and coral.
Blue Hour – hand woven råsilkeduge simple, geometric embroidery, designed and manufactured by the Belgian textile designer Mia Geyser.
Paola Spataro – Italian design shawl produced in Kenya. The material is a blend of silk and jute / flax, and shawls with sleeve on one side.

In Pernille Bülow Jewelry you see a combination of Ghana and Denmark and a new unique product arises. The traditional handmade Ghanaian glass beads made of recycled glass from cars, bottles, etc. meets the Bornholm glass artist Pernille Bülow’s who has Scandinavian’s clean graphic design.

The beads are unique and made nowhere else in the world – and they are not factory produced. Pearl Producers are generally among the poorest groups in Ghana. Pernille Bülow Jewelry works with single mothers who are the most vulnerable group.

But through Pernille Bülow Jewelry women’s handicrafts are now coming out to the western world, and women learn to target their products for the Western market. This means that they can actually live by their work, send their children to school and more than just dream about even building their own house. It must be something about the unique interaction between aesthetics and function that is summarized in the concept of PURE as it is chosen as the booth theme for Formland Autumn 2009, when the jewelry is presented.

Pernille Bülow’s unique, handmade, Danish-designed and fair trade-produced jewelry is the way to succeed in a new era. We now make greater and greater demands for both past products and also their future prospects. It is part of the development cooperation that Pernille Bülow Jewelry teaches them about the western distribution mechanisms, requirements, etc. and teaches them how to conduct themselves in this new potential market.

At the stand you can meet Rachel (No. 36), one of Pernille Bülow Jewelry’s four permanent employees who have been involved from the start. She is an experienced pearl producer, does quality checks, is a bomb of energy and humor, a mother of five adult children – and quite fantastic.

You can also meet Agnes, the company’s administrator. She has only been employed for six years but is already irreplaceable. A wise, sweet and lovely girl.

Pernille Bülow writes: I have always been honest about jewelry production. Fair trade for me should not be charity but business. Otherwise, I do not think it wise and durable enough. Through our cooperation we equip women to stand on their own feet and run their own small businesses.

It is the most amazing motivation to see these women grow in their work, develop, and be proud of their uniqueness, it is obviously a huge bonus. And without it I would never have reached as far as we have now. It is hard work with the unthinkable, many detours to get a fair trade co-operation like this to succeed. I have to visit Ghana two to four times a year to teach them new designs and quality, etc. The close cooperation is a necessity. A fair trade project cannot be dealt with consultation from time to time. One is simply obliged to be part of the project itself.

We must also remember that collaboration is a win-win situation. The women earn more money, while I have been given access to some unique beads that are simply not made elsewhere.

Georg Jensen goes back to its roots with stunning new REGITZE collection

REGITZE, the beautiful new icon collection from long-time Georg Jensen collaborator Regitze Overgaard, sees the world-renowned jewellery brand  reconnecting with its origins as a manufacturer of exquisitely crafted silver jewellery.

The soft, organic shapes of the pieces in the REGITZE collection were inspired by the designer’s visit to the Miro Museum in Barcelona. Regitze found herself drawn to one sculpture in particular and its pleasing fusion of shapes. These are expertly reinterpreted in many of the collection’s pieces. The collection comprises bracelets, necklaces, rings, earrings and pendants. All in sterling silver and fashioned in line with Georg Jensen’s uncompromising pursuit of flawless quality and unique design. Regitze says the collection is her most personally satisfying yet. She adds: “Never before have I created a jewellery collection that contains so much of myself. The goldsmiths at Georg Jensen have encapsulated the precise look I dreamed of when I drew the first sketches.”

The designer concludes: “I think the collection’s raw, simple look is what really defines it. For me it goes without saying that jewellery should be able to move on the body so you feel a sense of freedom. Wearing jewellery should feel like a natural part of one’s clothing.”

About Georg Jensen

Georg Jensen was founded in Denmark in 1904 and now has over 100 shops in 12 countries. Georg Jensen began as a silversmith workshop that created exclusive hollow-ware and jewellery in silver. Today it carries a broad range of jewellery, watches, cutlery and hollow-ware products in gold, silver, platinum and diamonds. Its clean, elegant, Scandinavian style of design is appreciated by millions of people around the world and is often cited as one of Denmark’s most recognised brands.

About Regitze Overgaard

Regitze Overgaard began training as a goldsmith in 1970 and graduated from Kunsthåndværkerskolen in Copenhagen in 1976. She has collaborated with Georg Jensen Silversmiths since 1987 and has participated in exhibitions throughout the world.

Since its introduction in 2000, Georg Jensen’s iconic FUSION range of rings has filled a unique niche in the jewellery market, appealing to sophisticated, design-conscious women who value the ability to give their jewellery a genuinely distinctive appearance. Now, Georg Jensen

introduces its most ambitious FUSION collection yet, expanding the line for the first time to include a range of bangles, rings with black diamonds, pendants and earrings.

The 2009 FUSION collection marks a new chapter in the story of this most unique of jewellery collections. But while the collection may have grown, the single-minded commitment to understated elegance and uncompromising craftsmanship that has consistently characterised the FUSION collection remains firmly in evidence.

The collection’s new centrepiece – the bangle – a beautiful and beguilingly simple piece in 18-carat gold, encapsulates this sense of focus. With its simple shape enhanced by a dynamic, vibrant design, the bangle bears all the distinctive hallmarks of the FUSION ring design: timeless, unfussy and immediately arresting.

“The FUSION ring has been one of our most successful jewellery collections since the very launch and throughout the years, many of our customers have asked why we didn’t extend this truly unique concept across more products” Charlotte Juhl, Business Manager for Jewellery at Georg Jensen says. “The FUSION ring concept expressed a completely new way of thinking in modern jewellery when it was launched in 2000. It is based on the characteristic of individual gold units combined in several ways to allow the creation of a personal piece of jewellery. Even though the consumers for technical reasons cannot create their own bangle or earpiece, we have maintained the very essence of this concept in our new line extensions, combining separate pieces which create a unique piece of jewellery. Within both bangles, pendants and earpieces there will be a number of variants to choose from, allowing our customers to create their own, individual look”. Charlotte Juhl continues.

All the pieces in the 2009 collection are available in a number of variations, and as with all previous FUSION collections, every item is available in a wide array of finishes.

The Danish singer/songwriter Peter Sommer has collaborated with Danish jewelry design company Pilgrim. You buy this nice peace of jewelry for men and inside you find a code, so you can download Peter Sommer’s latest album. Exists in only 500 signed copies. Cool thinking and nice design. 

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