Platinum A' Design Award Winner 2023
This visual composition operates within the symbolic traditions of sacred space presentation and luxury object veneration, employing architectural framing strategies that have historically elevated objects from mundane utility to ceremonial significance, the central opalescent vessel with its organic scalloped form and radiating ridges evokes multiple symbolic registers simultaneously, its shell-like profile suggesting the classical scallop associated with pilgrimage, renewal, and the journey motif in both sacred and secular iconographic traditions, while its blossom-like appearance activates associations with natural growth, organic beauty, and the ephemeral perfection of flowering forms that have served as memento mori reminders and celebration of transient beauty throughout decorative arts history, the opalescent translucent material quality suggests preciousness, fragility, and liminal states between opacity and transparency that metaphorically resonate with themes of revelation, mystery, and the veil between material and spiritual realms, the Gothic Revival architectural vocabulary surrounding the vessel carries profound symbolic weight, pointed arches traditionally associated with aspiration, spiritual ascent, and the directing of earthly attention toward transcendent realms, the trefoil and quatrefoil tracery patterns reference theological numerology with the three-lobed trefoil evoking trinitarian symbolism and divine completeness while the four-lobed quatrefoil suggests earthly order, the cardinal directions, and material completeness, the symmetrical bilateral organization along a central vertical axis activates archetypal mandala structures suggesting cosmic order, psychological wholeness, and the centering of consciousness around sacred focal points, the chromatic strategy of saturated violet and magenta hues operates symbolically across multiple cultural frameworks, violet historically associated with royalty, ecclesiastical authority, penitence, and mystical contemplation given its liturgical use during Advent and Lent, while also carrying associations with twilight liminal states between day and night, consciousness and dream, the material and the numinous, the layered architectural frames that progressively surround the central vessel create a visual movement from exterior to interior, profane to sacred, common to precious, echoing the spatial organization of temple architecture where concentric zones of increasing sanctity guide the worshipper or viewer toward the holy of holies, the theatrical lighting that saturates the composition with jewel-like chromatic intensity rather than naturalistic illumination suggests artificial paradise, controlled transcendence, or the constructed nature of sacred atmosphere, the geometric precision and perfect symmetry suggest divine order, mathematical harmony, and the imposition of rational structure upon organic form, the work synthesizes medieval Gothic spiritual vocabulary with Art Nouveau organic naturalism and contemporary digital precision, creating a symbolic field where historical devotional presentation strategies meet modern luxury product staging, the composition invites contemplation of how objects become invested with significance through architectural framing, chromatic atmosphere, and compositional isolation, how the visual languages of sacred reliquary and commercial display share strategies of elevation and atmospheric transformation, and how geometric order and organic form negotiate symbolic meaning across decorative traditions.
Conceptual Calendar for French premium glass manufacture Lalique. Connecting the world of unique handmade glass production by a premium manufacturer and the world that is entirely handmade from paper. To create an amazing imaginary space in which the luxurious world of glass and visual art is combined. Together with perfect printing technology, large format, special effects and surface treatments, they form a breath-taking story that will entertain you all year long.Great attention was paid to every detail and also on extremely precise processing and the top-quality print result.