Cultured Manners 2016
Octave Vandeweghe BE
quartz, beryl, citrine, cultivated citrine, malachite
purchase from the designer via Valerie Traan, 2018
Octave Vandeweghe studied jewellery design and silversmithing. During a residency at the Hochschule Trier in the German town of Idar-Oberstein, the European Mecca for precious stones, he became fascinated by the beauty of natural gemstones and how a designer can process them. For Cultured Manners, a project in which he explores how you can go from a rough stone to a set of cutlery, he works with both natural stones and synthetic, laboratory-grown minerals. By leaving synthetic stones unprocessed and by cutting and polishing natural stones, he plays subtly with the distinction between primitive and cultured. He likes to preserve the growth lines and imperfections of precious stones, but also the trace of the polishing wheel, which could almost pass for a growth line.
SOURCES
Marc Holthof via www.valerietraan.be;
dank aan Octave Vandeweghe.