Fashion & Jewellery Design/2006/17 min/Reel № 06.001
ByChris de Beer
Chris de Beer on designing jewellery with a cultural inspiration
Entrenching Itself on the International Design Calendar/Recorded 2006
A close reading, kept within reach.
Chris de Beer takes fashion & jewellery design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in South Africa in 2006, the conversation is grounded in Chris's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Chris de Beer designs jewellery that reflects the traditional colours and patterns of Zulu culture.
About the speaker
Chris de Beer
Durban/South Africa
Chris de Beer is a jewellery designer and teacher.
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