SEA URCHIN / TIEPIN
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A customized jewel for Tim Hunt, biochemist and Nobel Prize winner, as a present as invited speaker at Rigi Workshop 2013.
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Dimensions / XYZ
50 x 44,5 x 17 mm
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Technology
Lost wax casting
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Material
Sterling silver / Brushed
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Credits
Inspirational photo: Sue Hammond 2013.
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Concept
A customized jewel inspired on his research on the cell division of sea urchins, in particular, Arbacia punctulata, who described and named Lammarck in 1816.
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Design
We thought in a tiepin jewel to apply the created sea urchin with all their minimum details like in nature, and at same time we develop a new clip system based on an outer circle to fix the sea urchin with an inner tangent circle.
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Process
We explode the lost wax casting technique to reproduce exactly the 3D created details of sea urchin, before casting in silver. This process is suitable for us to get a great level of fidelity.