In Conversation with Ariel Lavian

By: Chas Hoye|In: Canvas Beauty|Last Updated: October 26, 2022

With the theme “Colorful Recovery,” the first Israel Biennale of Contemporary Jewelry will take place November 10–14, 2022. Its organizer and curator, Ariel Lavian, took some time from busy preparations to answer questions about his practice and career. Lavian is not just a respected jewelry maker, but a curator and educator, too. The tireless booster for the field of contemporary jewelry even designed the exhibition space for the upcoming event.

One of the artists selected for the biennial: Joo Hyung Park, Confluence 20-2, 2020, brooch, cherry wood, natural lacquer (ottchil), sterling silver, 140 x 80 x 80 mm, photo: artist

Vicki Mason: Tell us about your training in fashion, jewelry, and conceptual design. What key points from those studies stayed with you and still inform your work and practice?

Ariel Lavian: It seems so long ago, from another time, even though it hasn’t been that long. I have a bachelor’s degree in jewelry and fashion and a master’s in conceptual design (that is, about design). Both are from Bezalel. During my master’s degree, I learned the importance of research and in-depth study, either before a project or when learning a new technique.

But I feel that my professional practice development directly results from my totality. My wife tells me I don’t know when to stop or take a break. I work all the time. (Although saying “work” diminishes the meaning for me because it’s not something I have to do. It’s who I am.) You

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By: Chas Hoye|In: Believe Beauty|Last Updated: July 8, 2021

Sustainable elegance publish-COVID wants packaging, conversation and supply chain concentration say gurus

But ratcheted-up recycling, reuse and round devices, joined-up communications and products innovation (wood any person?) are supplying lots of hope.

“Wood is normal by definition. It is refillable,” claimed Pierre-Antoine Henry, head of types at Spanish splendor packaging specialist Quadpack, at final month’s WeCosmoprof International’s Sustainability, For Now and Up coming CosmoTalks webinar elegantly moderated by CosmeticsDesign-Europe editor, Kacey Culliney.

“Of course, if you refill, it means you can go for packaging that you carry much more time, love and sturdy elements to for the reason that you are keeping the original pack. So, it could open up a lot of creative imagination because you can spend a little bit far more income in the original packaging,” Henry stated in the course of the qualified panel debate.

Reusable packaging, he claimed, provided the golden route to squander reduction.

“The much more you reuse, you have the influence on the surroundings of a one-use. This, for me, is the aspiration. Begin from the desire and do the job backwards.”

Stepping up to satisfy the new green client

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-licensed wooden task is just one of lots of firms like Quadpack are engaged in to push the sort of transform elegance item customers are demanding.

“Consumers have been demanding safe items for several years but now with the COVID predicament they are pushing for much more sustainable goods,” said Pedro Perez, common manager of Spanish company Laboratorios Maverick.

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed consumers to think more carefully about beauty purchases [Getty Images] — The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed

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