{"id":15681,"date":"2012-02-29T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.amber.com.pl\/bizuteria-musi-wywolywac-emocje-rozmowa-z-emilia-kohut\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:46:42","slug":"jewelry-must-evoke-emotions-conversation-with-emilia-kohut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/aktualnosci\/bizuteria-musi-wywolywac-emocje-rozmowa-z-emilia-kohut\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewellery must evoke emotions - an interview with Emilia Kohut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Young designer, student of the Gda\u0144sk Academy of Fine Arts and winner of 2nd place in a competition Amberif Design Award 2012<\/a>, about the role of jewelry in general and amber in particular. <\/b>
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Jewelry and at the same time a tactile medium \u2013 that is your work awarded in the Amberif Design Award competition. Is this a ring-shaped pendant? <\/b><\/p>\n


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<\/b>The full name of the project is \u201eMade to pleasure. Erotic toy\u201d \u2013 the English name due to the requirements of the competition. My main goal was to show pleasure in its purest form. In the jewelry project, the most important medium is always the aesthetic side, while I wanted to \u201etouch\u201d another, more interesting sphere of touch, the direct contact of the ornament with the recipient. I think that amber \u2013 like no other \u201ematerial\u201d \u2013 inspires such thoughts: it is warm, pleasant, smooth. It is exactly these associations that inspire me and that I wanted to show in this competition project. I think that the photographed piece accurately conveys what I had in mind. Also, the arrangement of the fabric is not random, because in a rather subtle way it evokes associations with a nipple. I don\u2019t know if everyone is able to notice it, but a woman certainly is. Knowing, of course, the title of the project. So the term \u201cring-smeracz\u201d seems to be appropriate. Therefore, n:joy! <\/p>\n

Why do you think the touch sphere is more interesting? And how do you implement it in your projects?<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s more interesting, among other things, because it positions me as a designer in a completely different way of observation. I like when a design has that something that fits in or even contrasts with the body, but it always has a specific effect on the body. After all, jewelry is in direct contact with the skin, so why not play around with that sphere?
I try to ensure that my designs are not just an addition, an ornament \u201eattached\u201d to the user, but convey a certain content and evoke emotions. Sometimes I \u201echew\u201d them, and sometimes I \u201echew\u201d our bodies. For example, one of my \u201echewing\u201d projects is a nipple insert with a very sharp and rather aggressive shape. Just the idea of putting it on a nipple is painful.<\/p>\n

So what should be the modern jewelry? <\/b><\/p>\n

My projects are a reflection of my vision of jewelry, of what it should be and what emotions it should evoke. For me, the added value is to treat jewelry more broadly than just limiting it to a necklace or a ring. I am convinced that sometimes it is worth going further and treating the body as a broad concept of inspiration, observation, and analysis. Trying to design new types of objects for the body seems very daunting to me.
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Your portfolio of student designers includes not only jewelry. Which design field is closest to your heart?  <\/b><\/p>\n

Throughout my studies, I designed objects with very diverse themes \u2013 and not just that \u2013 starting with small 3D forms and ending with visual communication. At the same time, I was constantly searching for my own path and something that would really capture me. The unexpected turn of events was the transition to the jewelry studio, which completely absorbed me. I felt as if I had received a new dose of energy that I so desperately needed. I quickly found my way to designing it and I felt great at it. Designing and making jewelry gives me a lot of satisfaction and joy, it has become the closest thing to all the other fields I have ever worked in. Perhaps that\u2019s because it gives me such freedom and flexibility in design that I so desperately lacked in utilitarian design, fraught with a whole range of limitations? <\/p>\n

Your amber jewelry designs will soon be available to view in an album. \u201eTrend Book 2012+\u201d<\/a> and the exhibition accompanying its premiere. How do young designers perceive this stone?<\/b><\/p>\n

For me, working with amber is very pleasant \u2013 starting with the processing and finishing, to the surprising effects that each \u201edirty lump\u201d brings. Amber is always a surprise, and that inspires me to be creative. However, I treat it like another material, and I want to combine it in an unconventional way with other \u201eunconventional\u201d materials \u2013 this way I don\u2019t set any limits for myself. I have rejected all associations and all knowledge about the possibilities of its use; I have \u201ereset\u201d my mind: I started thinking about it \u201efrom scratch\u201d and treated it as another material from which I want to create something. I am open to the most unconventional combinations. Not so long ago, jewelers shook their heads in contempt, asking, \u201eWhat am I doing with this amber?\u201d They couldn\u2019t accept the idea that I was combining it with resin or corian. I believe that the nobility of amber defends itself by itself, and combining it with artificial materials does nothing to enhance it; it merely shows it in a new light. How do young designers perceive amber and how do they use it in their work? I invite you to the exhibition and to familiarize yourself with the \u201eTrend Book\u201d 2012+\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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