Squama
Squama Body Jewelry by Mehrnaz Zarrin Hadid is a winner of the 2025 Golden A' Design Award in Jewelry Design.
Squama is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs.
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The Squama is part of the Kerf Collection, a series that treats the body as a shifting landscape. Through precise kerf cuts, the silver gains fluidity, bending effortlessly to follow the body's natural topography. Its undulating surface catches and disperses light, creating a luminous gradient that shifts with movement. The interplay of incandescent highlights and satin-finished shadows accentuates the body's form, turning reflection into a living expression of light. The name Squama evokes an allusion to overlapping layers of plates, reflecting light in intricate patterns.
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Squama by Mehrnaz Zarrin Hadid
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Jewelry Design Award Winner in 2025.
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Squama Body Jewelry
Squama is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Squama is expected to be a praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Squama creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Mehrnaz Zarrin Hadid
Mehrnaz Zarrin Hadid is an architect and designer whose work spans multiple scales—from jewelry and product design to furniture and large architectural projects. She leads and directs design across both independent and collaborative initiatives, with a focus on material exploration, spatial relationships, and interwoven, iterative processes. Her approach treats design as an evolving practice that challenges conventions, questions norms, and embraces the unpredictable. Alongside her design work, Mehrnaz co-teaches design studios and has contributed to the translation of key texts on children’s architectural education, reflecting an ongoing commitment to critical engagement and interdisciplinary dialogue within the field.
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Mehrnaz Zarrin Hadid
Mehrnaz Zarrin Hadid's design philosophy emphasizes the intrinsic role of technique as a generative tool, highlighting the interconnectedness of technique, design, and materials. With a strong foundation in architecture, her approach seamlessly integrates experimental and technical dimensions. She aims to harmonize aesthetic concepts with technical principles and material properties, recognizing their interdependence as crucial for exploration. In her view, these elements operate as interconnected processes rather than isolated or fragmented aspects of design. Aesthetics, in her perspective, evolve beyond mere ornamentation—often regarded as an afterthought—and become fundamental to both the integrity of technique and the expression of design as an authentic aesthetic experience. Her background in architecture and design enables her to weave architectural thinking into the design process.
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