DESIGN NAME: Golden Safari Design
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Gold decoration
INSPIRATION: The glass is transparent and the gold leaf leaving light passing through it, we wanted to succeed creating a unique setting through two fragile materials that are not supposed to get married easily together to make a uniqueness that seems be in symbiosis. We thought we could create the perfect unique product through its research, its details, its luxurious materials and the fact that we do these creations by hand. This Design is our specialization in gilding with gold leaf on glass, in its drawing and in its unique manufacturing technique.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Our design is handmade. We present our design especially on bottles of Champagne, which symbolize the ideal synonym for our design: refinement and elegance.
Laying gold leaf is made of a meticulous way to reach perfection is the reason why each bottle is unique. For this Design, we choose the safari theme because, there is a beauty in the skins of these animals, both in symmetry and in the disorder. With our technique we are looking for the same aspect, with the beauty of gold and the disorder with the fragility of the texture of gold leaf.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The goal of our design is to transform a simple glass bottle to a unique art conception. There is no interaction with our design, but the simple view of it make the understanding of the work. We wish that the result of our work will come from the captivation of the customers eyes.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: We started to try this project in december 2014 in Paris, we finished to invent our techniques of gilding in July 2015. In August 2015, we have created the 5 bottles of Golden Safari Design.
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: First, we draw the design on paper, then we use a stencil to mark what we wish to have in gold and what we want to leave empty. To fit the gold on the glass, we invented a special miction for this design, usually, with a simple miction the gold leaf that we use, a 22,5 carats, will be dull, but for this design we wish to had a massif gold aspect. Finally, we begin the hand-crating of the gold leaves, one by one. We use marten, brush, scalpel, badger, gilding knife to make this design.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: We worked our design on five 75cl Champagne bottles. The 75 cl bottle is about 20 to 30 cm height and 8cm for the width and the depth. The difficulty to work on Champagne bottle is that their always with curves, in glass and the bottle is full of Champagne inside, so we had to be careful, we must work in a un-hot room to preserve the quality of the Champagne. To decorate one bottle, we must work on it on 5 days ( we have to seperate some steps by time), and there is about 15 to 20 hours of work on each one.
TAGS: Gold, luxury, handmade, Champagne, design, gilding, glass
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The first research was to draw perfectly the final pictures that we wished, and how we could make the gilding on a Full Champagne Bottle with these drawings. The second aspect of our research was to find how to change the transparency of glass and the gold leaf into an opaque aspect where the gold will take the advantage against the black/Green contrast of the glass. The third research was about getting a massif gold aspect technique instead of a dull gold leaf aspect and how to consolidate it.
CHALLENGE: Because of the propriety of the materials, we had to think about a technique that will not let the light going through the glass and the gold. We had read many ancients books about the light going through the gold, but no technique has been realised before, and certainly not on glass. So we had tried many different ways and materials to find the best final rendering. However, we also need that the final rendering we wished still fit on glass and stay solid because gold leaf is very fragile.
ADDED DATE: 2016-02-15 14:33:46
TEAM MEMBERS (2) : Creative Director and Designer : Sammy Ben Romdan and Creative Director and Gilder : Morgan Le Roux
IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1 : Photographer and Illustrator, Créatelier Gamme Luxe, 2015
Image #2 : Photographer and Illustrator, Créatelier Gamme Luxe, 2015
Image #3 : Photographer and Illustrator, Créatelier Gamme Luxe, 2015
Image #4 : Photographer and Illustrator, Créatelier Gamme Luxe, 2015
Image #5 : Photographer and Illustrator, Créatelier Gamme Luxe, 2015
Video Credits: BKM Production, 2015
Music Credits: BKM Production, 2015
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