Distinguished artwork world figures had been in attendance to have fun the tenth anniversary of the jewelry home Repossi’s Antifer assortment final evening, at a cocktail get together co-hosted by The Artwork Newspaper. Company starting from the artist Daniel Lismore to the Monetary Instances editor Josh Spero gathered at Toklas restaurant in central London, the place they had been introduced with a brand new collection of artworks created particularly for the event.
The Repossi model, based in 1957 in Turin, Italy, is thought for its minimalist motifs and an strategy to design impressed by artwork, nature and structure. That is mirrored within the Antifer assortment, which options rings created by hand, utilizing the misplaced wax casting method, during which molten steel is poured right into a mould formed by wax. Their motif is recognisable for its protruding peak rising from an in any other case harmonious form, whereas its identify derives from the sheer Antifer cliffs in Normandy, France.
Repossi started marking the Antifer anniversary this summer season, with the launch of 5 new rings, in addition to three different items of high-end jewelry that observe the gathering’s philosophies. Amongst them is necklace with 62 square-cut diamonds set throughout two pendants. The model additionally hosted an exhibition, at Amelie, Maison d’Artwork in Paris, of labor by artists that reinterpreted Antifer’s design by way of mediums resembling sculpture, pictures and prints.
At Toklas, the brand new additions to the gathering had been displayed in glass vitrines within the centre of the room. Tributes had been taken a step additional, too, as Repossi revealed a brand new set of ceramics by the artist Martha Freud made in tribute to Antifer. Freud stated in a press release that she wished to answer the geological origins of the gathering—taking it “again to that unique ‘rock’ formation by working the motif again into ceramics”. She additionally responded to artists referenced by Antifer jewelry such because the American minimalist Donald Judd. The ensuing works, which had been displayed throughout one wall, vary from stacked ring-like candles to a wall work that includes white porcelain painted on black. And a collection of framed gentle sculptures coated in volcanic sand which, when illuminated, flip an alluring gold.
Martha Freud, Examine in Stone, Stacks and Sand or They Tried to Bury Us, They Didn’t Know We Had been Seeds”, 2023, a part of the brand new collection created in response to Antifer assortment
The newly commissioned items struck a chord with visitors, with Lismore saying: “I really like Martha, I really like her concepts and I really like that she’s painted in porcelain, which I’ve by no means seen earlier than. It is actually arduous to work with [as a material]—I do not assume individuals realise.“
Martha went into extra element on the night: “I hold having increasingly concepts of what I wish to do with this assortment: even final evening as I used to be falling asleep. It is so inspiring and [the motif is] such a wonderful form. What I really like about it’s it is a suggestion—the place you are taking it may be loud and glossy nevertheless it will also be fairly discreet and refined.“
Josh Spero, affiliate arts editor on the Monetary Instances, with Martha Freud and Anne de Vergeron, Repossi’s chief govt officer
Photograph: David Owens
Anne de Vergeron, the chief govt officer of Repossi, says: “More often than not, our items draw inspiration from artwork. I am discovering Martha’s remaining works for the primary time now… and I am completely amazed by the variability. What I actually like is the truth that she is utilizing porcelain. It is such a pleasant addition to what we have completed beforehand. It is a fully completely different perspective.”
