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The Corner Piece by Ligia Dias for Novembre issue 15

DESIGNER LIAGA DIAS
WORDS Julien Fronsacq

As a designer, Ligia Dias addresses the relationships between fashion, design and art. For this occurrence of The Corner Piece, she set the following editorial rules: to invite friends whether cultural producer or not — to shoot an object in a corner, either jewellery or any fetish artefact. The corner is made of re-entrant angles, a place where three sides or edges meet. Multiple choices were possible for the object but it had to define the relationship the guest has with jewellery. The answers are numerous and varied. In some cases it aligns with the guest’s professional practices. Sometimes personal and public practices are implicated. While others share a very personal or familial treasure, and some their own production. Since the renowned suprematists such as Malevich and Tatlin, the corner has been a crucial stage for modern art. More recently, ambiguous corner pieces by Fred Sandback and Robert Smithson allude to illusionist space through the concrete deduction of architecture. Imagine all the pages in this project standing next to one another: they set a mock-up of a polygon-shape exhibition space. They also stage the transformation from plane to space, the use of object and the construction of self.

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LEFT Florence Tétier, creative director, Paris, Florence Tétier Bijoux for Charlotte Knowles F/W 2019, photography by Kimberley Coussée
RIGHT Ting Gong, master student, challenging Jewellery program by Bless, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam “My own broken bracelet made out from horn.”

Sandrine Merle, Jewellery specialist, Paris, Personal jewellery: “PACS” ring 60’s, gold, diamonds, crystal rock Godronné technique photography by Benoit Pailley

Lubin Dias Fronsacq, Child, Geneva, Personal collection of semi-precious, stones

Bérenger Pelc, Fashion Editor, Paris, “Little heap of phosphoresent, bracelet I made. I wish Nancy Cunard would wear it if she had lived deep under the ocean.”

LEFT Cyril Rahon Buying and merchandising director, Paris MAX Moebius cuff by Ligia Dias RIGHT Charlotte Chesnais, Jewellery designer, Paris Bond bracelet

LEFT Dorothee Perret, Editor & Publisher, Paris, Personal jewellery RIGHT Raquel Dias, Artist, Lausanne, Personal jewellery: Bronze MAX Moebius, ring & FRANZ, earring by Ligia Dias

Yoon Ambush, designer, Tokyo, Ambush, S/S 2020

Fabienne Stephan, Curator, Geneva, FRANZ earring, by Ligia Dias Photography by Danielle Reuther

FROM LEFT TO RIGHTS ylvie Auvray, Artist, Paris, Bronze, gold and
silver painted rings

Anne Dressen, Curator, Paris, Personal jewellery, by Betony Vernon,
Ligia Dias, Sylvie, Auvray, Sylvie Auvray, in collaboration with, Lee SD, Costanza, Paris & Mended Veil, Photography by Shahryar Nashata

Andra Dumitrascu, Designer, Berlin, “The first jewellery I designed myself for myself, and the first jewellery my family designed for me.”

FROM LEFT TO RIGHTS ylvie Auvray, Artist, Paris, Bronze, gold and silver painted rings Anne Dressen, Curator, Paris, Personal jewellery, by Betony Vernon, Ligia Dias, Sylvie, Auvray, Sylvie Auvray, in collaboration with, Lee SD, Costanza, Paris & Mended Veil, Photography by Shahryar Nashata Andra Dumitrascu, Designer, Berlin, “The first jewellery I designed myself for myself, and the first jewellery my family designed for me.”

Isabelle Cornaro, Artist, Paris, Personal jewellery by Ligia Dias

Lydia Rodrigues, Owner of LRC, New York, Lubin, 2018, plastic, semi-precious, stones, pearl

Donna Huanca, Artist, Berlin, Obsidian Ladder Scent,
2019, Smell of wet Palo, Santo, Vetiver, Cedarwood, Cade,
Olibanum, Java, Birch, Tar & secrets, 100% of proceeds, go to Trans Wellness, Center, Reach LA, and East LA Women’s Center.

Mai-Thu Perret, Artist, Geneva, Everyday jewellery

Lydia Rodrigues, Owner of LRC, New York, Lubin, 2018, plastic, semi-precious, stones, pearl Donna Huanca, Artist, Berlin, Obsidian Ladder Scent, 2019, Smell of wet Palo, Santo, Vetiver, Cedarwood, Cade, Olibanum, Java, Birch, Tar & secrets, 100% of proceeds, go to Trans Wellness, Center, Reach LA, and East LA Women’s Center. Mai-Thu Perret, Artist, Geneva, Everyday jewellery

Ligia Dias, Designer, Geneva, Personal jewellery by Cartier, Sonia Boyajian & Ligia Dias, with corner artwork by Dan Flavin

Lionel Bovier, Museum director, Geneva, Hommage to Isabelle Cornaro, 2019

Laurie Simmons, Artist, New York, Mask with mask in corner, 2019, Personal earring by Ligia Dias; Jeanne-Salomé Rochat, Creative director, Basel, Personal project by Florence Tétier, Bijoux, earring, forgotten in the Paris subway right after the photo; Scott King, Artist, London, Better Lives, 2019; John Armleder, Artist, Geneva, Oh! et puis oui!, 2019, Les Trois Rois, letterhead; Linus Ricard; Director and photographer, Paris “It is an official Swedish identity tag which has been with me since I was born. It’s the only piece of jewellery I ever had, a kind of fetish object.”; Elise By Olsen, Editor, Publisher & Curator, Oslo, Earring by Michael Olestad, photography by Maria Pasenau; Marilyn Minter, Artist, New York “My most important jewellery: tattoos of my engagement and wedding rings, with planned Parenthood pins and my Resist t-shirt.”; Marta Costa Reis, Jewellery designer, Lisbon, Untitled, Neolithic, collection, 2017; Ligia Dias, Designer, Geneva, Personal jewellery by Cartier, Sonia, Boyajian & Ligia Dias, with corner artwork by Dan Flavin, Pierre Banchereau, Floral designer, Paris, Personal jewellery, sculpture by Giacomo, Balla, made in wood, in the 1920s, edited in, stainless steel in the1960s by Dino Gavina

Fiona Alison Duncan, Writer, New York, Family jewel

Holly Blakey, Choreographer, London “My grandmother’s cross, who passed away just before my son was born.”

Julien Fronsacq, Chief curator, Geneva, Everyday jewellery by Ligia Dias

Michael Hemy, Photographer, London, Robert Woods; Medusa; Tate archives photograph by Marino Marini, 1959; spyhole plugs; sculpture by Aaron, Angel Photography by Michael Hemy, Styling by Lune Kuipers, Set by Alicia Howitt Thank you to Aaron, Angel x Troy town Art Pottery Serge Carreira, Luxury & Fashion, Specialist, Paris, Portuguese pendant, 17th century, personal collection

Sonia Boyajian, Jewellery designer, Los Angeles, Feminist cuff