• Silvana Annicchiarico, director of the Triennale Design Museum;
• Andrea Branzi, architect and designer;
• Alba Cappellieri, Professor of Jewellery Design, Milan Polytechnic;
• Franco Cologni, Managing Director of Financière Richemont International SA
• Beatrice Salmon, director of the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris.  

The launch of the new CHP collection 'Body Stories' at Maison&Object in Paris last week was a big succes. Although the collection was revealed only partially, amongst which the well awaited leather Bone Structures necklace by Campana Brothers, the likes of people like Cristina Morozzi flocked by to get their glimpse and share of the collection. Read here what Abitare wrote about it. Soon more 'Bodystories'...

From 3 September till 7 September 2010 CHP will present at Maison&Objet Paris. You will find CHP in the new hall nr. 7 of the exhibition parc of Paris-Nord Villepinte, that will be inaugurated during the opening of M&O. For more information click here

The next destination of CHP's travelling exhibition 'Designers on Jewellery/ Twelve years of jewellery production by Chi ha paura...?' will be the SM-'s ('s Hertogenbosch, NL). After the SFMCD it will be on show at SM-'s from 2 October 2010 untill 9 January 2011. 

At the occasion of the exhibition 'Designers on Jewellery/ Twelve years of jewellery production by Chi ha paura...?' at the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, Gijs Bakker will give a lecture:
Saturday, January 16, 4 PM – 6 PM
Marriott Hotel Union Square, 480 Sutter Street (near SFMC+D)
Free to members of SFMC+D, $20 for non-members, $10 for students with valid I.D.
For more information check www.sfmcd.org email to asimpson@sfmcd.org / mkadoyama@earthlink.net

The first dates are known for the itinerary of the travelling exhibition 'Designers on Jewellery/ Twelve years of jewellery production by Chi ha paura...?' It will run at the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design from 15 January 2010 till 26 May 2010 www.sfmcd.org 

Chi ha paura...? is very happy and proud to announce that the travelling retrospective exhibition 'Designers on Jewellery/ Twelve years of jewellery production by Chi ha paura...?'  will start at San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design in January 2010. More information soon to follow.

Lecture by Gijs Bakker
Monday, February 23rd, 18:30
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, USA

Gijs Bakker will give an overview of his work as an independent jewellery and product designer, as an educator at Design Academy Eindhoven, and as co-director of Droog since 1993 to the present.

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/

Lecture by Gijs Bakker
Wednesday, March 4th, 19:00
California College of the Arts
Design and Craft Lecture Series Spring 2009

Since the beginning of Gijs Bakker’s career in 1965, Bakker has sought to free himself from the heavy tradition of the jewellery field, seeking independence both artistically and economically. Without clients and commissions, Bakker could experiment, giving full attention to the concept, and become radical. Bakker was able to reach this freedom by having two directions in his career – experimental jewellery and industrial design.

The natural outcome was a conceptual approach. Bakker developed his own criteria for his work, asking: what is the meaning?, what does it say in the political and social context of today?, and, who is it for?

The limitations within craft, being oriented towards material and technique, do not align with Bakker’s attitude. For Bakker, it is always the concept which dictates the material and the technique to visualize the concept in the most ideal way, based on his subjective opinion, of course.
San Francisco campus, Timken Lecture Hall
1111 Eighth Street (at 16th and Wisconsin)

All lectures are free and open to the public.

Call 415.703.9563 or visit www.cca.edu/calendar to confirm dates and times.
 
Selected lectures are available at iTunes U: www.cca.edu/itunesu.
 
CCA’s new college-wide Design and Craft Lecture Series brings artists, designers, and theoreticians from around the world to lecture and participate in academic life on campus. Its founding curator is Professor Donald Fortescue, chair of the Furniture Program.
 
The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
 

Founder of CHP...? Gijs Bakker will travelling around the world for lectures and workshops. Meet him ...

... at the School of Art & Design, Michigan, USA on 27 September 2007, 17.00 hours. www.art-design.umich.edu.

... on 13 October in Bangkok at Creativity Unfold. More information at www.tcdc.or.th.

... in Australia at the Design Institute of Australia in Adelaide on 19 October. Gijs will continue his lecture in Perth as well. www.design.org.au.

From 7 September 2007 until 13 January 2008 a selection of Van Leersum's jewellery Broken Lines will be on show at the SM's in Den Bosch. Check www.sm-s.nl for address details and opening hours.

For less than 6 euro you will have your own design tattoo from Tord Boontje. You can decide yourself which part of the Cut Here Tattoo you would like to wear and where to wear. Not only an original present to give but also exotic to wear to the beach or to a party. Photography by Angela Moore.

PRESS RELEASE

During the Salone del Mobile in Milan (18-22 April 2007), the new Chi ha paura…? project ‘Rituals’ will be shown in Labo.Art, via Maroncelli, 14, Milan, daily from 11.00-21.00 hours.

Rituals
A piece of jewellery is a small object that can be of great significance to a person. People and jewellery are inseparable from each other: jewellery having a human scale, humans putting a meaning on jewellery.
A piece of jewellery is not merely a decorative ornament; it usually has a meaning, which might be personal, because it marks an event, a celebration, a loss or an identity. These meanings can also be universal, recognisable in society.
In industrial and secular society rituals have lost their meaning: initial rites de passage are not known to us anymore, death and funeral rituals have become standardised. Yet, jewellery is part of a familiar ritual such as marriage, and jewellery is present in military and other official decorations. What has happened to the human and social rituals?
Is it possible to develop new rituals in modern life? Does it already exist, without us really recognizing it – in group identities, life styles? And what kind of role can contemporary jewellery play in rituals?

The theme ‘Rituals’ inspired 14 international designers to design reproducible jewellery of an outspoken character, offering fresh and humanistic views on rituals.
Bless designed and made a necklace Winterjewellery, soft and comfortable as a scarf, referring to knitting as a ritual of hominess.
Chris Kabel designed Fladder, a decorative fan which will determine the streets more and more now our summers lengthen and become hotter, and power failure could prove to be a regular recurring phenomenon.
Heartbreak, designed by Tjep, is a little golden hammer and ceramic heart, coated with rubber on the inside. Thus the broken heart expresses the state you are in, while the act of smashing can be felt as a relief.
Frédéric Braham’s brooch Bonbons très Bons are ‘sweets’ which refer to modern life which without pills is almost unimaginable for most people: a pill for some ailment or other and for every kind of party
The Greeting Necklace and Peace Ring of Gijs Bakker investigate new ways of greeting are in our multicultural society a way for young people to show to which group you belong or wish to belong.
Katja Prins’ Bound by Blood brings together and mixes various prayer-necklaces, which only differ in details, a contemporary blood red jewel is created referring to our mutual bond as well as to the blood shed in the name of a religion.
The Wishbone necklace, designed by Michael Leung, is made of porcelain and together with a friend can be broken in half.
In the old days, Catholic children used to have a Madonna medallion pinned on every morning, significant little symbols for protection and remembrance. An old lost ritual that has been revived by Ruudt Peters in his design, Picture Medaillon.
The Kawari Dama by Susan Pietzsch is a string of beads made from coloured sugar with lover beads inside. It is intended for pleasure derived from a private ritual, the enjoyment of slowly sucking the beads and the unexpected find of a concealed preciousness.
Earth Ring ritualizes our sense of place. Warwick Freeman gives back the bond with the earth beneath our feet.
Last the Blast, designed by Susan Cohn, is a container designed to survive bomb explosions and other disasters. The two labels can be used for personal details as a way of identification, or for a personal message addressed to the next of kin.
Lin Cheung’s Friend or Foe? is a long tape measure of transparent PVC with red imprint, to be worn as a necklace. Instead of inches designations are given to assess the other person’s nature: friend or foe?
Abschiedsfest from Constanze Schreiber are a bracelet and ring, which may put a special meaning on the mourning ritual.
Wedding Pills, designed by Ted Noten, are golden alternative wedding rings with a traditional inscription with the name of the loved one and the marriage date. They can be taken with a glass of vodka or other beverage. Because of the intimate process these pills undergo a fundamental question is laid bare: are we going to search for it or not, it may provoke the first marriage crisis. And with whom it agrees, the ritual can be repeated after each crisis – a nice reconciliation ritual.

The photography is by Wouter van der Brink and Brecht Duijf. ‘Rituals’ has been made possible thanks to SM’s (Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch) and the Mondriaan foundation, Amsterdam.

From 5 till 8 March Gijs Bakker will speak at the Tasmeem Doha 2007 Design Conference, Qatar, Doha. http://www.tasmeemdoha.info/

During the Architecture and Design Forum, Cevisama, in Valencia, Spain jewellery designer and founder of Chi ha paura...? Gijs Bakker will give a lecture on 9 February 2007. For more information go to http://cevisama.feriavalencia.com/

From 14 December until 13 January 2007 Galerie Sofie Lachaert in Ghent, Belgium presents the collection of Chi ha paura...?. Innovative, trendy, tempting and wearable jewellery from well-known, but also starting designers are on display.

Last year well-known Viennese artist Peter Skubic celebrated his seventieth birthday with a series of exhibitions in several German and Austrian galleries and museums. This same year, in Hanau, he was awarded the Association for Goldsmiths Art-Golden Ring of Honour. The ring has been presented since 1933 to internationally recognised, highly regarded gold and silversmiths from Germany and other countries.

Peter Skubic's ring design 'Hello', which he designed for CHP is to be taken lightly and shows very well the scabrous, provocative side of his work, which has been as characteristic throughout the years, as his more ordered and constructed side.

The publications Peter Skubic Between Jewellery (Arnoldsche 2001. ISBN 3-89790-156-0) and Peter Skubic Spiegelverkehrt ( Munchen, Verlag Marianne Schliwinski, Jurgen Eickhoff, 2005. ISBN 3-924494-30-4)-both still available-focus on the phenomenon Skubic.

The exhibition "Peter Skubic-Schmuck"is still to be seen in the Kunstlerhaus in Vienna till January 8, 2006

PRESS RELEASE

During the Salone del Mobile in Milan, April 13-17, 2005, the new Chi ha paura…? project ‘What’s Luxury’ will be shown in the Via Giannone 4, Milan, daily from 11 am – 9 pm.

In a spectacular setting, referring to historical luxuries, contemporary interpretations of luxury by international designers will be shown as samples of topical jewellery.
The theme ‘what is luxury?’ inspired 17 international designers to design reproducible jewellery of an outspoken character, offering fresh and humanistic views on modern wo/man’s desire for luxuries. The jewellery doesn’t necessarily refer to costly, expensive, extraordinary and rare commodities, in stead they can have a temporary character that just pleases the senses or mind for a moment.

The layer brooch Bloom Bloom  by Frank Tjepkema (NL) shows the ephemeral character of luxury, transient like a beautiful  flower.
Black Widow: Studio Job (NL) transformed a common symbol, the black spider, into a lush 100% contemporary jewel.
Intimate Luxury: For Ineke Hans (NL) luxury may be confined to the temporary imprint that a golden ring with a hidden message leaves on your finger.
A dragon surrounded by a rose design is the format for Cut Here, a pink coloured temporary tattoo by Tord Boontje (NL), which leaves the user to decide which part to cut and wear.
With the Infinite Border by Matali Crasset (F) any shirt can be transformed into something special, by attaching a line of pure 24-carat gold around a collar or band.
Manga: Fashion designer Connie Groenewegen (NL) designed a clip as a open mouth with a golden teeth, which can be used to drape a beautiful fabric.
The classical looking Memory ring, by Wieki Somers (NL) holds a concealed image which will reveal itself when rubbed.
In his ring Real  Gijs Bakker (NL) plays with the concept of real and fake gems.
The Data Jewel of Swiss Christoph Zellweger is a refined ornament of the digital age, constructed with the aid of new technology.
The ornamental Credit brooch by Joris Laarman (NL) could indeed be used as a credit card.
The Big Pearl Ring, Mina Wu (Taiwan), bears a lens in order to magnify a small pearl on the ring – as may happen in our imagination when something important becomes bigger than real.
The wooden bracelet of the Paris/Berlin fashion duo BLESS (Desiree Heiss, Ines Kaag) creates high fashion on the basis of poor material, by precisely hand copying a cheap wristwatch in carved wood through craftspeople in Asia.
The Foamed Gold Nuggets by Chris Kabel (NL) presents a super light necklace composed of large 24-carat gold nuggets.
The gilded chips fork by Ramon Middelkoop (NL) may be worn as a tie-pin  - always ready to upgrade your fast food.
Precious Stones by Manon van Kouswijk (NL) presents a pebble stone pendant of acrylic with a hidden fossil inside.
For the Diamond Brooch  by Marc Monzo (Spain) a traditional ring with diamond has been ‘blown up’ to the size of a brooch.
The Echo, a necklace composed of semi soft silicon earplugs, by Marko Macura (NL) provides the wearer the non materialistic luxury of a break or a pause from all noise surrounding him.

The collection “What’s Luxury” is developed in cooperation with SM’s  (Stedelijk Museum ‘s Hertogenbosch, NL)

The installation is designed by Chi ha paura…? in cooperation with SM’s

The photography is by Rien Bazen NL.

The foundation ‘Chi ha paura…del gioiello contemporaneo?’ (‘Who is afraid…of contemporary jewelry?’) is established in 1996 by Marijke Vallanzasca, Padova and Gijs Bakker, Amsterdam. The foundation has its seat in Amsterdam. During the years ‘Chi ha paura…?’  has created a collection of  conceptual reproducible jewellery by international renowned designers and young unknown talent. ‘Chi ha paura…?’ is represented for the sixth time in Milan, during the Salone del Mobile.
Most of the jewellery is produced by Jan Matthesius.

Sales:
Sales manager: Pauline Barendse, info@chihapaura.com
The permanent collection is online available through: www.chihapaura.com
The collection is sold IN more than 50 shops and galleries worldwide.

Press:
From the first day of the Salone del Mobile Milano 2005, press representatives can download images directly from the website www.chihapaura.com, using a requested password.
For press info: press@chihapaura.com

The Chi ha paura…? Foundation would like to thank the sponsors for their generous support: the Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch and the Mondriaan Foundation