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| Ilka Suppanen Collar and Cuff |
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Product: bracelet/necklace Material: fluorescent 3M Scotchlite film and gilding Dimensions: 15 x 4 cm/7 x 6.5 cm Prototype development: Tiny Leeuwenkamp; Vakschool Schoonhoven: Persis van Schaik |
IIKKA SUPPANEN - COLLAR AND CUFF 'In the last century, we moved out of our villages where everyone knew the social class to which they belonged, and who was the blacksmith's son or the farmer's daughter. Nowadays, most of us live in cities, where no one knows where you come from or what you're like. Identity has to be created over and over again with unknown people. Like other things that you use, such as your clothes, shoes, watch and phone, jewellery has become an important way of expressing your identity.' IIkka Suppanen was born in Kotka, Finland in 1968 and works as a designer in Helsinki, where he founded Studio IIkka Suppanen in 1995. He studied architecture at Helsinki Technical University, and design at the same city's University of Art and Design and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He lectured at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, in 1996-2001. Prizes: First Prize Habitre competition, Finland, 1995; Young Designer of the Year Award, Germany (with Snowcrash) 1997; nominated for the Dedalus Prize for Young European Designers, 1998; Young Designer of the Year, Helsinki, 2001. Together with a number of colleagues, he founded the Snowcrash Design Co-operative in 1996, and became creative director of the Snowcrash Company in 2000. Product and concept designs for Cappellini, Spa Italy, Saab Automobiles Sweden, Proventus Design Sweden and Haworth USA. Research project with Nokia Multimedia Terminals, Finland, 1998-99. Research and development project with Haworth and the Polytechnic di Milan, 2000-01. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, 1992; Snowcrash, Milan, 1997; Modern Finnish Design, Bart Graduate Center, New York, 1998; Work Spheres, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001. His designs also feature in the permanent collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne. |
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