CARLOTTA SCARABEO

Carlotta Di Cerbo, 26, Architect

The project “Carlotta Scarabeo” is born through the attribution of new forms and aesthetic values, trying to enhance the concept of jewel, not intended as precious object but as an unique detail realized with elements of daily re-use. The concept is to enrich poor materials using metals, tiny gracious parts and hooks. Industrial elements in copper, minutely treated and assembled with rope elements generate accessories that are eccentric in the volume but minimal in form. Each piece ishand-made and in this way, unique. Although producible in large quantities, every accessory will always be slightly different from the other. Herefrom derives the great importance attached to handmade value and attention to detail. The craftsmanship of Carlotta Scarabeo’s products is considered the added value through which it’s possible tocustomize your own accessories choosing the finishing and sometimes even forms of the same object, often flexible and changeable. The synthesis between tradition and innovation is recognizable in the constant juxtaposition of craft and industrial-chemical processes, as such as scratches and galvanic baths in gold and silver, accelerated oxidation processes and paintwork. Particular attention is paid for materials and chemicals used that don’t cause irritation in contact with skin.