pawel kaczynski: metal pleats, crinkles and wrinkles
Susan Lomuto | Jun 18, 2009 | Comments 9
I don’t know much about Polish jewelry designer Pawel Kaczynski, but I can tell you that his use of steel, silver, bronze mesh and paint has resulted in numerous awards for the artist. Textile meets jewelry in an explosion of color and texture in this body of work. The closures on Kaczynski’s cuffs and collars are a striking example of how an artist’s work can sing when the functional elements of a piece are incorporated into the design. I want to touch them and memorize the way they feel under my fingers. Wrinkles have never been so sexy.
Kaczynski’s website is difficult and I broke my own rule of not spending more than two minutes trying to get the mechanics of a website to work. Generally, if a website is built in a way that makes it hard for viewers to actually see (or find) the work I almost always move on to the next artist. I made an exception in this case because the work has a WOW factor that supercedes the difficulties of the website. The web has other places you can go to see a few of his pieces here and there, but his website seems to have the most complete collection – it is frustrating that we can’t get a good look at all of it. [Edited on 6/19 to add: Based on a reader's comment I visited Kaczynski's website from another computer and it worked fine. Both are Macs and up to date with Flash - I don't know why it worked fine on one and with a great deal of difficulty on the other, but it was delightful to be able to see all of this artist's collection!]
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These pieces are fabulous!!!! I hope I get to see them up close some day. Thanks!!!
Pawel Kaczynski is one of my favorite Jewellers, I love his work!
I don’t understand regarding his website though, I have always loved and admired the style of his site and I find it easy to navigate.
Wow! I can’t get his website to work at all, even looking at the source code. I really want to see the work, though — looks divine.
It is a FLASH website, maybe you need to install “adobe flash player” on your computer to view.
It is free to download.
Melody I’m glad to hear that you aren’t having any problem with the site.
I have the flash player and I look at dozens of flash sites every day as I do my research for DAM. On his website I found it painful to get the thumbnails to work and there were many that just didn’t do what they were supposed to do.
His work is spectacular – just wish I could figure out how to make the website cooperate!
That was amazing. Such a variety, so inspiring. And my computer can’t even figure out ebay sometimes, but it was fine w/his site.
[...] I was surfing around the internet looking for information about yesterday’s feature artist I found one more jeweler from Poland to end our week. Again, I couldn’t unearth much [...]
Ladies, make sure you have the latest Adobe Flash (if you don’t just update); also it utlizes a large amount of your cache memory…try closing all other apps if you have anything else open. Also, give you system a restart to clear out cache memory…good luck because if really is a beautiful site.
Magnifeco, what a find. I had no problems navigating his site. Thank you so much for taking the time and patience to guide us to this wonderful artist.