Ted Noten is a Dutch jewellery designer who constantly explores the boundaries of his profession. Once a bricklayer and a psychiatric nurse, he graduated from the Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1990 and started working on an oeuvre that has certainly influenced the contemporary jewellery field.
Noten has participated in a number of exhibitions worldwide, in a broad spectrum of galleries and museums. Sawing up a Mercedes Benz car into brooches, sealing a little dead mouse wearing a tiny pearl necklace inside a block of acrylate: his work is never far from controversy. Still, Noten honours the specific qualities of jewellery design in which emotions, humour and small stories play the leading part.
Since 2005, Atelier Ted Noten takes on larger projects and has created work for private collectors, local councils, art institutions etc. This includes (interior) design projects, installations and jewellery assignments.
Will be presented at colette:
A freaky Christmas installation including a collection of solid acrylic bags with various enclosures and a number of jewellery items.
-a new series of silver earrings in the shape of 4 typical Ted Noten "icons" such as the
Turbo Princess (dead mouse wearing a pearl necklace) and the gun-bag
-many "
Fred" pendants
-a display of Custom Jewellery: black lacquered silver brooches made from tags, labels, hangers etc, to be sewed onto your clothes
And many more...
Atelier Ted NotenDecember 3rd to January 6th
colettehttp://www.colette.fr/213 rue Saint-Honoré
75001 Paris
Open from Monday to Saturday 11am to 7pm
Tel: +33 1 55 35 33 90 - Fax: +33 1 55 35 33 99
contact@colette.fr
Metro Tuileries or Pyramides / Bus line 68 or 72
Galerie: galerie@colette.fr - Tel: +33 1 55 35 33 97
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