Max Machaidze creates "wearable sculptures" from salvaged Soviet and American objects
Tbilisi designer Max Machaidze has created a range of jewellery made up of found objects including pom-poms, skateboard wheels and industrial ceramics from Soviet-era machinery.
The oversized jewellery and a parallel series of sculptures are based on childhood memories of creating towers by piling up stones.
The chains, modelled by Machaidze himself, feature large found objects
"As kids we all assembled vertical towers with rocks," the Georgian designer said. "I use the same formula but instead of rocks I use old baseballs, Soviet ceramics used in electricity, skateboard wheels, crystals, car parts etcetera."
The designer describes the chains as "wearable sculptures assembled from different materials we collected from car-part bazaars, vintage toy shops, flea markets, thrift stores and other locations". Salvaged Soviet and American objects feature in the jewellery
The objects combine nostalgia for both twentieth-century America and the Soviet era, when Georgia was a republic of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991.
"I look for things that are in a dialogue with earth, that have lasted for a period of time and are still around, some scratched some weathered," said Machaidze.
Items Machaidze uses include tennis balls, skateboard wheels and pom-poms
Another chain features resin cubes made by a craftsman who makes loaded dice that are used by scammers in casinos.
"He's a guy that is in the blacklist of all casinos because he makes spec...
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