Chi ha Paura...? (Winkel)

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Het label Chi ha Paura...? (Italiaans voor 'Wie is er bang voor ...?') is een initiatief van Gijs Bakker en galeriehoudster Marijke Vallanzasca. Sinds 1996 nodigen zij elke drie jaar ontwerpers uit om een ontwerp voor een sieraad te maken dat meer is dan een decoratieve accessoire. Dat levert een zeer gevarieerde collectie sieraden op die allemaal kunnen worden beschouwd als kleine kunstwerkjes. Door het produceren van conceptuele ontwerpen laat CHP blijken dat een goed sieraad meer is dan een decoratieve accessoire. De sieraden worden gemaakt door middel van warmtekrachtkoppeling. De originaliteit van het concept staat centraal in het ontwerp en wordt ondersteund door een passende keuze van het materiaal en technologie.

chp…? jewelry is a brand.
A collection.
It’s jewelry in context.
It’s a Gijs Bakker project.

PEOPLE BEHIND CHP
Gijs Bakker is the creative director of chp…? and its collections, Nora Morton is the connection between chp…?, the retailer and the customer and Carole Hernandez is chp…?s Identity designer, also on top of our PR and events. Pauline Barendse joins our think-tank whenever new collections are being made.
But ……most of all we live by the wonderful people that accept the invitation to design for us….

chp…? was established as Chi ha paura…? in 1996.
Designer and co-founder of Droog Design Gijs Bakker from Amsterdam, the Netherlands and gallery owner Marijke Vallanzasca from Padova, Italy set up the foundation, wanting to show the world that by producing conceptual design jewelry, a good piece of jewelry is more than a decorative accessory. For chp…? originality of the concept is central to the design and is supported by a fitting choice of material and technology. ?By showing that jewelry design evolves just like any other design discipline CHP fills an existing void by making designer jewelry more widely accessible.
chp…? asks well-established designers to invigorate the tradition of jewelry design, while paying particular attention to concept, play, new techniques and materials. By this concentrating more on the preciousness of the idea rather than on the material value of the object.


PRODUCTION
All chp…? products are made with the utmost care, mostly by hand, by jewelry maker and technical brain Jan Matthesius. He is a skilled gold- and silversmith and since 1983 a part-time teacher at the Polytechnical College, Schoonhoven (NL). Jan is responsible for design development, including the search for the latest materials, clever technical solutions and innovative techniques. Each piece is finished by hand to assure a high quality standard.

COLLECTION
chp…?’s collection consists of both timeless classics, bringing together unique jewelry pieces by internationally renowned designers and of work especially designed for chp…? in context of a project.
Once every three years chp…?, in cooperation with Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, invites a group of designers to design a piece of jewelry in response to a theme. So far Sense of Wonder, What’s Luxury?, Rituals, Body Stories and Global Identity lead to illusive designs.
All first prototypes ever made of designs for CHP are in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum’s Hertogenbosch.

MATERIALS
Because of their exploratory nature in the designs for the chp…? collection, materials are always mentioned on this website and can serve as a starting point to discover the versatile collection. The materials are also individually mapped in the wonderful catalogue ‘Designers on Jewellery’ that graphic designer Joost Grootens has put together for chp…?

http://www.wannekes.nl/nl/10___chi-ha-paura/

http://www.chpjewelry.com