Studio Annika Wirken

Bracelet // rawhide

Bracelet, daily support, is cut out of rawhide and stitched to fit.
It is designed to symbolically support the elbow and wrist.

Brooche // sterling silver

Brooche, insight, is constructed out of silver square tubes.
Inspired by surgical eye speculums the brooche is designed to
keep fabrics, like a blouse, open and offer an insight.

Brooche // resin plaster, powder coated brass

Brooche, fragments, is composed by thin layers of resin plaster.

The added brass is powder coated and serves as a closing system.

Inspired by architectural structures found in Antwerp, Berlin,

Budapest, Tilburg and Vienna, fragments is available in five

different styles.

Bracelet // patinated brass, cotton wire

Bracelet, annegret, is constructed of square tubes of brass
and cotton wire. The design is inspired by the photo-stitch
works of German visual artist Annegret Soltau.

‘Steel tuft’ is an earpiece developed with the technique of hand tufting, known

in the flooring industry to create soft pile rugs. The combination of technique

and use of material create a soft and flexible construction which adds

liveliness and emotion to a material which is normally referred to

as hard and cold.

‘Steel tuft’ was created for the 2014 Steel Prize competition, A Touch of Steel,

organized by the German Kolloquium Nordrhein Westfalen and the Royal

Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and received an honorable mention.

Earpiece // steel, tulle, cotton, wire

Earpiece, steel tuft, is a soft and flexible construction of longer

and smaller pieces of steel wire that are ‘tufted’ through a tule wire

to create a tangible and pleasant to the skin surface.

Necklace // plastic

Necklace, confused, is composed from knotted and burned
straps of plastic. The design is part of parure and grows
and molds together as if it were a symbiotic organism.