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chp…? has ended
In 1996, Gijs Bakker received the prestigious Prince Bernard Prize including a cash prize of 100,000 Guilders. Thanks to the award he was able to co-create the jewelry brand Chi ha paura…?. The label was the embodiment of a long-cherished idea to bring jewelry to the market as an industrial product instead of a mere object…
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Device People at Hôtel Droog
Device People at Hôtel Droog With works by: Bart Hess Conversation Piece by Nicolas Cheng & Beatrice Brovia Jing He mischer’traxler studio and Patricia Domingues Opening by Timo de Rijk, director Design Museum Den Bosch Thursday 4 October, 5-7 pm Exhibition is on display from 2 to 28 October…
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Living Motif
From July 13th to August 9th 2018 LIVING MOTIF exhibited eight contemporary jewelry brands, including chp…?. Jewelry that discovers new self-esteem, makes you feel surprised and fresh. Jewelry that acts on such a heart enriching everyday life, and way of life. For more than thirty years, LIVING MOTIF has been working to nurture a…
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Device People – looking back at Milan Design Week
Milan Design Week 2018 proved a huge success for Device People, thelatest project of chp…?, presented at new Milan hotspot ALCOVA. The building, one of Milan’s most historic panettone factories partly taken over by plants and vegetation, was open to the public for the first time during Design Week. Housing a group of 27 designers, institutions, galleries and…
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Device People
Devices have taken over our lives. According to research, the average smartphone user checks their phone 221 times a day. As Jacob Weisberg suggested in a recent article in The New York Review of Books, we have all turned into ‘device people’ and our transformation into device people has happened with unprecedented suddenness.…
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Salone del Mobile 2018
Salone del Mobile 2018 From April 17th to April 22nd chp…? jewelry presents Device People With Bart Hess, Conversation Piece, Jing He, mischer’traxler studio and Patricia Domingues Official Opening Event: Aperitivo on Thursday 19th 17.30 – 20.00h Tuesday 17th – Sunday 22nd 2018 11 am – 7 pm…
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50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
At the third annual Elements festival in Edinburgh two jewellery experts, curator and writer Amanda Game and designer and teacher Professor Dorothy Hogg MBE, have curated 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship. They have invited 50 artists and designers from around the world to contribute a work, or series of works, to the exhibition. Each artist…
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chp…? in StyleDrive Exhibition
Stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek dug into the jewelry collection of Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch to make a series of contemporary styling profiles, matching people and their cars with pieces of jewelry. Like driving a specific car, wearing jewelry can be a way to express yourself. chp…? pieces by Konstantin Grcic, Katja Prins, Mathijs Korpershoek and Gijs Bakker…
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MEDUSA – Bijoux et tabous
chp07 Triller ring by Hannes Wettstein will be shown at the MEDUSA exhibition from May 19th to November 5th 2017 in the The Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. MEDUSA is an exhibition taking a contemporary and unprecedented look at jewellery, unveiling a number of taboos. Jewellery elicits undeniable reactions of “attraction/repulsion”, depending…
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Exhibition in Mexico City reached over 54.000 visitors
Earlier this year, the retrospective exhibition ‘chp…? jewelry – un proyecto de Gijs Bakker’ at the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City showed the complete collection of chp…? designs including all unique prototypes (all part of the permanent collection of the Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch). The exhibition, that ran from August until October, was accompanied by a presentation of…
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Jewelry Design Students’ Design Contest
Wanderlust (Reislust) – Pasión por el viaje From August to October this year, chp…?’s complete collection was shown at ‘chp…? joyeria’, in Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City. For the very first time all of chp…? jewelry designs, part of the permanent collection of the Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, were shown together. Previous to the opening…
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Gijs Bakker delivered keynote address at opening Beyond Bling
On October 1st, Gijs Bakker delivered the keynote address at the symposium during the opening of “Beyond Bling: Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection”. The symposium featured a panel discussion and several speakers exploring contemporary jewelry through design, film, and ethnography. Beyond Bling: Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)…
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Workshop for design students – Museo Franz Mayer
Following the opening of the chp…? on tour exhibition at Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City, Gijs Bakker conducted a workshop about designing. Over 40 undergraduate students and their professors from Universidad Anáhuac del Norte, Centro de Investigaciones de Diseño Industrial CIDI-UNAM, and Universidad Iberoamericana IBERO CDMX were present and attentively listened and participated. Gijs started off…
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chp…? on tour – Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico
in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Mexico and with the generous support of Creative Industries Fund NL August 5 – October 2, 2016 – Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City chp…? jewelry celebrates its 20th birthday with an exhibition showing the…
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Walter van Beirendonck for chp…? launched in Paris
On January 20th, Walter Van Beirendonck for chp…? was launched during Menswear Fashion Week in Paris. The Belgian fashion designer used an industrial squat in central Paris as the backdrop for ‘WOEST’ (Dutch for furious), his Fall 2016 menswear collection. As part of the collection, he designed ear plates and brass charms that have been developed and produced in…
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Make it chp…?
Two things have been important for us at chp…? jewelry since our founding in the nineties: the people we work with and innovation. Jewelry designers, product designers, architects, fashion designers, graphic designers: we have invited anyone we thought was interesting in their field to try their hand at jewelry. Innovation came to us through these…
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Salone del Mobile: chp…? at Palazzo Clerici, Milan
Make it chp…? – a chp…? jewelry and Make it LEO collaboration April 14-19, Palazzo Clerici, Milan Two things have been important for us at chp…? jewelry since our founding in the nineties: the people we work with and innovation. Jewelry designers, product designers, architects, fashion designers, graphic designers: we have invited…
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chp…? jewelry in Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza (It)
After many years of preparation, the Museo del Gioiello in Vicenza (Italy) finally opened its doors in December 2014. The beautiful Basilica Palladiana in the heart of Vicenza, designed and constructed in the 15th century by the famous Italian architect Andrea Palladio, serves as decor for this new museum devoted to the history of jewelry.…
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Fondation Louis Vuitton exclusive sales point for chp…?
We are very proud that we can announce that chp…? has an exclusive selling point in Paris at the wonderful Fondation Louis Vuitton. In 2006, at the behest of Bernard Arnault, the LVMH group created the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Designed by the American architect Frank Gehry, it falls within the policy of art and culture…
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Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch shows Global Identity
The relationship between chp…? and Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch is a long and fruitful one. All chp…? collections have been developed with the help of the Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch and all our prototypes are being looked after by them – as part of their large collection of contemporary jewelry. The last chp…? project in cooperation with…
