Filip Vanas
Aluminium Ring €87.00
Architect Filip Vanas moved to Dublin from his native Czech Republic in 2005 taking up employment with an Irish architect. In 2009 Filip’s role was made redundant and he decided to take a jewellery course at NCAD under jewellery designer Erika Marks.
“I spend a lot of time drafting and distilling the idea before I touch any tools,” he explains. “For me as an architect, learning the requisite skills required was important to help me find ways to get design ideas to the finished piece stage.
I think about what can go wrong before I make it. In that regard my thinking is more industrial than craft in its process. I like high contrast, vivid colours and strong geometrical compositions. I use silver as the basic material for my work but I like to experiment with other, often non-precious material like textiles and plastics.”
Vanas’ work comprises three core collections; aluminium, silver and enamelled copper wire and silver with epoxy resin.
More by this maker
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Sterling Silver & Resin Necklace €218.00
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Sterling Silver Earrings €195.00
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Silver and Resin Earrings €121.00
Where to buy
Irish Design Shop
Bow Lane East
Dublin 2
Co. Dublin
01 475 2222
www.irishdesignshop.com
Craft Granary
Church Street
Cahir
Tipperary
052 744 1473
www.craftgranary.com
Designyard
48-49 Nassau Street
Dublin 2
Co. Dublin
01 474 1011
www.designyard.ie
Irish Designer Craft Village
The Old Schoolhouse
Ballinahown
Co. Westmeath
090 643 0222
www.irishdesignercraftvillage.com
Leitrim Design House
The Dock Arts Centre
St Georges Terrace
Carrick on Shannon
Co. Leitrim
071 965 0550
www.intoleitrim.com
