When jewels are magnified 100 times, on whose body will they be worn?

Some jewels are in bright windows, some in delicate jewelry boxes, but Belgian jewelry designer Liesbet Bussche's jewels are scattered in the streets of cities. From Antwerp to Philadelphia, from Amsterdam to Taipei, China ...... we met a series of cities that are so "posh" that you can't help but add them to your future travel plans.

"Urban Jewellery" urban jewelry collection

This impulse precisely confirms Liesbet Bussche's subtext: if people need jewelry to add charm, why can't cities?

The jewelry artist I'd like to introduce today has brought jewelry to the city streets by himself. The correct answer is that this is the jewelry work of the senior teacher of the jewelry department of the Royal College of Art in Amsterdam, the Netherlands!

Are you also curious to see this? Don't worry, bring your curiosity, prepare a small bench and take a roaming tour of the city with jewelry.

It turns out that the energy of art can make a city feel like breathing

While most cities are still in the stage of "survival", immersed in congested traffic, disorganized urban landscape, environmental pollution, and other troubling anxieties, Belgian jewelry designer Liesbet Bussche uses art to wake up the otherwise bleak city with a novel and humorous perspective, showing the crowd There is no one way to open "jewelry".

Born in Antwerp in 1980 and graduated from the Gerrit rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2009, Liesbet Bussche created this large bracelet for the small French town of Cagnes-sur-Mer in 2012 as part of a local exhibition dedicated to French star Suzy Solidor. part of an exhibition dedicated to French star Suzy Solidor.

"Urban Jewellery" urban jewelry collection

Who would have thought that the bracelet was just the beginning, but later this brainiac would reproduce a large version of the bracelet? How big is it? Well, it's as big as you can see! The appearance of "large jewelry" surprised the residents living here and made them a little more curious about this small town.

You thought Liesbet Bussche was bold enough to design around urban elements? Suzy Solidor, who died in 1983, was a popular singer, model, and actress in France in the 30s and 40s.

Suzy Solidor

Tamara de Lempicka's artwork for Suzy Solidor

The Eiffel Tower, money, music ......, and symbols of Paris, were also an integral part of Suzy Solidor's life. Decades later, designer Liesbet Bussche enlarged them into pendants on bracelets and placed them in the middle of the small city. As one walks by, one's curiosity is piqued and one is transported to the France of the 30s and 40s.

Bracelet Details

This bracelet is not the first time that Liesbet Bussche has created a piece for a city, as she started designing jewelry for different towns in Europe in 2009 using jewelry shapes.

In Amsterdam you may find a pair of cement studs in a rather understated color, which some people have quipped: I dropped my studs on the floor.

Cement earrings

A "broken heart" pendant

Later, Liesbet came to Asia. In Taipei, China, she left behind a string of pearls that glow at night. This pearl necklace is like a bright moon that lights up people's hearts at night, and lights up the city.

"Urban Jewellery" urban jewelry collection

Rudder Pendant

Belgian jewelry designer Liesbet Bussche takes a city as her protagonist and makes it a romantic and beautiful interpretation of an open and boundless horizon. If you are not careful, you may be attracted to this heavenly work, after all, no one will be as high-profile, exaggerated display of their "careful", but at the same time can make people's hearts flooded with infinite joy and compassion.

The dressed city is more than the surface beauty

The art project "Urban Jewelry" has appeared in several cities and towns, and Liesbet Bussche has designed a whole set of summer jewelry in the small Belgian town of Namur, which reminds you of beaches, oceans, free-flying seagulls The bikini-clad girls in swimsuits, which inadvertently adds to the summer atmosphere of the small town.

Ice cream pattern necklace

Coconut tree, starfish, boat spear ...... The five necklaces in this series are placed along the city's two famous rivers, the Meuse and the Sambre. Elements related to the sea and water appear in the works, showing the inseparable connection between the city and the water. When you see these vivid and summer resort-style accessories appearing in your sight, doesn't it give you a sense of ease and relaxation?

Coconut tree and boat anchor pattern necklace

Starfish and ice cream pattern necklace

As an offbeat jeweler, Liesbet Bussche's boundless interest in the city did not end with the brief end of the art project. While her serious counterparts delve into the mines in search of gemstones, she travels the streets of the city doing the same and very different work. In "Streets and Stones" each of the bricks, diamond plates, and traffic signs found on the streets are carefully polished to look like ore, as if they were natural treasures.

"Streets and Stones

For Liesbet Bussche, jewelry doesn't have to be private and personal, it can also be public and inviting. In 2013, on a trip to the Netherlands and Belgium, Liesbet Bussche had the idea of finding all the places on the map with the word "pearl" on them, "punching" them in turn, and then returning to the starting point, forming a "pearl necklace" on the map with his driving path.

The "De Parel-getting" pearl necklace

After the trip, she also made a postcard souvenir of this "precious" pearl road map and posted it on the Internet to provide guidance for future visitors to find the pearl necklace that belongs to each person.

The "De Parel-getting" pearl necklace

Liesbet Bussche breaks the traditional relationship between people and jewelry, using a new creative, and unique perspective to show the world an interesting connection that goes beyond people and things to people and people and the world. When this kind of warm and interesting visual art is delivered to everyone, it is worthwhile to re-examine the ordinary things around you at this moment.