Designers on Jewelry: Twelve Years of Jewelry Production by Chi ha Paura?

摘要

Chi ha paura...? or Who's afraid...? is a provocative experiment in contemporary jewelry. The brainchild of the Dutch jeweler and designer Gijs Bakker, it was launched in 1997 and initially financed by his prize money from the Prins Bernhard Fonds Award for Applied Arts and Architecture. Bakker started to recruit designers in different fields, such as furniture, interior design, and architecture, plus a handful of jewelers, and commissioned them to make jewelry lines, which were then launched at leading European shows such as the Salone del Mobile.