Semplicità –
or the charm of plain and simple
Necklace, gold (photo © Petra Jaschke)
Dorothee Striffler
The central theme of my work deals with the plain and simple in design. Plain and simple for me personally means to reduce the design to its necessary and essential parts and to do without any unnecessary decoration in order to develop from this reduction a particular and individual esthetic attraction. What attracts me most about this plain and simple style is the seeming contradiction, that the reduction of shapes to clear, elementary and linear forms allows a surprising variety of shapes and stuctures by varying details and by working with contrasts, and to be more precisely by combining them within one piece. This combination leads to a visual tension als well as an incredible vividness.
Necklace, gold (photo © Petra Jaschke)
Biography
born 1967 in Mannheim
training 1988–1992 vocational training as a goldsmith
studies 1993–1997 studies at Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences since 1997 working as an independent jewellery-designer in Mannheim
1998-2003 Assistant at the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences, Department of Jewellery and Metalwork
since 2002 cooperation with Stefan Krauß, Dipl.-Des.(FH)
since 1998 represented in numerous galleries in Germany as well as abroad
2007-2008 lecturer at the Haute école d´art et de design, Geneva, CH
2010 lecturer at the Haute école d´art et de design, Geneva, CH
image top: Necklace, gold (photo © Eva Jünger)
