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Amberif Design Award Winners 2025

Award giving  /  12 Mar 2025
 
Published: 31.03.2025
Brooch: Of Shadows by Fumiko Gotô.Pressed natural amber, buffalo horn, silver.925. 2025.4,4 cm x 2,3 cm x 3 cm.Awarded at: Amberif Design Award 2025Unique piece. . Grand Prix - Award of the Mayor of the City of Gdansk. . . Of Shadows . . In his essay “In Praise of Shadows” (1933), Jun’ichiro Tanizaki illustrates the relationship between sensory perceptions, portraying the traditional Japanese sweet Yôkan to reveal how ambient darkness can enhance its savoury experiences. Inspired by this remark, I have created a work on the relationship between light and shadow. . This piece, which visually evokes the appearance of Yôkan, employs amber and buffalo horn. These organic materials symbolise the symbiotic relationship between Flora and Fauna, reflecting the harmony inherent in interconnected nature. . The inspiration from traditional Japanese sweets is integral to my creative journey. Drawing from their aesthetics, I began creating art jewellery after over three decades of practising architecture and design, merging these disciplines into a tactile and wearable form of art. .   . Fumiko Gotô, 2025 .  . Fumiko Gotô
Brooch: Of Shadows, 2025
Pressed natural amber, buffalo horn, silver.925
4,4 cm x 2,3 cm x 3 cm
Awarded at: Amberif Design Award 2025

Grand Prix - Award of the Mayor of the City of Gdansk.

Of Shadows

In his essay “In Praise of Shadows” (1933), Jun’ichiro Tanizaki illustrates the relationship between sensory perceptions, portraying the traditional Japanese sweet Yôkan to reveal how ambient darkness can enhance its savoury experiences. Inspired by this remark, I have created a work on the relationship between light and shadow.
This piece, which visually evokes the appearance of Yôkan, employs amber and buffalo horn. These organic materials symbolise the symbiotic relationship between Flora and Fauna, reflecting the harmony inherent in interconnected nature.
The inspiration from traditional Japanese sweets is integral to my creative journey. Drawing from their aesthetics, I began creating art jewellery after over three decades of practising architecture and design, merging these disciplines into a tactile and wearable form of art.
 
Fumiko Gotô, 2025
 
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Intro
 AMBERIF Design Award (ADA) is a competition that has been accompanied by AMBERIF in Gdańsk for 28 years. Its goal is to promote the Baltic amber as an means of artistic expression. The competition takes place every year under a different slogan. Each edition attracts new artists from different parts of the world, and its effect is the exhibition presents works for a long time in memory.
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