Leyla Taranto
Jeweller
Published: 24.11.2021
- Mail:
- leylataranto
tozdesign.com
Leyla Taranto is a jewellery designer based in Istanbul, Turkey, with a BA in Sociology. Her interest in jewellery, which began with a childhood fondness for bracelets and necklaces and was later formalised with atelier training, is now a full-time passion and occupation. Through her brand name toz design, Taranto continues to experiment with both traditional and non-traditional materials for jewellery design, including scrap materials.
Statement
Remains collectionTo create the Remains collection, I salvaged discarded ornamental scrap wood pieces from the floor of an Istanbul custom frame shop. Without knowing what I would do with them, I took the remains to my studio. Back in the woodshop, I began to experiment with the fragments, and through a series of innovative choices, created one-of-a-kind or limited editions consisting of new forms that reflected my own conceptual, stylistic and structural interpretations of the original scraps.
As a designer, I found it gratifying to be able to provide these scraps an unanticipated usefulness and to enable them to recover a wholeness all their own by playing with the juxtaposition of what is precious (wood) and what is not precious (waste).
Threshold Series
A threshold is both figuratively and literally a point after which a transition begins. It is the moment or position of stillness between one physical or emotional place and another.
For the exhibition “Between a break and a breakdown: Jewelry as a mirror of our time” which is a part of the 5th edition of The Jerusalem Biennale, my brooch, necklace and earrings reflect on the theme ‘adaptation’. I chose aluminium threshold materials, sold in metres and used at bases of doors between rooms. These aluminium strips cover seams between rooms that tell us that change is afoot, they smooth over the difference, they make the transition less jarring. In a sense, they facilitate adaptation to the new space. But they are themselves a constant reminder of the transition and the adaptation that will follow.
CV 
On sale at
Events
Publications
- Mail:
- leylatarantotozdesign.com
newsletter
Get the latest information about the international Jewellery Scene sent directly to your mailbox every week. View previous issues
-
Xinyi Chen
London, United Kingdom -
Staffan Jonsson
Gothenburg, Sweden -
Yiota Vogli
Athens, Greece -
Lydia Hirte
Dresden, Germany -
Annette Dam
Copenhagen, Denmark -
Adriana Lisowska
Gdynia, Poland -
Yolanda Zheng
Zhangzhou, China -
Sandra Bostock
Mexico City, Mexico -
Salvador Vico
Valladolid, Spain -
Harold O'Connor
Salida, United States -
Alain Roggeman
Brussels, Belgium -
Jeanine van der Linde
Kloetinge, Netherlands -
Shuyao Hong
Nanjing, China -
Yajie Hu
Loughborough, United Kingdom -
Deniz Turan
Istanbul, Turkey
