Leyla Taranto

Jeweller

Published: 10.03.2021

Leyla Taranto

: Istanbul
TURKEY

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Mail:: leylatarantotozdesign.com

Leyla Taranto
Brooch: RE-bro68, 2019
Wood picture frames (leftovers), paint, pearls, magnet.
6 x 4.5 x 2 cm
Photo by: Eda Kum
From series: Remains collection
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Leyla Taranto
Brooch: RE-bro69, 2019
Wood picture frames (leftovers), paint, pearls, magnet.
6 x 5 x 1.5 cm
Photo by: Eda Kum
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Leyla Taranto
Brooch: RE-bro58, 2019
Wood picture frames (leftovers), paint, pearl, magnet.
5.3 x 3.3 x 0.9 cm
Photo by: Eda Kum
From series: Remains collection
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Leyla Taranto
Earrings: RE-e19, 2019
Wood picture frames(leftovers), paint, blackened silver.
Photo by: Eda Kum
From series: Remains collection
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Leyla Taranto
Brooch: RE-bro73, 2019
Wood picture frames (leftovers), paint, blackened silver, magnet.
10 x 6 x 1 cm
Photo by: Eda Kum
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Leyla Taranto
Brooch: RE-bro79, 2019
Wood picture frames (leftovers), paint, blackened silver.
10.5 x 9 x 1 cm
Photo by: Eda Kum
From series: Remains collection
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Leyla Taranto
Brooch: RE-bro82, 2019
Wood picture frames (leftovers), paint, gold plated silver.
8.2 x 5 cm
Photo by: Eda Kum
From series: Remains collection
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Leyla Taranto
Brooch: RE-bro48, 2018
Wood picture frames(leftovers), paint, blackened silver.
10.3 x 7 x 1.2 cm
Photo by: Umut Töre
From series: Remains collection
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Leyla Taranto
Earrings: RE-e18, 2019
Wood picture frames(leftovers), paint, blackened silver.
4.5 x 2.5 x 1 cm
Photo by: Eda Kum
From series: Remains collection
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Leyla Taranto
Necklace: RE-n35, 2019
Wood picture frames (leftovers), paint, blackened silver.
23 x 19 cm
Photo by: Çetin Özdemir
From series: Remains collection
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Leyla Taranto
Necklace: RE-n35, 2019
Wood picture frames (leftovers), paint, blackened silver.
23 x 19 cm
Photo by: Çetin Özdemir
From series: Remains collection

On body.

Leyla Taranto
Necklace: RE-n25, 2018
Wood picture frames(leftovers), paint, blackened silver.
13 x 12 cm
Photo by: Eda Kum
From series: Remains collection
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Leyla Taranto
Necklace: RE-n25, 2018
Wood picture frames(leftovers), paint, blackened silver.
13 x 12 cm
Photo by: Eda Kum
From series: Remains collection

On body.

Leyla Taranto
Necklace: RE-n19, 2018
Wood picture frames (leftovers), paint, blackened silver.
11 x 5.5 x 1 cm
Photo by: Umut Töre
From series: Remains collection
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Leyla Taranto
Cufflinks: RE-cu05, 2017
Wood picture frames(leftovers), paint, blackened silver.
2 x 1.5 x 0.9 cm
Photo by: Eda Kum
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Leyla Taranto
Necklace: RE-n09, 2017
Wood picture frames (leftovers), paint, blackened silver.
8 x 6.3 x 1 cm
Photo by: Eda Kum
From series: Remains collection
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Leyla Taranto
Brooch: RE-bro08, 2016
Wood picture frames(leftovers), paint, blackened silver.
7.5 x 6.5 x 1 cm
Photo by: Umut Töre
From series: Remains collection
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

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 own brand name and gallery, toz design, Taranto continues to experiment with both traditional and non-traditional materials for jewellery design, including scrap materials.

Statement

To 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).

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Leyla Taranto

: Istanbul
TURKEY

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Mail:: leylatarantotozdesign.com