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Michael Zobel and partner Peter Schmid create flamboyant, dramatic precious jewelry that combines wearable forms with a theatrical, larger-than-life esthetic. This effect is created in part by the exaggerated three-dimensionality of many of the Studio’s designs – which like all out-of-scale forms, demands that we re-evaluate the form itself and its function. Certainly, one function is as pure sculpture, in which the scale is crucial to the viewer; another is theatricality and the attention brought to the wearer. In all of this play of scale and size, there is a great sense of fun: an enjoyment of color and pattern for its own sake and a true pleasure in jewelry as ornament.
To create the variety of patterns, textures and colors in his work, Atelier Zobel resorts to a wide variety of technique and materials. The patterned gold surfaces are 24K fused on 18K gold. Sterling silver surfaces are often patterned with streaks of platinum and 24K gold overlay, to create an effect of charcoal-on-paper.
Michael Zobel was born in Morocco, raised in Spain, apprenticed in Germany. He studied jewelry art and design at the KunstundWerkSchule in Pforzheim and opened his own studio in Germany in 1970.
Peter Schmid trained as a jewelry designer at the School for Design, Jewelry and Instruments in Schwabisch-Gmund , Germany , and apprenticed to Michael Zobel. The rest is history.
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