Thus, as if it were a “Curiosities Cabinet”, the frequent rooms or furniture that were used between the 16th and 18th centuries to keep strange and unusual things, for fossils, insects and archaeological pieces, among others. In that imprint, although renowned as a showroom and one workshop at the same time, there is the new space of the Bone Cabinet jewelry brand, founded by the sculptor Celina Saubidet and industrial designer Marina Molinelli Wells.
Located in the La Colorada building in the Palermo neighborhood, the site dressed entirely in blue contains designs inspired by the anatomy of the human body and also in the microscopic exploration of nature: its hit is the heart with arteries included, made in variety of colors, materials and sizes. Also the tooth -shaped rings, mouse head or nut appearance. The same, the hoops that mimic a sperm or a pendant that emulates a peanut, and the sculptures of a ball bug or stem cells.
They recognize their founders who, since the first jewel they made, in the mid -2000 Decorative
In conversation with Viva, they talk about their latest adventures as the incursion into the cutlery, in addition to daring textiles to develop carpet in a capsule with the Spartan.
-How do aesthetic decisions make?
Celina: We are very different, but we have a very respect dialogue.
Marina: We banked the whims. If not, we would not have arrived here. We have negative characteristics in common, it is what unites us most.
-Do they have similar defects?
Marina: Yes and that makes us be banked. We are hung, dismembered, scattered. Thousands of things that if one of the two was not, the eyebrow would not be banked.
-The heart they do as a jewel is the finding of the brand, what are the others?
Marina: The heart is still the entrance door for people to bone cabinet.
Celina: The heart as I said and as a small sculpture.
-With that design they changed the idea of the heart of romantic love, minimalist, like the one that children do.
Celina: This is more passionate.
Marina: It is an emblematic piece of bone cabinet. It is the image that represents us.
Celina: The bones too. Every friend I know if you go to the field brings me offerings of bones.
–When did they realize that it had become a hit?
Marina: It was a celina sculpture that made her younger.
Celina: It was in different circumstances when the draft Law of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE) was going to vote. To support the cause, I took a photo of the sculpture I had made and with the Photoshop I transformed it into green. They started telling us that they wanted one. So, not to do that, we look for a foundation to donate part of the profit. And as that year it was not approved, we continued to do it and we give it to influential people. Then those of Amnesty International Argentina chose the heart of resin to give it away.
Marina: New people brought us. It was subtle and very powerful. Many clients arrived at the brand from that. We met an audience, if you want more intellectual, that I did not know us for fashion. That generated an opening. People from another stick began to come. It was not on, we are not projecting.
-Do they handle more for desire?
Celina: We are maker. We are neither with marketing or numbers. We are our own project funding.
Marina: We self -finance. We never project enough time to look for the sponsors.
-He shows her in the National Museum of Decorative Art, was it a milestone in her career?
Marina: Yes, the Malba and the Decorative.
-Will it be because he brings them closer to a more massive audience?
Marina: People are encouraged to come. The appointment is not going anymore. We are not interested in being with a place on the street. We never shuffle it. Having everything here is more comfortable.
Celina: They also love coming. At the same time a lady came through a ring, suddenly she saw a sculpture, asked if she was for sale, and took her directly.
Marina: things happen here that in the previous space did not happen.
-Dan the definition of the jewel as a shell, what else did they find?
Mariana: We continue with the same.
Celina: Mainly, we start with human anatomy. It had to do with the sculpture he made and we transferred them to another scale. Then, we continue with the living kingdoms of nature. We are interested in putting the eye there, from a place of: “Attention to what we have to preserve.”
-How if it were a manifesto?
Celina: Yes, return something that, because it is small or because you do not pay attention, it is invisible to your eyes. In the exhibition in the house of Victoria Ocampo, we were also interested in working with recycled materials to use them in the sculptures. Do it in community with a foundation and get them out of their world by opening other possibilities. Now, we continue to do it with people who are very out of the system.
-That is the interesting reverse, because from common sense jewels have to do with ostentation, you are telling something else.
Marina: Yes, even our jewels are totally timeless. There are still the same collections and we are feedback. If we stop doing something, it is because it was perhaps a whim and did not have much impact.
Celina: And sometimes he returns. It happened to us with a design that we save in a drawer. Suddenly, one day came a client that began to stir and it seemed spectacular. We did it again and it was a success.
-They do not rule out anything, but jewelry -shaped jewelry at the beginning must have caused rejection.
MARINA: There are also people who happen with their hearts, they think too real and do not bank it. They tell you.
-What was the most unusual thing that happened to them?
Celina: One day they brought us a box with an entire skeleton and also Chinese medicine sheets. It would be someone who was dedicated to that. We received it as if they had brought us powdered gold. At the time we disarmed it and we put together on the floor. We use it a lot. And we have a furniture that has all the handles bathed in gold, made from that skeleton.
Marina: Something new is that we are doing things for the house. They are made on request. We sold cutlery sets for a prince who bought us for three houses. He arrived by a sample that we made in Cruz del Sur in José Ignacio.
-Of course, they are extravagances.
Marina: Yes, it’s like a table of the Addams crazy.
Celina: between The Crown and the Locos Addams. They are covered with silver lapas, we cut them and we pass the mangoes.
-Two themes of this era are that of diversity and technology.
Celina: With respect to gender, what we do is unisex.
Marina: We always went. We only vary the length of the chain.
-And that men adorn themselves from ancient times.
Celina: Humanity is becoming more unisex, then the division between men and women, and of what is used and what is not used, is old. More and more men will return to wear jewels as they did before.