ABOUT VASILIKI


CUSTOM & MADE TO MEASURE FINE & DEMI FINE JEWELLERY

AN ATHENS BASED PROJECT BY KIKI KARAYIANNIS

WHERE EACH PIECE IS HAND CRAFTED BY LOCAL ARTISANS
TRAINED IN CLASSICAL & BYZANTINE JEWELLERY REVIVAL

WORKING EXCLUSIVELY WITH PRECIOUS SOLID METALS,
IN CERTIFIED RECYCLED STERLING SILVER
&
FAIRTRADE GOLD

THE VASILIKI STUDIO

BASED NEAR ATHENS’ FILOPAPPOU HILL
VISITS AVAILABLE UPON APPOINTMENT
TO SCHEDULE PLEASE
CONTACT THE STUDIO 

CUSTOM &UNIQUE PIECES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
CONTACT
FOR AN ONLINE  CONSULTATION

THE ANCIENT PROCESS OF CASTING MOLTEN WAX IS USED TO CREATE ASYMMETRICAL AND UNISEX FORMS,
INSPIRED BY TRANSFORMATIONAL CHARACTERS FROM MYTHOLOGY
&
SCIENCE FICTION 

PIECES ARE CONSTRUCTED TO BE PARTNERS IN YOUR DAILY PERFORMANCE, BE IT AS A BYZANTINE,
PIRATE OR A PUNK 


IN OPPOSITION TO TECHNICAL DEMATERIALISATION
&
MASS PRODUCTION,
VASILIKI IS MADE WITH CARE,
SOFTENING METAL WITH FINGER PRINTS & FLUID DRIPS


THEY ARE OFFERED IN LIMITED EDITIONS
&
KIKI HEAVILY RESEARCHES ORIGINS & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS,
SOURCING RECYCLED & FAIRTARDE PRECIOUS METALS
&
ETHICALLY EXCAVATED GEMSTONES


THESE PRECIOUS STONES ARE SOURCED FROM DEALERS WHO UPHOLD FAIRTRADE PRINCIPLES
&
HAVE DIRECT CONTACT WITH INDIVIDUAL MINES,
SO THAT EACH GEMSTONE IS FULLY TRACEABLE
&
RESPONSIBLY MINED FROM CONFLICT FREE AREAS WHERE
MINERS ARE PAID FAIRLY
&
COMMUNITIES ARE REINVESTED IN.

“Beginning with complex, asymmetric sculptures in wax,
Kiki alchemically transforms them into shapeshifting characters of precious gold and silver that remember their mutable history as wax.
Each piece is an unique paradox that balances the contradictory idea that transience is the only permanent law”


Ali Wong

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