Three Years in the Fridge

There is a piece in my studio that spent three years inside a fridge.

Not metaphorically. Literally.

It began as wax. I wasn’t designing a product. I wasn’t thinking about a collection. I was following a form that insisted on existing.

I let it grow.

The wax became bold, fluid, expansive. It had movement and tension. It also had a problem: it was impossible to cast.

Too heavy. Too large. Unwearable.

For a moment I considered transforming it into a sculpture. I studied large-format casting. But something resisted. The piece didn’t want distance. It wanted the body.

So I stopped forcing it.

I placed it inside a large container and stored it in the fridge to preserve the wax. Months passed. Then years. I moved studios. The container moved with me.

It was not forgotten. It was waiting.

One word kept returning: electroforming.

At that time, it felt beyond me. Technically complex. Risky. But it was the only way the form could remain large and become light enough to be worn.

Three years later, I decided to learn the process.

There was real risk. In electroforming, the wax core disappears. If the copper shell fails, the piece is gone forever.

I accepted that.

The first result was imperfect. One section collapsed. I had to cut, reinforce, rethink structure and balance. The intervention refined it. Made it stronger.

Copper grew slowly, layer by layer. Then sanding. Gold plating. Oxidation. Replating. Adjusting surfaces until everything felt resolved.

And then I stopped touching it.

That is how I know a piece is finished. When it no longer asks for correction.

 

 

 

It is electroformed copper with gold-plated surfaces and brass elements.
It occupies space. It shifts posture. It is delicate and powerful at once.

Its price is 7.500€.

That number reflects time, scale, technical risk, and the refusal to reduce an idea to make it easier.

For three years I remained loyal to this form.

Now it is ready to leave the studio.

And I am ready to let it go.