Only those who are persistent, persevering, diligent, and desperate to smear all their lives into their works, can they deserve the title of artist.
——Yuyan sister
At the upcoming Maastricht European Art Fair (TEFAF), Chinese designer 赵心綺 (Cindy Zhao) will exhibit her latest gem brooch designed and produced ——" chaotic flowers gradually green " (the original name is Greenovia, the Chinese name of is given by sister Yuyan).
▲The “Squashing Green” brooch is framed by titanium, platinum, and silver, inlaid with 105 carats of golden emeralds, opals, and diamonds
zz, the top art jewelry designer should draw the artwork first Carve out the wax mold base by yourself, and craftsmen make the metal frame based on the wax carving
▲TEFAF is the world’s largest and most influential art fair featuring masters and antiques
Zhao Xinqi once said that emeralds are Her favorite gem is .
Before sister meets words start today's article, let's first experience Zhao Xinqi's green jewelry .
▲ side fly emerald green butterfly brooch feather brooch
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▲ stack wing green butterfly brooch earrings, which once lent earrings worn
▲ cuckoo emerald bracelet City. Inspired by the curved curve of Gaudí's architecture, the miniature architecture is shaped into an organic complex
▲Emerald City Ring. Inlaid cushion-cut, 44-carat Colombian emerald
▲ emerald dragonfly brooch
▲ emerald flower bud brooch. Pulling out the diamond bud reveals a string of emerald-green drop-shaped beads
. It's beautiful. Sister Yuyan was obsessed with her writing when she wrote, and she was amazed by the designer's whimsy.
Zhao Xinqi 's life experience can be described as peculiar.
chose to be a young single mother when she was 25 years old. When she was most struggling, she had only NT$25,000 (5000 RMB ) in her account.
However, only three years after she started her business, her work was listed at the Christie's auction in New York and sold at three times the reserve price .
▲Zhao Xinqi's work, the royal butterfly brooch is collected by the American History Museum
At present, Zhao Xinqi, whose works are collected by the American History Museum , is a veritable world's top jewelry artist . Her output of
is extremely low, and can only complete 36 works in one year.
Wendi Deng, Ivanka, Queen of Jordan are all her clients. Behind every hand-made orphan product of
, a large number of collectors are looking forward to it and waiting hard.
And now, it is only 15 years and from the creation of Cindy Chaos jewelry brand. How did a miracle like
happen?
▲30-40% of Zhao Xinqi’s clients are male professional collectors, they don’t wear them, don’t give them away, they just specialize in collection for appreciation
z153 and my 1zz8’s 1z zz8’s 1z zz8’s works would be exhibited in Paris. Zhao Xinqi was born in Tainan, a family of folk art, . Her grandfather is the famous temple architect , and her father is the sculptor who makes Buddha statues and buckets. Since childhood, Zhao Xinqi has been fascinated by her grandfather's drawings of the table and the model of the house of her father. ▲ Zhao Xinqi is a very strong girl who is soft on the outside and strong on the inside. She claims that she is a thousand points dedicated, one thousand points focused, super-controlling, and does not allow any variables Zhao Xinqi's father is a person immersed in her own world. He is quiet, afraid of noisy, always creating silently, and rarely talks to children. When Zhao Xinqi was at home, her father always stuffed her with a piece of clay and asked her to squeeze a small flower and grass to entertain herself, for fear that her daughter would disturb her. "Unknowingly , I became the apprentice to follow my father for the longest time. " Zhao Xinqi said. ▲Most designers will make wax models by specialized craftsmen after drawing the sketches. But Zhao Xinqi has always made wax molds by herself ▲butterfly bracelet z▲Autumn leaves earrings z▲Maple leaf bracelet zzhao 333zzzzzzzzzzzzz3 earrings 6zzzzzzzzzz3 zhao vines for the first year as the mother of the mother of red gemstone earrings 333zzzzzzzzzzzzz3 333zzzzzzzzz3 finishes an order, her father pays to her 5 yuan . Later, my father recalled that the Buddha statue built by his 7-year-old daughter had reached the level of an adult apprentice
" We don't have much communication in life. The only way to get my father to talk is to talk to him about creation. " Zhao Xinqi said.
▲ Zhao Xinqi, who was born in 1973, has just turned 46 years old and is at the peak of his artistic creativity. She said: There is no two way to success. It is to work hard and persist in
until after she became famous, Zhao Xinqi realized what kind of mark her grandfather and father left on her.
Zhao Xinqi's design breaks the traditional flat mosaic, and is famous for its 360-degree seamless three-dimensional effect.
"My father said that the best art of is the three-dimensional art . Whenever I see something, I will rotate it in my mind and consider the 360-degree structure." Zhao Xinqi said.
For most people, the cognition of art starts from the two-dimensional creation of smearing on white paper.
is even more like sister Yuyan, who has not established a three-dimensional thinking until now, and it is difficult to learn three-dimensional geometry.
But Zhao Xinqi is different. From the beginning, she was exposed to the three-dimensional art of .
▲Zhao Xinqi advises clients: "The more fancy, the bigger the jewelry, but the simpler clothes should be worn during the day."
z1The craftsman who serves is the sculptor and architect who use gems as materials."Grandpa chooses reinforced cement, father chooses wood carving clay sculpture, I choose metal gemstones, , no matter what the material is the same, we do essentially the same things. " said Zhao Xinqi.
The high-dimensional perspective, the skills of the boy, breaking the ceiling is completely natural to her.
▲Interestingly, as a jewelry designer, Zhao Xinqi herself is not a fan of jewelry, nor does she wear jewelry. After graduating from high school with white shirt, black trousers and wide belt
, Zhao Xinqi went to study in the United States.
first studied in business school, and then transferred to the New York School of Design to study jewelry design at the suggestion of his mother, and obtained a jewelry appraiser license.
After graduating from university, Zhao Xinqi, who was already engaged, found that she was not suitable for the other party, and to make matters worse, she was considering breaking up and she was pregnant.
originally wanted to make do with the marriage, but the mother who was also a single mother reminded Zhao Xinqi: " is not as long as the pain in the future, it is better to have a short pain now. " and
and encouraged her to give birth to a child and raise her independently. Zhao Xinqi, who gave birth to her son
, initially worked in a Jewish wholesale diamond company.
Two years later, Zhao Xinqi, who returned to Tainan with the belief that " I will design, not wholesale ", started her own studio with the support of her mother.
At that time she was and 30 years old and .
said it was a studio. In fact, it was in the living room of , . Apart from Zhao Xinqi herself, there were only two people: sister and assistant .
▲ Sister Yu Yan feels that it is the genes in the blood that made Zhao Xinqi embark on the road of designer
Zhao Xinqi found that the jewelry of the elders was in good condition, but the craftsmanship was out of date and unsuitable.
So she decided to start the business from renovation .
's first "order" was a 5-carat ruby from his mother's .
Because Zhao Xinqi does not have a storefront and cannot gain the trust of the ladies, she can only start a small business with a fee of million and . After the word-of-mouth of
was opened, customers came one by one.
ladies value the uniqueness of Zhao Xinqi's design.
The 26-carat diamond bracelet at Zhang Qingfang’s wedding, the colorful diamond earrings worn by Chen Xingyu at Chen Zhizhong’s wedding, the European retro diamond ring worn by Jia Jingwen when her daughter Wutong was wearing a pair of full moon wine, and the white diamond vintage ruby ring worn by Tao Zi when she got married. It is from Zhao Xinqi's hand.
▲ Zhang Qingfang was the first Bole to appreciate Zhao Xinqi. Zhao Xinqi once asked her: "You have the ability to buy brand-name jewelry, why do you choose me?"
However, re-setting jewelry for customers is not Zhao Xinqi's true ideal.
"I don't like customers telling me that I want to set this way, I want to set it like that. Everyone generally thinks that large gemstones and good color are the most important, and the design is just the icing on the cake." Zhao Xinqi said: " good gemstones need good design. Enhance its value ." When
was 30 years old, when Zhao Xinqi passed by Paris Grand Palais Museum , she said to her assistant with emotion: "If is alive, my works can be exhibited here, it would be dead. I’m sorry for .”
The Grand Palais in Paris exhibited hand-held artworks created by Cartier, Chanel, and Van Cleef & Arpels .
To others, Zhao Xinqi's words are like dreams.
" She is the kind of dream big, she first put forward a high ideal, and then make a plan, how to walk step by step. Even if only one thousandth of the end, she will do her best. " Zhao Xinqi Said his assistant.
is strong for this unattainable ideal, The tough Zhao Xinqi cruelly sent her 9-year-old son to a boarding school in Europe.
"I realize that I can't work with peace of mind, and my children can't get the care they deserve." Zhao Xinqi paused, "I still think that at the time, this is a good way for both of us. I don't do that. There is no today."
▲ Zhao Xinqi said that after sending her children to the dormitory, she left in a hurry, went outside and found that she had forgotten to take the bag, so she had no choice but to bite the bullet and return to the house
to pay the expensive tuition, Zhao Xinqi’s bank Only 25,000 Taiwan dollars (5000 RMB ) are left in the account.
She began to work day and night, sleepless and sleepless.
was afraid of being interrupted. Zhao Xinqi didn't drink water, eat, or go to the toilet when she was working. She didn't take a few fast foods on the workbench until she was too hungry.
She even abandoned all the business of refurbishing old jewellery and devoted herself to the creativity she wanted. For this reason,
resigned his assistant so angry.
" here is all of my life. " she said, pointing to the workbench filled with drafts and wax models.
Zhao Xinqi, who just started her business, is not going well.
had a huge investment in jewelry craftsmanship, but she is a non-premium gemstone without .
In order to raise funds for the purchase of raw materials, Zhao Xinqi broke the ship, and sold the real estate and car left by her mother .
As a result, Zhao Xinqi's works are not cared about because of the high cost.
▲2400 diamonds with a total weight of 310 carats create a fan with vines
▲ emerald bracelet
▲ ruby bow brooch
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was always silent. His father took his daughter’s hand and said:
"I don’t know what kind of difficulties you are experiencing now. I am not an entrepreneur and cannot give you some business advice, but I can tell you that you are in art The achievements on the above have greatly surpassed me. No matter what difficulties you encounter today or what problems you have tomorrow, I want you to always remember that I am proud of you . "
" The words of father make up for all the previous I couldn't get (love) from him. " Zhao Xinqi said.
▲ Three months after Ivanka wore the orchid earrings
designed by Zhao Xinqi, Zhao Xinqi's father passed away, and her business has not improved.
In 2008, Zhao Xinqi, whose funds were fractured and desperate, had already planned to close the studio.
At this moment, advertising godmother Yu Xiang became interested in a ruby side flying butterfly brooch designed by her.
▲Two huge irregular-cut Burmese rubies were surrounded by diamonds of various colors
, but Yu Xiang, who made the verbal purchase promise , disappeared. Zhao Xinqi’s assistant made many phone calls without answering them.
Zhao Xinqi, who was disappointed, said to her assistant: "Forget it, I hate hard sell the most, she should be hiding from me."
▲Zhao Xinqi and Yu Xiang, a pair of friends who have had a difficult time together
3 months later , Yu Xiang appeared in Zhao Xinqi's studio with difficulty.
had a bald head wrapped in a silk scarf, half of his cheek was numb, and he could only speak a single word.
It turned out that Yu Xiang fell into a coma due to a brain tumor ruptured and . He underwent three major operations within 18 days and lay in the intensive care unit for three months.
Zhao Xinqi asked her sadly: "BigAfter recovering from the illness, why bother to come to your door? After all, a piece of jewelry is already irrelevant at this time. "
Yu Xiang replied: " is very important to you because of this. The friendship of "
, Zhao Xinqi still can't forget.
▲As Zhao Xinqi rises to fame, the price of the ruby side fly butterfly brooch must have doubled several times. Sister Yu Xiang is also a good person and repays the favor of
. Zhao Xinqi later took over Yu Xiang’s family heirloom ruby chain refurbishment .
Who would have thought that this hanging stone had been put in the hands of Zhao Xinqi, who was slow and meticulous, for 10 years. After completion, it was a blockbuster.
In 10 years, Zhao Xinqi experimented. After a variety of plans, dismantling, dismantling and making, wax molds were repeatedly carved more than 30 times, to complete this masterpiece- rich and rich ruby peony brooch .
10 years of friendship turned into peonies in full bloom.
Once asked Zhao Xinqi to copy one, "But I can't do it anymore," she said.
"If you consider business, I am the worst businessman. "
▲The ruby peony brooch won the annual London Masterpiece Exhibition Award, and is one of the six awards among nearly 10,000 exhibits
