Frazer and Haws, the leading brand in silverwork, has organized the Joint-Art Initiative that celebrates Fine Art and Silverware craft exclusive with pieces created in collaboration of Artists, Sculptors, Ceramists and more.
For 25 years of its 150 years in making silverware and jewellery, Frazer And Haws has experimented with its forms like no other crafts unit. It has led the re-orientation of the hand-made silverware and jewellery to its continuous demand by re- interpreting skill and design. To lean further on their legacy of beloved silverwork and its art, Frazer and Haws has integrated the Joint-Art Initiative.
The Frazer and Haws Joint-Art Initiative is a creative venture to find balance between Fine Arts and Silverware craft. Here, the British brand harmonizes the creations of renowned artists across the world with meticulous silverwork that bench the brand’s landmark.
The concept is “building-upon-a-building’ – crafting its traditional silver-making skills around an original art-piece. The semblance of co-existing has been shown beautifully where one whole art piece is combined with another whole art piece. Hence, two wholes make a whole.
Inspired by that and the beauty of Kashmir, Frazer and Haws introduces the VALLEY Series Silverwork designed around original pieces by award-winning artists.
- Show Piece Walnut Tree by Frazer And Haws
and Amsterdam-based Dutch Artist, Astri Blokbergen, is an incredible silver tree, caste out of a mold-creation by Blockbergen who is renowned for her Creation of Trees in bronze. The Walnut Tree is Astri’s first collaborative project with an Indian workshop where she specially designed at the Frazer and Haws studio. Its intricacy of details and contemporary craftsmanship makes it for one of the most astounding pieces in silverware art.
- Vase Chinar Blue by Frazer And Haws
is a captivating formation of Chinar tree branches in silver and abstract lines that spread out two dimensionally. The tree leaves have been gilded in 24 carat gold while the piece stands shining in an open-faced silver cup. It’s set within a stunning blue pottery done by Padma-Shree Awardee and Ceramist, Shri B.R. Pandit from Mumbai. The Chinar Blue is a Collector’s piece harmonizing silverwork and pottery from esteemed artists.
- Vase Rising Lilly by Frazer And Haws
is a glorious centrepiece set on a curved silver plate with circular wave-shapes pierced in it. These piercings encourage the decoration of fresh flowers to adorn the silver-dipped lily. Once again, the inset ceramic pot has been designed by Shri. B.R. Pandit. In its true essence, The Rising Lilly is an artist’s vision of a Vase that covers ‘Sea to Pinnacle’ flashing silver and ceramic.
- Vase Valley Wide by Frazer and Haws
is a collaborative project with Award-winning Sculptor from Udaipur, Shri Lallan Singh. This joint collaboration is a Fine Collection Piece shaped in a double-mouthed two-side open silver loop tube resting on a stone. The tube with its delicately marked lines and mirror finish centers within the mouth of Lallan Singh’s white stone sculpture. Frazer And Haws at its best in craft, design, and collaborative-art is this.
- Art Piece Lady Gorgeous by Frazer and Haws
A perfectly formed torso of a woman crafted from actual bolts by Gurgaon-based Artist Babla Seeth and silver-plated by Frazer And Haws, Lady Gorgeous sits on a Burma Teakwood wrapped in ropes of jute. The silver-plated lines of the figurine are lyrical; depicting the immense strength and pride along with a subtle poignancy in her oblivion. This joint collaboration between F&H and Seeth is a strong, dominating silver art piece that has garnered a poetic muse.
- Art Piece On-The-Sikka by Frazer And Haws
On-The-Sikka is an artistic showpiece of a world raised on money; eight silver sikkas lift up the lingam-styled transparent resin piece as solid silver branches emerge from its top end. Within the centre of the resin is the stemless tree trunk that contains a brass spine of all ‘desires and dreams’. The piece is attractive for its strong conceptualizing and incorporation of silver so fluently.
Just like the past 25 years has been gilding, Frazer and Haws continues the art of expressing Indian culture through its millennium of silverware crafts and designs.
