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LOTOCOHO is a label of creation that translates sign and symbols, landscapes into jewelry using geometry. LOTOCOHO generates stories and relationships betw e e n p e o p l e t h r o u g h l a n d s c a p e s m a d e i n t o j e w e l r y , going beyond the differences between cultures, lang u a g e s a n d r e l i g i o n s . LOTOCOHO is a system of Infinite design for many users, from people to animals, based on an idea that relates the natural and the artificial. They are committed to artisanal production implementing current technological means and forcing the synergies between industries-forms of production, relying on the content and design. This relates them to the beginning of human culture through “ornamental” objects, linking past, present and future. Over the years, they have tried to decipher the groups of symbols that revolve around “gastronomic”, “ambient”, “architectural” and “artistic” languages which is then applied to different aspects of design. In their previous and main collection, Ergonomic Territories, they strive to translate psychogeographic territories like mountains and their tiniest entities, materials (mostly “precious”) in a day-to-day language through geometry. Giving the geometry an infinite application, just as a word can have many meanings.
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Anna and Jorge come from different backgrounds, different cultures, but have a common ground, a common language... “After having studied watches, we must now study the clouds.” Karl Popper Anna Tomich Hockensmith is from Houston ,TexasUSA, but was born in London, UK. When she was 13 years old she went to live in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. At 16 she moved to Quito, Ecuador. When she turned 18 she decided to follow her mother’s footsteps and learn Interior Design in the IED Madrid, Spain. Today, she focuses all her energy toward the translation of signs in symbols. A great journey, Design. Jorge López Conde is from Huesca, PyreneesSpain; “Almost” architect, “almost” designer, “almost” photographer... participates in various studios founded with Luis Úrculo (LUJO), Luis Díaz Mauriño and Julián López Galán (www.lopezgalan.com). He has collaborated with Herzog&deMeuron, Cero9/ AMID, FloresPrats, Andres Jaque Architects, among others. He has been an investigator of “expiry” in the masters in IED European Design Labs. His work has been published in a number of specialized publications in Architecture, Photography and Design. Today, he is the art director of the most important clubs/record labels of Madrid and other institutions: Madrid Cityhall, La Casa Encendida, Ministry of Culture, etc... and his objective is to be able to create journeys or translations between all of these signs to “almost” understand our present, past, future context, natural or artificial. Their whole life they have consciously and subconsciously searched for the different stories linking people or villages to the surrounding mountains through legends. They know dedicate their lives to the research and storytelling of these stories through their designs. LOTOCOHO now counts on a close-knit team spread out internationally, which consist of 2 directors, Anna Tomich & Jorge Lopez Conde, and their team of sales agents, financial and strategic directors, press reps and producers in Madrid, Galicia, Valencia, Paris, Lyon, Amsterdam, Thailand and USA.
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In previous collections we have developed a certain way of doing things. SS13 - AW13 “Ergonomic Territories” “World Peaks” “Lot of Sol”
We have worked with translation and the union of landscapes and its associated stories. In these new collections, in these new steps, in these new series of investigations, we are extending the frame and concreting the point of view. We are developing new themes such as the composition of landscapes of abstraction between the centuries and relate these constructions with visual and spatial perceptions. Translations of shapes into signs/emblems, and from emblems to symbols. New ways of writing. We would like to present the pieces as a period of time to be experienced/experimented, as an unlimited exchange, a state of encounter between centuries and theories, a point on a line. Particular experiences with moments of subjectivity: where the atoms become the world. We propose to develop concepts that aim to relate back to the users, to rethink their “Form” that turn into “Formations” and the “History” attached to it: to reconstruct itself through the interpretation of the person who wears it. A reconstruction of the relationship between subject and object history. A negotiation with the comprehensible. An itinerary on different maps:
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Alhambra ”My water is melted beads, that you see running on ice (keep that to a great wonder)” (Ibn Zamrak, 1333 - 1393) We create a conversation between the geometrical constructions of the Alhambra (Islamic Art) with the Ulm School. We are describing generated geometric spaces applied to the body, a staging of different discourses: operative realism. Representing their reality applied to the body. To function like a jewel and show itself off, giving itself the use of an aesthetic object like geometric research of the strategists of the Alhambra and Ulm. The factor of production, the economic and the symbolic is at stake as Maldonado says. Plastic quality vs operational relevance: Ornamentation as a result of the mathematical Arab – Ulm research whose aim was to break the two-dimensional space: in Islamic architecture, the space is never separated from the shape. It is not the materialization of the abstract Euclide coordenates which provides a framework where the “forms-formalization” are “located”. The space is defined by the contours-and-methods- that are found in it. Looking for the link between the meanings of the word ma´na: meaning and intangible. Representing a space between two complementary moments in the history of geometry and spatial analysis, developing some union simulations. The geometrical figures and numbers which are not only what they quantitatively appear: they have a symbolic aspect that, far from being imaginary, is as much a part of reality as it is to its material side. The body becomes prosthetic, as Maldonado said. And the study of semiotics...
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”My water is melted beads, that you see running on ice (keep that to a great wonder)” (Ibn Zamrak, 1333 - 1393)
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Ergonomic Territories is an infinite system of creation. Comprised of an idea that relates nature, artificial and abstract in a constant learning game. It is a field of opportunities where the act of derivative use in enjoyment causes expertise in stories accumulated trapped about “mountains” or its most basic geological structures (diamond-rocks). Decontextualized landscapes are built in scale and multiplied in knowledge. The mountains contain stories not seen. We have extended the collection “Ergonomic Territories Reviewood” developing it in wood.70% handmade. Painted and finished by hand.
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Visions & Paradox ”Zero weight, infinite light: Things lie just like your pictures.” (Le Ricolais, 1894 - 1977) The construction of a theory of nostalgia on visual perversions. Modifying your vision and constructive paradoxes of the method. A method of description of three-dimensional objects that transports the scope of two dimensions: from line to volume or from volume to line, in this way resolving an issue that art of all ages. Perceptual hints that are provided by both eyes ... understanding depth as of the object perpendicular to the given surface. Physiological or psychological?? The isometric projection arises in the industrial revolution in Great Britain (19 century) in order to present complex machinery designs in a way that could facilitate mass production. (Paradox: Modernity as if in ruins, the offense of the eternal present.) Scientific perspective methods are accurate to the observer, while the isometric projection is with respect to the observed object. But neither the drawing methods nor the one using isometric perspective, are able to express the complex truth, intact, the one that really exists. The two begin to break down where the visual and the volumetric converge. These pieces exist in a dimension between two worlds, illusory, in the country that’s not completely flat, where multiple, and even contradictory, viewpoints can exist simultaneously without destroying the whole structure. We leave you with the list of axioms: “It is clear that the drawing of a person is not a person, but the drawing of a line is a line.” The drawing of a line without being a line. “Transmitting the form without the space” Transmit the space without form.
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”Marble used to be a bird at one time; the gold, calls; the crystal, air or tear. Are they crying for their loss of breath? Aren’t they the memories of themselves and stopped they are observed forever?”
Tribute to Enrique Morente and his red fortress La Alhambra through the poem by María Zambrano: “Self-absorbed Water”
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Lotocoho Marina Abramovic
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http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/965 It is an honor to present our first collaboration with someone we have admired for many years and whom we consider to be a reference in the Art world. We received the invitation from Marina Abramovic; she was so thrilled by our pieces, she wanted to meet us. It was a pleasure and an honor. From now on, Marina will wear 3 jewels from our collection. The Teide volcano brooch, Ring A-VII Solid and Earrings P-VII. The picture was made after the representation of the Opera: The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
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http://www.esperanzaspalding.com/ Esperanza Spalding, an American jazz bassist, cellist and singer, will be wearing LOTOCOHO on her next tour this Autumn 2013 in Europe. She has won three Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 53rd Grammy Awards, making her the first jazz artist to win the award.
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http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/ Special ring created for the 166th Birthday of the Architectural Association in London. We took the facade of the old, original AA building and translated/abstracted it into a 2D geometric pattern.
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http://www.amlul.com/ Gala Gonzalez is a Spanish socialite, blogger, fashion designer and DJ. She is the niece of Spanish designer Adolfo DomĂnguez and became popular for her fashion blog and her influence in the industry due to her style and photographs. LOTOCOHO created Gala’s album cover and image for her 2013 launch for Warner Music Spain.
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http://www.loewe.com/ For us it is a real pleasure to see our pieces in the wonderful campaign for Loewe with our friend Tina Loves (www.tinaloves.com). Tina poses with LOTOCOHO’s A-III Solid ring for Loewe’s campaign for their newest Leo bag.
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http://www.hayonstudio.com/home.php This is the A- III ring, one of the very first LOTOCOHO pieces. It was hand made in the very same workshop of the jeweller of Jaime Hayon Studio in Treviso, Italy, 2010.
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http://www.whosnext.com/ The most important event in fashion within the haute couture week in Paris, has selected out of 4.000 other brands, LOTOCOHO to be a part of the fair and the catwalk, one of the most important runways/shows. LOTOCOHO also appears in a special feature in the general catalogue. We are very happy with this reception in Paris .
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http://www.joaquintrias.com/ The winner of the Elle and Telva award 2011 and Spanish couturier with the most international projection, Joaquin Trias, has come to LOTOCOHO to create a special collection for his presentation in Paris Fashion Week 2011 at the Yvonne Lambert Gallery in the heart of the Marais.
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http://www.vogue.es/desfiles/otono-invierno-2011-2012-madrid-belen-vidal/6089
Duccio, Van Eyck, Carpaccio, Lucas Cranach, D端rer, Caravaggio, Rubens, Frans Hals, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Kirchner, Mondrian, Klee, Hopper, Rauschenberg ... These are just some of the great masters of art history whose works are on display at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. LOTOCOHO has created a special Vesuvius necklace based on one of the paintings in their main collection, as well as, vases inspired in the still lifes of Morandi.
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Acknowledgements Special thanks to our great family: Sandy-John, Paz-Gloria-Julián, Lola Gavarrón, Pablo Hijar, Hunter Vigneault, Diana Domingo, Eduardo López, Damian Schwartz, Ingrid Garcia Jonsson, Nelson Wilmotte, Javi Senz, Marta Araujo, Blanca Araujo, Kayoko Everhart, Janka Sedikova, Pablo Martín Palomeque, Ana Giral Castillo, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Luishock Martínez, Pablo Cimadevila, Luis Úrculo, Paloma Uriel, Erick Valdivieso, Lidia Mariotti, Ruben Tomás, Elisa Pérez, Valentina Tomás, Jessica García, Jose Villalobos, Sara Sola, Joaquin Diaz, Elin Olafsdottir, Francisco Polo, Markus Herchet, Bruno Gimeno, Beni Redrum, Miguel Angel, Sara Martinez, Sara Cabrera, Juanpe Sanz, Solita, Patricia Flórez, Daniel Fernández, Natalia Salas, Graça Ramos, Marisa Santamaría, Carlos Barrabés, Jaime Hayón, Marina Abramovic...
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