Mrs. Obama loves him, Liu Jialing praises him, the all-round talent of the jewelry industry: The all-round talent of the jewelry industry of Ondissen sends love with jewelry, using jewelry to tell the Story of China, the designer who made the art of paper-cutting into jewelry, impressed Michelle's window flower series to inherit the history and culture of the same length of life as the sachet jewelry, he has a different thickness of life

He is Michelle Obama's favorite Chinese jewelry designer;

He has won the Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Designer Awards, and his works have been included in the collections of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and the Municipality of Montpellier, France;

His concept jewelry store, Life of Circle, was selected by Forbes Finance magazine as one of the top 25 stores in the world;

It's the protagonist of our article today— a Chinese jewelry designer from Hong Kong: Ondison.

Chinese jewelry designer: Ondison

<h1>The all-rounder of jewelry</h1>

Ondison, born in 1970. When he was 5 years old, when his mother took him to the Peninsula Hotel for afternoon tea in Hong Kong's busiest neighborhood, he was attracted by the exquisite jewelry of the world in the nearby shops. Since then, jewelry has planted a budding seed in his heart.

However, his parents wanted him to become a pure artist, so they let him study Western painting, sculpture, ceramics, etc., and sent him to France and Canada to study art and business administration.

Ondison's "Peach Blossom Joke" is a work with the theme of the dream of the Red Chamber scene

After graduation, he wanted to be a director, but he found that he was not suitable for collective creation, and he preferred to indulge in his own world. Later, he began to study photography, but after all, photography was only a flat art, and could not better interpret his innermost thoughts.

Just when he was struggling to find the right medium to express his inner thoughts, jewelry design brought him hope...

Emerald chicken wing wood bracelet

In the early 1990s, Ondison began to study jewelry design in New York and London.

After completing his studies, he returned to Hong Kong and opened his first solo jewelry exhibition, which was widely praised by customers for his unique design. The success of this jewelry exhibition has made him more determined in his jewelry design path.

Since 1995, Ondison has been designing haute couture jewelry for clients who appreciate him; in 2000, he founded his own concept jewelry store, Life of Circle; and in 2007, he founded yewn, a fine jewelry brand.

Fine Jewelry Brand - YEWN

<h1>Sending love with jewelry, telling the story of China with jewelry</h1>

Ondison received a Western education from childhood to his first year of college, and later studied and worked abroad, such a growth experience seems to have nothing to do with labels such as "traditional" and "Chinese", but in his bones he loves China's traditional culture and history.

He has loved to study The history of China since he was a child, and he believes that China's traditional folk art is the accumulation of the wisdom and experience of the ancients and the condensation of China's long history.

Gardenia bracelet

Drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese culture, he integrated Chinese elements into jewelry design, and designed a series of jewelry works with Chinese characteristics with window flowers, paper cuts, sachets, ruyi locks, etc.

He continued to pass on China's traditional culture in the form of jewelry, using jewelry to tell the story of Traditional Chinese culture.

<h1>A designer who makes the art of paper-cutting into jewelry</h1>

Ondison said: "Chinese hand is the most dexterous in the world, and no craft cannot be made Chinese." "As one of the oldest traditional folk arts in China, paper-cutting has a history of more than 1,000 years.

In today's era when the art of paper-cutting is slowly disappearing, it is extremely rare to use jewelry to express the form of paper-cutting.

Drawing inspiration from the traditional culture of paper-cutting, Ondison replaces the real objects expressed in the flat paper-cut pattern with diamonds and 18K white gold, and creates a three-dimensional silhouette that can be worn on the basis of retaining the original shape of the paper-cutting. It makes the ordinary paper-cutting art a piece of art that can be worn, and the traditional Chinese folk art is spread through jewelry.

Peony paper-cut series

The Peony Paper-Cut Series is one of Ondison's most proud works. The entire collection is carved from 18K gold inlaid with diamonds, and the hollow technique delicately outlines the flexible posture of the peony petals, thus showing the ingenuity of folk paper-cutting techniques. The peony flowers become more delicate and attractive against the background of brilliant diamonds, which is pitiful.

Chrysanthemum paper cut series

Chrysanthemums are known as longevity flowers and are a very commonly used pattern in paper-cutting art. Ondison's chrysanthemum-themed work is elegant in form and realistic in shape, using abstract techniques to express the lines of chrysanthemum petals, thus creating a distinctive side of chrysanthemums.

<h1>Impress Michelle's windowflower collection</h1>

Ondison's window flower series is inspired by a book called "Chinese Window Flower Design", the author of this book is a foreigner, because he is addicted to the traditional Chinese window flower art, spent nearly 10 years traveling all over China, collecting more than 1,000 different window flower styles to complete this book.

《Chinese Window Flower Design》

While Ondison was touched by the persistent spirit of the foreign author, a more thought-provoking question came to his mind, why did Chinese ignore the seemingly common art of window flowers, but foreigners cherished it more?

Therefore, he decided to use his best jewelry to reinterpret the traditional window flower art belonging to China.

In ancient China, most of the windows were decorated with wooden carved window flowers, and the design theme was mainly based on auspicious patterns. Therefore, Ondison chose several of the more common window patterns and integrated them into the design of jewelry. For example: Fushou window flower, Xiangyun window flower and so on.

Because his designs are not only ingenious, but also full of strong Chinese characteristics, his window flower collection of jewelry was influenced by former American First Lady Michelle. Obama's favor.

In 2011, when Michelle Obama visited the United Kingdom, she wore the "Yewn" jade ruyi window flower ring on the index finger of her left hand, which attracted the attention of the global media, and this ring is known as obama ring.

Mrs. Obama with "Yewn" Emerald Ruyi Window Flower Ring

However, his exploration of the window flower series did not stop there, and with the continuous enrichment of his experience, he had a deeper understanding of the window flower series.

He also launched a new "Window • Flower" series, drawing inspiration from classical Chinese garden art, combined with the architectural aesthetic concept of the unity of heaven and man in China, and embedded natural landscapes such as landscape gardens on jewelry designs.

Ondison designed the shapes of flowers, insects and other plants and animals on the hollowed-out square straps, thus creating a feeling that the courtyard can be viewed through the panes.

In this collection, the most ingenious design is the outline of the ring, the four sides of the ring wall are like ancient flower windows, and the hollow pattern on the ring wall imitates the rich decorative pattern on the pane.

To make the ring easier to wear, Ondissen has rounded corners on the edges of the band wall, and a rounded inner wall is specially made on the inside of the band to fit the contours of the fingers.

This salamander-themed window flower ring features salamanders and lotus flowers on the bandwing wall. The salamander is crafted from black and white gold plating, studded with diamonds and embellished with Tsavray. A small claw of the salamander rests gently on the emerald-encrusted lotus, and its slender tail hangs naturally on the side of the ring wall, full of vitality. The ring wall is surrounded by black diamonds, making the entire ring more prominent in the classical beauty of China.

This bee-themed window flower ring features black and yellow diamonds inlaid with bees, and the flowers are made of red coral, as if the bees smell the fragrance of the flowers are collecting honey, and the carving is exquisite.

<h1>Sachet jewelry that inherits history and culture</h1>

Ondison knows that it is better to imitate Western works than to create its own brand characteristics. Therefore, most of his design inspiration comes from traditional Chinese culture, and his works condense Chinese history. One of the most representative is his "Sachets" series.

In ancient China, the sachet had the effect of refreshing, repelling insects and warding off evil spirits, and was a kind of item that was both practical and decorative. From the tang dynasty onwards, whether it was going out or hunting, the nobles of the imperial palace would carry it with them and became a must-have for daily life.

Drawing inspiration from sachets with deep cultural connotations, Ondison has integrated the shape and function of sachets into the design of modern jewelry to create a very distinctive "Golden Sachet" series.

His sachet collection, following the graphic design of classical sachets, preserves the original function of the sachet and allows it to continue to be passed on in the form of jewelry.

He designed a small box above the ring, inlaid with various colored treasures for placing spices. When worn, the quiet aroma will make the wearer feel comfortable. It is a practical and beautiful design.

<h1>The same length of life, he has a different thickness of life</h1>

In addition to jewelry design, he has not given up on his diverse artistic creations, and in his spare time, he enjoys collecting antiques and photography, participating in more than a dozen group art exhibitions around the world, holding seven solo exhibitions, and publishing several personal concept photography collections.

Photography

Under his efforts, he achieved achievements that were unattainable to ordinary people.

He became the creative director of Yang LanLan's fine jewelry brand, and his works won the favor of many big stars at home and abroad, such as Liu Jialing and Yu Wenle, and he was also invited to participate in the British Antique Jewelry Exhibition...

Today, in business, Ondison is the head of the Life of Circle and NEWN brands. In life, married to the actress Jiang Yi, who has a perfect body and appearance, has a double harvest in love and career, and is a winner in life.

Ondison and his wife Jiang Yi

Mr J said:

Integrating the beauty of traditional Chinese culture into the modern aesthetic, such jewelry is not only a beautiful piece of jewelry, but also a work of art worth spending time to taste.

When China's unique traditional cultures such as paper-cutting, window flowers, and sachets are transformed into art that can be worn, the beauty of China is full of five thousand years of cultural precipitation.

Traditional, but also the world.

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