Monday, July 19, 2010

Monday Mini Food Artist: Le Chou Chou Bijoux

This week's Featured Mini Food Artist is Paola of Le Chou Chou Bijoux!

From her shop profile: I am Annapaola Rapacciuolo, a graduate goldsmith and jewellery designer born in Italy near the city of Naples, which has a great tradion of goldsmiths and miniatures (yes, this is the famous city of San Gregorio Armeno, the "street of cribs").

I’ve always been a person with...logistical problems: this pushes me to make “pocket” and reduced to essentials all I have. Jewels are one of the smallest (in terms of size of course) existent art forms. I studied jewelry design at the largest jewelry center in southern Italy (the Tarì of Marcianise), but my first encounter with this world so fascinating was when i was a child during an archaeological exhibition in which I saw the jewels found under the ashes of Vesuvius. They live through not only people but also the most of the works of art and buildings: having a great symbolic and economic value and small size, they were the principal objects that all the people took while were fleeing.

A jewel for me is “portable art”.

She has also been featured in "Daily Accessories" in May, 2010, an Italian fashion magazine.





Stop by and visit her great Etsy shop!

7 comments:

  1. She is a great artist and her creations are absolutely adorable!
    Congrats le chou chou!
    :=D

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  2. Lechouchou's creations are always so lovely!!

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  3. I have a pair of earring from the great artist Lechou....and I am happy!

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  4. Lechouchou's creations are always so sweet and lovely :) so... yummy! :D

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