Today Korcula is dwarfed by the presence of Sea Cloud 2 – an amazing boat, and I thought you might be interested in a little of her design and sailing history.
The Sea Cloud II was built as a sister ship to the original Sea Cloud that was built in 1931 by the Krupp family at their shipyard in Kiel. The huge and impressive four masted vessel was commissioned by one of Wall Streets wealthiest traders, a Mr E.F. Hutton. Mrs Hutton, herself a successful business woman, designed the luxury yacht.
Please see www.seacloud.com if you would like to read more about these amazing vessels.
Work on Sea Cloud II was completed in 2001, combining ‘ the timeless elegance of windjammers of past with the highest safety standards and the luxurious comfort of modern cruise ships’. You can take a tour of her cabins on the website and learn more about her majestic beauty there.
The Sea Cloud yachting philosophy is as follows;
Y achting
A mbience
C haracter
H ospitality
T radition
Even if you are not interesting in sailing I am sure you will agree that the Sea Cloud is an impressive vessel. She and her sister ships visit Korcula five or six times during our summer season. Each ship carries 60 passengers from all over the world, we wish them a happy journey to their next port of call.
It is my pleasure to welcome Helen Bogun of Helz-Design, http://helz-design.com/ as a guest to our blog site.
Helen is a graphic designer based in Berlin and has written a great piece about creativity for us;
LET FANTASY IN
Do we really lose our creativity when we get older?
I really doubt this, but many of my friends claim that it is exactly this way.
Remember the good old days being a little child just taking a colorful pencil or a brush and your watercolors and just starting to paint?
Or the feeling of finger painting colors on your skin?
Very sensual experiences I know, and very important.
And these experiences can still offer great benefits, even if you have passed the twenty year mark!
Just give it a chance, your children will love you for it.
We usually rip ourselves away from dealing with paints, wool, fabrics, modeling clay and other stuff. We think it is no longer appropriate because we are adults.
Adults don’t do that.
No way.
We also tend to think that creativity is something for real artists.
We are not artists; at least that is what we have been told.
And that makes us think that we lost our creativity while growing up.
We never lost it and we will never lose it.
Actually you need to be creative many times a day, when solving a problem, for example.
Only a creative mind is able to solve problems.
Being creative just means to give your fantasy a chance to manage the process, to allow your mind to think in a way you have never thought before. See things from a different angle.
Creativity does not mean to re-invent the wheel, just to find a different way to deal with it.
Think about the jewelry of Seba Dizajn. Some of us might think, that it is simple silver mixed with some gems. It is more; it is the imagination & creativity behind it. The imagination that is able to create something new out of simple and well-known things.
I know you can do it too.
You can see the flower in the colors you are painting.
You can see the bread in the flour you are putting in the bowl.
You can see the sweater in the wool you are going to knit.
Just take a brush, remember the child you have been and start painting.
Creativity is in each of us.
It makes live worth living, but it also means to step aside from the used path in life.
This may require stepping out of your comfort zone and feeling insecure, but this insecurity can be overcome.
Just do it!
Step aside, and open the door to a new adventure in life.
Experiment with anything you can get – clay, colors, wool even the computer …
Wow! I have been doing some research on jewellery trends and stumbled across this fantastic pair of boots on http://njn.typepad.com/10x/ – a jewellery trends blog.
Jeweller and gemologist Susan Eisen was commissioned to work on this special edition pair of Tony Lama boots. 100 diamonds have been added to the boots and they feature & they feature 14-karat gold buckles. The boots celebrate 100 years of Tony Lama boot making – fantastic!
The detail worked into the leather reminds me of filigree and I can see a strong connection between the jeweller and boot making. Being the curious sort I had to head over to Tony Lama Boots (tonylama.com) and learn some more, beautiful – perfect for a Korcula winter…..
It brings me joy to see traditional skills & crafts being utilised and preserved for future generations. I have been looking into the Seba families jeweller heritage and can’t wait for my father-in-law to return to Korcula and share some of his memories of jewellery making with us (& you).
There is a great story about Seba jewellers making a crown for the King of Serbia – I am looking for a copy of this photo at the moment and look forward to sharing it with you in a future post.
In the mean time if you are interested in seeing any of Seba designed jewellery please head over to our facebook page, www.facebookcom/SebaDizajn
Living in a medieval city we are surrounded by sources of inspiration for new designs for our filigree jewellery – today we are looking at our local architecture and stone carving.
I can imagine the stone motif below making a very pretty filigree pendant.
Korcula is a fantastic place to live, we are surrounded by some of the clearest sea you could imagine and the sun shines almost daily during the summer months.
We are currently working and living within the walls of the medieval old town, (Stari Grad), the town walls were built in the 14th century and it is said that 3,000 people used to live within these walls. Today approximately 250 people live in the old town and it is very hard to imagine an additional 2,700 of us living here.
I have been warned many times that I will find the winter very long here, (this will be my first full winter in Korcula) with almost all of the shops, cafes and restaurants closed and very few visitors to the island, Korcula becomes a small ghost town. I see the winter months as a great time for us to focus on new designs and create new stock for the 2012 season. I will let you know how I feel about Korcula winter again when January rolls around!
We currently have at least three options of how the next piece of filigree from Seba Dizajn can be completed.
I wonder if Adolf has jewellers block?
I think he has jewellers overload, too many good ideas tumbling for space in his head, here are a couple design of options.
OPTIONS 1 & 2 (the left & right sides are different here)
OPTION 3
OPTION 1 – (left first photo)
Two additional pieces of turquoise to be used on each side of the necklace to complement turquoise centrepiece.
OPTION 2 – (right side first photo)
No additional pieces of turquoise used on either side of finished necklace.
OPTION 3
A piece of turquoise used on either side of the centrepiece –
(nb. All our filigree jewellery is made from Silver – the ‘gold’ effect in the photos is from the heat used to shape & weld the filigree pieces together, the completed necklace will be polished silver.)
We would love to hear your thoughts on these options – or feel free to suggest some alternative options.
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