(Houston) — Melissa Borrell introduces the newest concept in the globally recognized “Pop-Out Jewelry” collection at the New York International Gift Fair from August 17-22 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Her booth will be located in the Accent on Design section of the fair.
The new Pop-UP pendant and earrings come still attached to the surrounding metal from which they are cut. Like the other designs in the Pop-Out series, Pop-UP jewelry comes with a silver chain or earring hooks needed to make the shapes into a pendant or earrings. The new feature of the Pop-UP jewelry is that you can bend the “petals” of the design to make the piece three-dimensional.
“It’s really fun to get people involved in the process of making the jewelry. By allowing people to form the piece and make decisions about how to bend the parts I want to make them think about the transformation that happens when a three-dimensional form is made from a flat sheet and how that happens,” she said. “In my work I’ve always been interested in the connection between two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional forms. Both the original Pop-Out Jewelry and the new Pop-UP pendant and earrings are a way for me to show other people how our perception of a shape is different depending on whether we view it as a drawing or as a sculpture.”
Melissa Borrell Design is introducing a new line of Pop-Out Winter Decorations at the NYIGF including a Pop-Out Forest and Pop-Out Snowflakes for the holiday season. In addition, the company will be showcasing new additions to the Pop-Out Collection including Garden Earrings, Starburst Earrings, Flower Pendant and Earring Set, and Flower Mini Pop-Out Earrings.
Self-taught as a jewelry designer, Melissa Borrell has gained national and international popularity in design circles and has developed a following of committed and passionate collectors. She opened her studio in San Francisco in 1998, creating high end art jewelry before launching the Pop-Out Jewelry collection in 2007. Her jewelry pieces, both handmade and production pieces, can best be described as “wearable art”.
Stores around the globe are featuring Borrell’s designs, most notably, the MoMA Design stores in New York and Japan, the SFMOMA MuseumStore, the Whitney Museum of Art, DC, the Hirshhorn Museum at the Smithsonian Institute, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and museum shops and design stores reaching as far as Puerto Rico, Canada and Australia.
For more information on Melissa Borrell and her designs, please visit www.melissaborrell.com.
