Sruli Recht

So I found another mentor in the form of designer Sruli Recht.
Just thought I'd share it with y'all.

This is Sruli Recht.
His story goes a little something like this:


Man was born in Jerusalem, Israel.
Man studied Fashion Design at RMIT in Melbourne.
Man moves to and is now based in Reykjavik of Iceland.


Man then goes onto to become an award-winning designer that attracts collaborations and partnerships with the likes of Alexander McQueen (working as a pattern cutter and show-piece maker) as well as becoming head designer and consultant for various fashion labels in Iceland and Australia.


So what's the deal?


Sruli Recht is a true conceptualist. His works revolve around a central idea that is explored, broken down, deconstructed, turned inside out and back again to become the finished product. To an extent, his process is so unique it becomes the finished outcome.

For Recht design is not just about making a beautiful object – his conceptions are based upon resonance of process – ‘Its about making things that people didn’t know they needed, but now cant live without’ – perhaps because they are functional, perhaps because they look nice, but mostly because they provide them with a new way of experiencing things in life. It is about making the aesthetic and functional qualities integral parts of our lives.

 Photo and Quote by Yasmine Hottary for Yatzer


Indeed, the best part about his website is not the final photographs of his creations, it's reading the text about the ideas behind a particular project. Where it started, how it developed, how it got to where it ended. For that, his work is very poetic. It narrates a story, which in my opinion, is what makes all designs unique.


MASKED
IN FLIGHT
An Upcoming Non-Product
For Sleeping and Breathing

Mask A. Functional air-purifying grill format respirator with replaceable-cartridge white N95 filters.

Mask B. Functional full face piece combination twin air-purifying respirators with replaceable-cartridge white N95 filters, light filtering sleep mask,  and sound reduction ear covers.  Secondary inner eye piece prevents pressure on eyes.

Mask C. Functional full face piece combination single grill air-purifying respirator with replaceable-cartridge white N95 filters and light filtering sleep mask.

Mask D. Functional full face piece combination single grill air-purifying respirator with replaceable-cartridge white N95 filters and light filtering sleep mask.  Faceted hinged eye mask lifts for viewing and nasal rest prevents pressure on eyes.

A dedicated photo shoot with Marino Thorlacius for Vision Magazine China March 2010 Edition
Modelled by Guðrún Heiður Ísaksdóttir

Text by Sruli Recht, images from Dezeen

CORRECTIVE BRACE UNIVERSE SERIES PT. 2

Corrective Brace - Universe Series pt2

Self - Australian Wood Stain Leather
Lining - Australian Pigment Cotton
Buckles - Horse and Shoe parts
Lable - Hand Made Stencil
Pneumatics - Porsche

This is a neck brace.

One day in the late 40´s I was mistaken for a woman with tender-humours, and was so justly sectioned.
Being a student of the Arts and Technologikal Designs, it was thought beneficial to my minds state to allow me recreational facilities that which graced the fabrication and forming of small sculptings.

Having a prior predisposition toward that of textiles and its application to the body, I described for my person a series of functional concentrations for threaded social therapude and characteristic division. When needing restraint and quite time, I was placed within my own hands crafts... my brace, this piece, is love. It is solitude and warmth... My own private upper-thoracic exo-womb.

Text and images by Sruli Recht

r¿ng
is
SR118

r¿ng is a 10carat white gold Möbius band with a hand tapped 16gauge internal [female] thread to receive three uncut rough diamonds set individually into screw-in external thread-form propeller claws.
Housed in a 215-piece hand-painted box with threaded lid for safekeeping the 6.86 carat total weight over three different diamonds*. [Black 3.53ct / White 1.88ct / Yellow 1.44ct]

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My love it came, my love it went...

So I plied and so I played
with brevity and breadth, I gauged with breath
and depth
and mined and moulded, and with my arms I then held it.
Three stones.

A big black rock. An average to large white rock. And a smaller yellow rock... The economy of desire was measurable but not immutable

And with all that was left, bent gold around each cleft,
was shaped band and claws from a propeller lent.
Till threaded and golden gleamed this ring thrice revolving.
[Threaded, that is, to keep her mindful of the stone and of me.]
boxed and placed and presented and requested...

“..?”

So now, she chooses which stone to wear - one for work and one for stares.  One for evenings and one for mournings. One for what ever she cares.
And now I too play this game of choice... to add another to the compliment of raw precious diamonds; rough to remind my nights before her, and rare as the days now empty.

Or, to take one away.

Text by Sruli Recht, images from Dezeen