Maria Paltin - Romania
Maria Paltin
Designer biography:
I have always made jewelry, in my childhood I used to play with copper wire and small beads that I had stolen from my mom’s jewelry box. Later, after I graduated from the Ion Mincu architecture university, with the materials I had left from the layout, I started making with a dear friend plexiglass jewelry. That period of time was very important for my journey. I could apply the esthetics learned in college so that I could enter the wonderful world of contemporary jewelry. Some years ago I can say porcelain found me, and it was an epiphany. The moment I touched the wet clay, I knew this was my journey. I like to seek inspiration in the living world around me, but also in the city textures and lights.
Collection concept:
B r o k e n B l o o m
These pieces draw from architectural deconstruction, where stability is questioned and form is unsettled from within. Here, the body of the object becomes a site of tension: between framework and erosion, assembly and disintegration. The ornamental becomes structural, and the structure begins to dissolve. There is no clear moment of ruin—only a slow undoing. The pieces exist in a suspended state, where construction and collapse are indistinguishable, where control is quietly overtaken by something that cannot be contained. Structure is fragmented, hierarchy is destabilized, and cohesion is replaced by friction. These pieces do not resolve into harmony; instead, they remain in a state of quiet conflict, where growth and decay, control and disorder, are held in balance.
