Verena Schreppel

My aim in design is to create objects beyond their function, products that stimulate our senses and reflect humanity. I love to play with sensuality in textures and poetry in concepts. I believe that the human need lies beyond basic commodity, beyond visual charms; products are there to be used, to be touched and handled. Design is communication, reflecting the joy of life.

 

Biography: Verena Schreppel specialises in jewellery and product design with a poetic, conceptual approach and a fine sense for structures. She was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg and at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid at the faculty of fine arts.


She was trained by and worked for the Czech glass artist Jan Adam, gained experience at the design department of Peter Schmidt Studios, Hamburg and joined the team at Studio Dror in New York in 2005, before founding Studio Verena Schreppel.

 

She began the development of her unique jewellery designs during her studies. She enjoys working with various transformations of material in order to create new aesthetics.

In 2010 she began to focus on her jewellery collection, working on product design projects and enjoying Berlin as the new location of her studio.

Doppelripp

The design of the cutlery singlet introduces sensuality in the act of eating. Understanding the meal as a synergetic moment - scent, taste, see, touch, hear –, the quality of touching has been amputated, since our everyday rituals have grown to be dominated by visual amenities.

 

Our modern north/mid European cutleries are smooth and round, also beautiful, but making you forget the feel for the haptic quality – your sense of touch. To create the link of awareness was to find a structure that already has a relation with the skin – fabric. 

After test castings of different structures, the Doppelripp fabric – a fine knitted fabric, often used in the underwear industry – combined the highest haptic and visual quality to be used as handles for the cutlery design.

 

The shape of the cutlery with a soft formal connection between handle and functional top, are designed to let the fabric spread over the surface and build a strong texture.

The prototype of the cutlery Singlet is made of brass silver plated.
The prototype of the cup is made of porcelain.