David Sandu (Romania)
DAVID SANDU
Designer biography:
David Sandu is the first Romanian artist who made contemporary jewelry his main field of interest and expression. Born in 1974 in Bucharest into a family of artists, David Sandu begins his journey as a jeweler as an apprentice, at the age of 13, in the workshop of master Vlad Gherghiceanu, and later attends the courses of the Bucharest National University of Art. David Sandu participated in numerous exhibitions as an individual artist, gaining International recognition. In 2005, he opened his own designer jewelry gallery, and in 2010 he was appointed Supplier of the Royal House of Romania. In the same year, he founded the first private educational platform in Romania dedicated exclusively to jewelry design – Assamblage Contemporary Jewelry School. Together with Assamblage National Jewelry Association founded in 2015, the two institutions provided a a continuous program of education and cultural events that played a major role in the formation of a new generation of artists and designers. In 2020, he became a Founding Member and Curator of the international event Romania Jewelry Week, alongside Ioana Andrei and Valentina Buzamurga, the largest event in Romania dedicated to the jewelry field.
Collection concept:
We travel. We seek. We collect. We classify. We emphasise. Often times, without clearly foreseeing the value or meaning of some objects, we keep them for a moment when we will understand and analyse what was important in meeting with that idea, form or object. This elegant sterling silver and bronze brooch, part of David Sandu’s Floating Fragments series, embodies that moment.
Brooch signed by DS, sterling silver, bronze, lapis lazuli, meteorite - construction and casting
Brooch signed by DS, sterling silver, bronze, lazulite malachite, abandoned boat bronze chain fragment - construction and casting
Floating Fragments
Bracelet signed by DS, sterling silver, bronze, meteorite, black diamonds - construction and direct casting