La guía del diseño en México. Diseño de joyería

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'm Ana Elena Mallet, a curator specializing in design, and I'll be taking you to the studios of prominent designers to explore the state of six design disciplines today. In the Logical Design Guide, we'll be talking about design, and not just artistic jewelry. We'll be talking about designer jewelry, contemporary jewelry, and there's a burgeoning

contemporary jewelry scene in Mexico that offers an artistic vision of unique pieces with a personal language. Several designers are concerned and busy showing that jewelry can be more than just adornment, that it can be a means of expression almost as powerful as sculpture. We're in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood, a mid-20th-century neighborhood that, perhaps in the

last decade, has transformed into a creative epicenter. And now we're going to meet Rhodes. I think it's one of the jewelry companies, brands, and projects in Mexico that's doing the most daring things. Hello, well [Music] Oh, my name is Paulina López. I'm 32 years old. I dedicate myself to the production of jewelry pieces. Well, I'm the creative director of

Rhodes. I approached jewelry in a very organic, playful way, just playing with shapes and objects, collecting materials that helped me create pieces that I later integrated into the body in some way. That's when I decided to study textile and fashion design because at that time it didn't seem to me that studying jewelry in Mexico was a

more professional career. During my studies, I started doing exercises making jewelry pieces with wood. [Music] Little by little, I understood that this was what I wanted to do. There's a very interesting exploration of the body in your jewelry. You don't only understand jewelry as an adornment, but sometimes as an extension of the body, or