Presentation field for nationwide reward for Miss Universe 2017

Having beforehand labored for Jack Freedman Jewellers, Johan Neill of Knysna Woodworkers was commissioned once more, this time to design and produce an uncommon and unique presentation field for the Miss Universe 2017 Nationwide Present Showcase which A discreet worldwide might be auctioned off for charity. The viewers

Along with Miss South Africa Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters and Howard Furrier of Jack Friedman Jewelers (grandson of Jack Friedman), proudly holding the Nationwide Present – a shocking piece of jewelery impressed by Namaqualand Daisies, fantastically Proven right here in its presentation field.

Johan explains the imaginative and prescient behind the field.

My mandate was for the field to be within the form of Africa and, if potential, to signify the devastating Nisna hearth on June 7, 2017. Howard Furrier gave me some specs of what he wished, but additionally gave me artistic license. Craft it into one thing completely distinctive.

In selecting the wooden, it was this specific piece of oak that caught my consideration, as did how the grain and cracks fell into the wooden. To me the cracks signify hearth, and the silver I used within the cracks represents the spirit of the Knysna neighborhood because it rises from the ashes to create one thing higher. It was this piece of an ideal tree that was almost burnt to coal that I replanted and hand crafted right into a presentation field that was used for the Nationwide Present.

“A really emotional piece of artwork for me,” says Miss South Africa Demi Lee. “She is an area Backyard Route woman from Sedgefield, a neighboring city of Knysna, and we’re all very happy with her.”

What makes this field so particular is that it was one of many oak bushes planted by college kids in Knysna City throughout Queen Victoria’s Jubilee on the twenty fourth.^Th Might 1887.

Nationwide reward – daisies of Africa

The jewelery piece was designed by Jack Friedman’s staff in collaboration with Demi Lee, options South African gold and diamonds and was impressed by considered one of our nation’s pure wonders, the Nama Koland Daisies. This yr’s giveaway is to signify the perfect of South Africa’s pure assets, together with its extremely gifted and artistic folks.

‘TATA’ is engraved on the stable floor of 18 carat gold, which reads “The best glory of life is rarely to fall, however to rise at any time when we fall.” A quote from the late Nelson Mandela. That claims all of it.

The Miss Universe 2017 pageant might be held on November 26, 2017.

Photographs courtesy of Jack Friedman Jewelers.

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