MCP || By: Maria Christina Papaleontiou jewellery
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Maria Christina Papaleontiou (b. 12/12/1983, Nicosia, Cyprus) graduated from The English School, Nicosia in 2002 and went on to the University of Nottingham where she gained a Bachelor in Architecture in 2005. During her studies she was awarded a University of Nottingham scholarship and was selected to attend the Architectural Heritage: Perspectives on Town Development in the Historic Centre of Riga (2003), a two week seminar, alongside an international array of architecture students.In 2005-2006 she was employed by Studio 75, an architecture office in Athens. While there, she worked on a breadth of projects, of ranging scale, varying from interior design to urban planning, including the winning proposal for the renovation of the National Theatre of Greece.In 2006 she returned to the University of Nottingham and in July 2008 graduated from the Diploma in Architecture course with Merit, thus gaining the RIBA Part II. Her final Diploma project focused on the relationship between food and architecture in Nicosias inner walled city.From very early on she has had a travellers disposition, journeying throughout Europe but also over continents and oceans, exercising her flair in photography, with Brazil as her latest pit stop in 2007.Currently she is one half of Dear ARCHITECTS, who took part in the London Festival of Architecture in July 2008, as well as were selected by Sir Peter Cook to represent Cyprus in the Venice Architectural Biennale in September 2008, with the project Make Souvla Not War !. [ http://DearARCHITECTS.blogspot.com ]In October 2008 she relocated to London, where she undertook an internship with DMD Architects [April-August 2009] and is currently looking for a job as a Part II Architectural Assistant, as well as realising her passion in Jewellery Design by creating a range using laser cut wood [MCP].
Maria Christina Papaleontiou
(b. 12/12/1983, Nicosia, Cyprus) graduated from The English School, Nicosia in 2002 and went on to the University of Nottingham where she gained a Bachelor in Architecture in 2005. During her studies she was awarded a University of Nottingham scholarship and was selected to attend the Architectural Heritage: Perspectives on Town Development in the Historic Centre of Riga (2003), a two week seminar, alongside an international array of architecture students.
In 2005-2006 she was employed by Studio 75, an architecture office in Athens. While there, she worked on a breadth of projects, of ranging scale, varying from interior design to urban planning, including the winning proposal for the renovation of the National Theatre of Greece.
In 2006 she returned to the University of Nottingham and in July 2008 graduated from the Diploma in Architecture course with Merit, thus gaining the RIBA Part II. Her final Diploma project focused on the relationship between food and architecture in Nicosias inner walled city.
From very early on she has had a travellers disposition, journeying throughout Europe but also over continents and oceans, exercising her flair in photography, with Brazil as her latest pit stop in 2007.
Currently she is one half of Dear ARCHITECTS, who took part in the London Festival of Architecture in July 2008, as well as were selected by Sir Peter Cook to represent Cyprus in the Venice Architectural Biennale in September 2008, with the project Make Souvla Not War !.
[ http://DearARCHITECTS.blogspot.com ]
In October 2008 she relocated to London, where she undertook an internship with DMD Architects [April-August 2009] and is currently looking for a job as a Part II Architectural Assistant, as well as realising her passion in Jewellery Design by creating a range using laser cut wood [MCP].
about mcp //
Having studied Architecture and completed various independent projects in the field of Jewellery design, I set forth to enthusiastically realise my desire to combine these two, reflect the one in the other and generate sites through form. In launching the MCP Contemporary Jewellery Collection I utilised my knowledge of architectural techniques of model making and created imaginary layered landscapes and destinations, as singular as every travelers vision. Engraving the map to such sites I employed specific, technological process like laser cutting and computer aided design, on the one, and humble materials on the other.
Burnt, laser-cut plywood, a distant relative of serene fishing boats, has been layered by hand into structures redolent of utopian archipelagos and evocative harbours of fantasy. The spectacularly transformed wood then mingles with colourful woven silks to organise luxurious, three-dimensional homage to tanned bodies. Angular rings extend to reach refracted sun rays caressing fingers at beach bars. Others are engaged in a tidal game with shadows and openings. Etched earrings are but diagrams of breezy sweet nothings.
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