Jun 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
In 2010 the architect Tadao Ando and artist Olafur Elisasson were commissioned by Takeo Oboyashi to design and create a guesthouse and gallery. Tadao Ando, who luckily didn’t have any formal training as an architect, designed the space and Olafur Elisasson created the metallic, geometric tiles that make a stunning pattern throughout the building’s exterior surface.
This article will address this partnership and its use of platinum, which we generally associate in western culture with the jewellery industry, not architecture and the building industry.
Platinum is the heaviest precious metal with more than 80 per cent of South African platinum stocks. As it is a hard metal it makes it suitable for a wedding or engagement ring because it does not rust as easily as white gold, and once polished it shines brilliantly, making it an obvious surface for the tiled walls. The light reflects in the tiny courtyard setting, gleaming but still able to withstand visitors brushing against its surface or hitting multiple tile contours. Since platinum has a corrosion resistance, when exposed to air or water, it does not tarnish or oxidize, meaning it can last in an outer space.
The finished design combines a minimalist style, using geometric shapes and repetition in a large-scale pattern formation. There are 6,800 hexagonal platinum tiles on the walls of the courtyard area costing a rumored £400,000.00. The use of hexagonal tiles is inspired by Eliasson ‘s earlier project called ‘Quasi Bricks’ which consisted of a wall made of multiple mirror tiles, titled to reflect the light in different directions, and shining brightly like a diamond.
The courtyard is a dynamic space, where the platinum-coated ceramic tiles alter the atmosphere depending on the light for ever. When the sun shines brilliantly, the room becomes illuminated, while the room becomes a monochromatic grey in the dark atmosphere, reflecting the clear blue sky from above.
When I see the photographs of this mystical space, I am reminded of the tops of earrings sitting in a row within my Pearl jewelry box of Great Aunts, carefully laid out, organized in pairs, some titling to one side, some titling to the other side. Each glistening as the sun shines over the different surfaces from the bedroom window. I can’t help but feel like a huge jewelry box, so large that you can walk through it, amid the polished jewelry metals, with the colors mirrored in the surrounding atmosphere and the sparkling surface imitating the precious gems and diamonds.
While highly unusual and could probably be seen as Oboyashi’s self-indulgent commission, the room is without doubt striking and even magical.
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Jun 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Jewellery World, an industry publication, has pulled a story from its website following allegations that it was biased and unbalanced.
Since Expertise Events managing director Gary Fitz-Roy – organizer of one of the fairs – complained about “Injurious Falsehood” about his case, a story on two New Zealand jewellery fairs held both over the last weekend of September was deleted from Jewellery World ‘s website.
The report was entitled “Fair Fight in New Zealand” to compare the results of the New Zealand Jewelry Fair (NZJF), organized by Expertise Events, and the New Zealand Jewelers and Watchmakers Fair.
According to Fitz-Roy, who demanded that the story be removed from the JW website when he saw it, the author of the story, Jewellery World’s publisher John Abolins, painted the inaugural NZJF in a negative light, without interviewing key players involved.
Abolins attended only the New Zealand Jewellers and Watchmakers Fair (JWNZ), but his story stated that the Expertise-run event ‘had a very quiet opening day on Saturday with very few retailers attending and even less buying, while the JWNZ Fair opened on Sunday with a rush of buyers eager to see the home-grown exhibition, which was loyally supported by many of New Ze’s artists.
Abolins went on to say that NZ retailers “showed their allegiance with their feet and wallets to the JWNZ fair – if a business was exhibiting at both venues, customers were delighted to see the variety at the Expertise Events Fair but focused on buying at the JWNZ fair.”
As the assertions were made without references being confirmed, Fitz-Roy, who was not given a comment, assumed that the report was not fair and balanced. Additionally, one person quoted in the story immediately criticized his remarks following publication – a representative of the Australian company PW Beck was quoted as saying “lacked atmosphere” at the Expertise Events fair and had “few customers,” something he dismissed as false when approached by Expertise Events.
On 21 October, Fitz-Roy wrote to Abolins that he had told the PWB representative to find out that PWB was “happy with business published on Saturday at the Expertise Events Fair” and that “both fairs contributed equal business.”
Confirmed that the report was not accurate, Fitz-Roy was incensed into concluding the news report with the opinion of an author: “The JWNZ Trade Fair seems to have been the clear winner for both exhibitors and visitors.”
His email to Abolins added: “News should be fair and dispassionate to write. A journalist should report impartially on the truth.’
Fitz-Roy then wrote to Simon Grover, managing director of Jewellery World, demanding that the story be removed from the website; “I don’t shy away from criticism, to be clear, as long as it is done fairly and without malice,” Fitz-Roy said in his email to Grover. “I think you should take urgent care of this, so that we don’t have to go down the road of Injurious Falsehood. Please confirm that you will take the appropriate and urgent steps outlined to minimize the damage done to Expertise Events.
The law defines injurious falsehood as a fallacious statement which causes intentional harm to the commercial or economic relations of an individual.
Jun 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the midst of a handful of rapid transformations, the jewellery industry, generally considered slow-paced. In some of them technology propels the pace of change and its eager consumer adoption.
Ecommerce has changed the manner in which retailers approach business. Offline brands invest in online retail, and online retailers are opening “experience centers” and physical showrooms to bricks and mortar.
“Indians have literally jumped a whole generation, straight from the personal computer to the cell phone,” said Vijay Jain, CEO, Orra, who moderated this 2017 Retail Jeweller India Forum session. “This influences not only how information is consumed but also how it is bought.”
The session was entitled “Challenges and opportunities for Internet shoppers to sell beyond known boundaries.” Quite aptly, in his remarks Jain observed that some traditional family jewellers did not simply leverage their brand equity in a new space when they went online. Instead he identified Zaamor and Stylori as two online jewellery powerhouse brands created respectively by the well-established family businesses Vummidi Bangaru Jewellers (VBJ) and NAC Jewellers.
In his presentation, Zaamor, vice president – business operations, Mariappan Muthiah, explained why the parent company VBJ introduced the new brand: “We will want to collect funds in the future, which may entail diluting ownership. Second, the main ecommerce market is in the west and north of the country, and South Indian customers are best known for VBJ. To create confidence, it seemed logical to introduce a new brand as long as the VBJ legacy was woven into the new brand story.’
Anand Ramanujam, CEO, Stylori, made a similar case in his presentation: “Besides keeping the funding option open, we wanted to tell a different story that would have been in conflict with NAC’s, a 50-year-old brand. The new brand is unique even in the quality of jewellery, target audience and product design.
Amazon Fashion, India, category leader Mayank Shivam presented the prospect of a marketplace operator displaying a number of online and offline jewellery brands. “Typically, a known brand is more conversive even if it’s regional. That said, online customers are very different, and customizing the product mix and getting the product story right is important. It is far more important than brand familiarity, but there’s still an advantage for established brands — everything else being equal.
He did have numbers. “Eighty per cent of the market is between the ages of 18 and 35, and over 50 per cent of jewelry sales are towns with a population of less than 100,000.”
Jain asked the expert panel what back-end technology a pearl jewelry retailer needs to invest in to run a technology
Plateforme for ecommerce. In his presentation, Minesh Shah, MD, Effission Software, explained that “There are different layers. It is really up to what a retailer wants to create. One can opt for a base site with a monthly fee, or one that is cloud-computed. Retailers will also need to invest in analytics to better know their customers and in customer service to increase the experience of buying and post-order.
“We have simple cataloging for our VBJ platform,” Mariappan said, “but Zaamor is a fully-fledged ecommerce platform with broader demands.” Technology aspects of online retail are, he said, “similar to visual merchandising in stores: ecommerce needs a higher level of technology-enabled merchandising.” Zaamor diamonds has, for example, “IP technology that shows customers different items that suit different products.”
Ramanujam stressed the investment is related to the vision. “Building Stylori.com took us four months, because we wanted the customer experience to be very different from all the other sites in the same room. We wanted to create something that remained in the mind of the user and wasn’t forgotten quickly — not just another me-too pearl jewellery portal.
It’s crucial to build the best possible core team for online operations, said Aditya Pethe, director, Jewellers Waman Hari Pethe. “We made the mistake of starting with 25 people, but now we are maintaining a core team of four or five. The team needn’t be big because they can outsource jobs like digital marketing, software and logistics.
Pethe has made it clear that outsourcing doesn’t mean less investment. “We lack the Appropriate skill sets as jewellers. Hiring the right talent becomes critical, and aligning it with one target. Some of the talent is not available, so having these people on board as consultants works better.
It’s not enough to be online and engaged. “To get the ‘likes’ on social media is very convenient,” Pethe said. “What’s critical is the conversion to sale.” In other words , a good marketing plan is necessary.
“One has to invest on consumer acquisition,” Ramanujam said. “This is the oil for the ecommerce engine.” According to Mariappan, traffic can be constructed very easily “but conversion is dependent on website experience. But if the seller isn’t investing in improving the site’s experience, the acquisition cost would increase.
“It’s relatively easy for a marketplace like Amazon.in to drive customers,” Shivam said. “It has a lot of categories and is heavily invested in marketing.” Many of Amazon ‘s decisions, he explained, are based on technology-driven intelligence, an advantage not available to individual retailers, who will find it much harder to understand customer behavior and acquire customers. “Our analysis of the data enables us to know exactly what each client is looking for. Indeed the scale is a challenge, because online customers can be anywhere in the world.
Post-order ecommerce service, Shivam said, isn’t easy to master. “A customer will return to the store in offline space, and you will make sure the problem is solved. But maintaining a 100 per cent clean customer experience in an atmosphere where you don’t know the customer is the secret.
This matters more, he said, because “Jewellery is one category where we see a lot of repeat purchases, based on the experience of shopping and the brand. Retail customers with a single bad experience will never return, particularly because these are things of great value.
Being online, he said, empoweres consumers. “On one app, a lady buying jewellery worth Rs. 10,000 gets over 500 choices. She may not be getting more than two trays of designs at a single store.
For their part, he said online channel jewellers should have realistic expectations. “Many retailers seem disappointed that the average price doesn’t move upwards. Today, however, online consumers are searching for lower base rates, from Rs. 15,000–20,000. We’ll see it slowly go up in the years to come.
Jun 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
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Jun 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Heidenheim/Schopfloch, June 23, 2020 – In various application areas, the mobile excavator B110W convinces with power, compact dimensions and flexibility – essential characteristics for the projects of the family business Grillenberger Tief- und Straßenbau GmbH (Grillenberger). Specialised in sewer and water pipeline construction as well as in developing construction areas, the company purchased two fully equipped mobile excavators B110W plus a grab and a hydraulic breaker from the Yanmar dealer Engelhardt Baumaschinen GmbH (Engelhardt). The transfer took place on June 18, 2020.
Its enormous performance values and compact dimensions qualify the excavator for tasks in the higher weight classes. With extra-large lifting forces, the 11-ton-machine also transports particularly heavy loads, which can be precisely positioned, thanks to its sensitive hydraulics. These parameters are of particular importance for the civil engineering specialist Grillenberger. Excavating deep trenches, loading excavated material onto elevated loading platforms and placing pipes precisely at depth – these are tasks that have to be carried out quickly and easily every day. Both B110W were manufactured in the Yanmar factory in Crailsheim and individually painted according to Grillenberger’s specifications. The assembly of the lubrication system, quick coupler and other attachments were executed by the Yanmar retailer Engelhardt in their own garage.
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“We have adapted the excavators exactly to our needs. Thanks to the many additional options and attachments available from Yanmar, this was no problem at all,” explains Gerd Grillenberger, Managing Director at Grillenberger.
Yanmar offers its retailers high-quality machines from the compact segment: powerful mini excavators, compact excavators and dumpers in various sizes and models, as well as wheel loaders and mobile excavators. The entire Yanmar product portfolio is available at Engelhardt. The construction machinery specialist is based in Schopfloch and has been a Yanmar dealer in Central Franconia since 2018. Besides new and used machines for sale, the company offers its clients rental machines as well as various services in its own garage.
Jun 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
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