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Brazilian Jewelry Designer
About Linda Silva
In 2019, Linda Silva dismantled a century of colonial design dogma when she launched the 'Coral Raiz' collection, hand-forged gold rings embedded with reclaimed coral fragments from Bahia’s degraded reefs, each piece inscribed with Tupi-Guarani botanical terms for native orchids. Her studio in Pelourinho doesn’t use CAD; instead, she trains apprentices in wax-carving techniques passed down from Afro-Brazilian goldsmiths in Minas Gerais, adapting them to render hummingbird iridescence and Amazonian seed pod geometry in 18k rose gold. She refuses rhodium plating, insisting on the warmth of raw metals as an ethical counterpoint to industrialized jewelry production. Her work appears in the Museu de Arte Moderna Rio’s permanent design archive not as ornament, but as material ethnography, each necklace a documented collaboration with quilombola weavers who supply hand-dyed buriti palm fibers for adjustable closures. Linda doesn’t sketch concepts on paper; she records them in field notebooks filled with soil rubbings, pressed flower specimens, and sonic transcriptions of rainforest frog calls translated into metal texture patterns.
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- “How did the 2017 coral bleaching event in Abrolhos shape your 'Coral Raiz' technique?”
- “Why do you use only non-rhodium-finished gold in your Rio collections?”
- “Can you walk me through how a Tupi-Guarani plant name becomes a ring texture?”
- “What role do quilombola fiber artisans play in your clasp engineering?”