Axel Henselder

Contributions From Axel Henselder

The Moonlight Shimmers

The Moonlight Shimmers

Since antiquity, artists have been fascinated with the unique characteristics of silver. It shimmers as white as the moonlight, is...
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Global Village of the Design Elite

Global Village of the Design Elite

At the 17th JCK Show in Las Vegas (May 30 – June 3) the elite of the international jewelry scene...
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The Ideal Solution

The Ideal Solution

“The third generation of the tried and trusted PUK welders, the PUK 3, has been a great success worldwide,” says...
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Roland DG: The Perfect Wax Model

Roland DG: The Perfect Wax Model

Roland DG Corporation is making high-tech available to jewellery designers and goldsmiths with its JWX-30. They too now have access...
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Crystalline Beauties for Designers

Crystalline Beauties for Designers

Nature spread gemstones that are suitable for jewelry purposes around the globe with extreme thrift. In most cases, mining and...
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Color Up Your Life with Gaudy Jewels

Color Up Your Life with Gaudy Jewels

Even the poet and philosopher Goethe knew that color affects emotions and therefore directly influences the sould and the unity...
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ZeitZeichen: A Time Signal

ZeitZeichen: A Time Signal

For the last four years, ten young gemstone designers from Rhineland-Palatinate have been collaborating under the title of ‘ZeitZeichen’ (time...
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Inhorgenta Europe: A Breath of Fresh Air

Inhorgenta Europe: A Breath of Fresh Air

Inhorgenta Europe (February 15 to 18, 2008), held in Munich, has become one of the most important springboards for young...
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Church Treasure Given Shiny New Cover

Church Treasure Given Shiny New Cover

The Vorau Foundation has a special treasure in its possession: the so-called ‘Vorauer Evangeliar’, a magnificent manuscript which is considered...
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Subtle Form of Seduction

Subtle Form of Seduction

“It’s what’s inside that counts,” so the saying goes. However, the importance of packaging for watches and jewelry is often...
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The Beautiful Art of Appearance

The Beautiful Art of Appearance

The item of jewelry sparkles and glitters so that the onlooker almost becomes dizzy. But everything is just an appearance...
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Perfect Technique and Innovative Products

Perfect Technique and Innovative Products

To keep up with the competition, goldsmiths and jewelers are increasingly being required to keep up-to-date with the latest technological...
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Atelier Product Range Making Jewelry Ideas a Reality

Atelier Product Range Making Jewelry Ideas a Reality

The ‘Atelier’ product range from Heimerle + Meule is of particular interest to goldsmiths, watchmakers and all jewelry creators. To...
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Casting Jewelry Yourself

Casting Jewelry Yourself

“Never! It would be great but much too complicated – and much too expensive”. This would be the typical answer...
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Intergem 2007 Gemstones in All Colors

Intergem 2007 Gemstones in All Colors

Good news for the gemstone sector: color is a triumph again – the trend for genuine crystals continues. Ever more...
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Susanne Hammer: New Perspectives for Jewelry

Susanne Hammer: New Perspectives for Jewelry

Susanne Hammer’s pieces are neither an attractive means of self-adornment, nor a status symbol. They throw traditional jewelry conventions into...
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The PUK: Generation 3

The PUK: Generation 3

The PUK® fine welding devices have established themselves in the goldsmith studios and in the jewelry manufacturers in over 50...
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Novorit: Colorful Imagery

Novorit: Colorful Imagery

The Novorit polyceramics system has been on the market for a year and offers fascinating possibilities for the creative color...
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The JCK Show: The World’s Elite Designers

The JCK Show: The World’s Elite Designers

The JCK Show in Las Vegas from June 1 to 5, 2007 is seen around the world as one of...
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Young Cellinis: Fresh Ideas for an Old Craft

Young Cellinis: Fresh Ideas for an Old Craft

Gold and silver smithing is one of the oldest artistic crafts known to humanity. It has a long tradition in...
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Forum for Unique Silver Objects

Forum for Unique Silver Objects

For the second time, inhorgenta europe 2007 is presenting to its specialist visitors a special show by international silversmiths at...
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The Test Market for Creative Ideas

The Test Market for Creative Ideas

The Forum Brand New – New Brand was given life five years ago at inhorgenta europe in Munich, while the...
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Karl Fischer GmbH: One for All

Karl Fischer GmbH: One for All

Regardless of whether it is question of machines, tools, equipment, working materials and chemicals, findings, gemstones or pearls for gold...
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Alraune Lifestyle: Cutting Edge of Time

Alraune Lifestyle: Cutting Edge of Time

Alraune Lifestyle does not simply follow fashion trends. The brand name is always slightly ahead of time and is numbered...
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High-Tech for Goldsmith Studios

High-Tech for Goldsmith Studios

State-of-the-art technology and innovative methods are the pacemakers for high-performance and effective work in a crafts trade. Jewelers and goldsmiths...
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Deja Vu: A Watch for Any Outfit

Deja Vu: A Watch for Any Outfit

Seven years ago, the jewelry and watch designer Brigitte Gertz-Ziegler from Kirchheim/Teck had a groundbreaking idea: “Lots of female customers...
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Opals: All the Colors of the Rainbow

Opals: All the Colors of the Rainbow

Due to their magical variety of color, opals are evocative of a solidified rainbow. These gemstones seem to have captured...
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Zeitzeichen: Young Gemstone Designers

Zeitzeichen: Young Gemstone Designers

Drawing on the motto “Zeitzeichen” (Signs of the times), this years Intergem will feature striking exhibitions by ten young designers....
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Intergem: First Address for Gemstones

Intergem: First Address for Gemstones

Hosting over 130 exhibitors and welcoming roughly 3,000 show guests from all over the world, the Intergem is the leading...
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Metal Titanium

Metal Titanium

The metal titanium, named after the oldest deity of Greek history, was not discovered until relatively recently. Perhaps the gods...
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The Jewelry Clasp

The Jewelry Clasp

It does not enclose the precious object to conceal it, but to display it: the jewelry clasp. It protects against...
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Agate: The Essence of Beauty

Agate: The Essence of Beauty

Agate cameos are made from dyed multiple layered agates, which are a regional specialty of the cutters around Idar-Oberstein in...
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New Ideas in Setting the Stage

New Ideas in Setting the Stage

As a goldsmith, how do you increase the number of customers frequenting your business? How can you make more sales...
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Jewelry from the Magic Mountain

Jewelry from the Magic Mountain

If you follow the constantly ascending curving road in the picturesque Taunus mountain range from Kelkheim near Frankfurt am Main...
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Mini Casting System for Smaller Studios

Mini Casting System for Smaller Studios

The mini casting system MC 15 was specially developed for use in dental casting, goldsmith work and jewelry design and...
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Ceramic Jewelry: Artworks made of Fire and Earth

Ceramic Jewelry: Artworks made of Fire and Earth

People have always been fascinated with the material clay. Our forefathers believed the intelligent design of clay in some way...
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Easter Parade 2006 at the Keukenhof

Easter Parade 2006 at the Keukenhof

In the famous bulb flower park Keukenhof (Lisse, Netherlands) this year the already traditional Easter Parade will be held for...
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Inhorgenta Europe 2006: New Impulses for Jewelry Design

Inhorgenta Europe 2006: New Impulses for Jewelry Design

New design trends are by no means a product of coincidence. They develop hand in hand with contemporary events and...
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Aninka Harms: Volute Jewelry

Aninka Harms: Volute Jewelry

This work is an attempt to make visible and wearable a meeting point between the two worlds of Art and...
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Competition for Jewelry Made of Silicon Carbide

Competition for Jewelry Made of Silicon Carbide

Within the framework of the competition “Jewelry plus silicon carbide”, participants were asked to use the aesthetic properties of a...
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Danner Prize 2005: Competition for Arts and Crafts

Danner Prize 2005: Competition for Arts and Crafts

The Danner Prize has existed for over two decades; it was organized for the eighth time in 2005. The arts...
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Enchanted Mankind by Gemstones

Enchanted Mankind by Gemstones

Colored gemstones have enchanted mankind since the dawn of time. The variety of colors, their mysterious sparkle and their extreme...
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Klaus Loose: For the Love of Metal

Klaus Loose: For the Love of Metal

The hammer falls powerfully on to the red, glowing iron. Sparks fly. Sunny the mare nervously whips its tail. The...
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The Best Way to Effectively Present Jewels

The Best Way to Effectively Present Jewels

There are no limits to the different ways of designing jewelry with gemstones. The selection of the setting is not...
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Lively Metal Surfaces

Lively Metal Surfaces

Since human beings first started transforming precious metals into jewelry, they have focused on ways of designing the surfaces. In...
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New Technologies Make Us Fit for the Future

New Technologies Make Us Fit for the Future

In difficult times, it is important to invest in modern methods, machines and tools. Jewelry and watch makers can assert...
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The National Drawing Academy: The Force of Talents

The National Drawing Academy: The Force of Talents

The National Drawing Academy in Hanau was founded as early as 1772. It is one of Germany’s oldest education and...
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A Hard Metal for Delicate Jewels

A Hard Metal for Delicate Jewels

The bright, white metal exudes purism, suggests technical aptitude and hints at progress, zeitgeist and perfection. Jewelry made of stainless...
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The Right Preparation for Visiting a Trade Fair

The Right Preparation for Visiting a Trade Fair

Trade fairs are still the most important platform to find information on trends and new products. Direct discussions between existing...
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The Second Round of Orders Has Higher Profile

The Second Round of Orders Has Higher Profile

Jewelers, goldsmiths and specialist retailers are increasingly ordering on short notice. In saturated markets, the demand among consumers for new...
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The PUK Fine Welding Devices

For two years now, the manufacturer Lampert has been cooperating with the Laboratory for Welding Technology and Thermal Treatment at...
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