A Silversmith / Andreas Fabian
www.andreasfabian.eu
A childhood in Afghanistan, Lebanon and Portugal and a design and silversmithing education in Germany and at The Royal College of Art, London was always going to make Andreas Fabian well connected to global design culture.These days he delights in design play where an overly familiar cultural form is re-imagined to subtly allude to several others and perhaps a natural form as well, toying with how well you observe his work.
In his objects cool sighted functionalism meets reinterpretation and wry humour to create domestic objects that sensually occupy a much more thoughtful table landscape than usual. The refined details of a silversmith are seductive but they are undercut by an astringent clear-sighted questioning. The answers are challenging, provocative and very often humorous.
Fabian’s design consultancies are driven by a constant exhibition schedule where the play of materials, silver, stone, ceramics or glass reappears in the work highly finished and skillfully intertwined.
