ALEXANDRA TSOUKALA

“Inspiration is a combination of many things. But most importantly, for me, it emerges from the materials I use, from the markets and from life itself”

MINIMUM DESIGN

INSPIRED BY Martha Graham’s famous choreography, where her dancers moved inside tubes made from FABRIC, their dancing surmised seductively. totally charmed by the spectacle THIS STAYED IN HER memory. 

ALEXANDRA’S JEWELLERY INITIALLY CREATED in this same material. Later, a pleated material inspired her with its elasticity, its play with light and shade and the shimmering dance of its pleats.  

Colour is inseparable from shape. STARTING with white, the way one starts by sketching on a blank canvas. Later on, when the object has acquired its definite shape, THE DECISION IS MADE ONWHAT colours might be added.  

 ALEXANDRA enjoys trying all sorts of combinations. sometimes inspired by the earthy shades of the ancient Greek painter of the 5th century BC.  Polygnotos, and at other times by all the shades of blue-green, or by really exorbitant, gaudy combinations. “And there’s always the element of surprise, when (as often happens) some colours are spread out at random my working bench and I cry out, “how beautiful, let’ s do that!”.