Palladium Jewellery Design crowns winner

The International Palladium Board and Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design have announced Yuki Agriardi Koswara as the winner of the Palladium Jewellery Design Competition 2012. The initiative established to encourage a new

generation of talented jewellery designers celebrated the winning design at an exclusive launch during London Fashion Week at Somerset House as part of the new BFC showcase, Rock Vault.

This unique collaboration challenged students from the MA Design: Ceramics, Furniture or Jewellery course to create a piece from the rare precious metal palladium, and judges including Stephen Webster and Carol Wooton, Vogue’s Jewellery Editor, felt that Yuki Agriardi Koswara’s ‘Essentia’ neckpiece ‘most reflected the brief to showcase palladium’s inherent properties of lightness and strength’.

Yuki Agriardi Koswara commenting on his accolade said, “I’m incredibly excited to have won the Palladium Jewellery Design Competition. I’m very grateful to both the International Palladium Board and Central Saint Martins for giving me the opportunity to produce my design and for the opportunity to show at London Fashion Week.”

Both Yuki and runner-up, Vance Ng Sze Wing, both receive a financial award from International Palladium Board, and all the finalists showcased their designs within the BFC Rock Vault exhibition.

Brad Mills, Chairman, International Palladium Board commented, “We are inspired by the creativity and innovation presented in the finalists’ work. The students have perfectly interpreted the inherent attributes of palladium in the winning designs.”