A Designer Making Fantastical Jewellery Inspired By Her Dreams | Remarkable Living

[Music] i live in a dream world life is a stage for me sometimes you know when i'm sleeping i see full scenes i see rooms decorated the people the hairs dresses and i see jewelry on people and i wake up in the morning i say i have to do this and here comes the jewelry [Music] like many little girls i was always interested in jewelry dressing up makeup and i think that little girl is still inside me and i remember playing around my grandmother and my mother's jewelry i was begging them to open the safe for me so i can you know discover what's inside [Music] when you walk in the busy nishante street you open the door and you are in another world do you know we didn't want to make a display of jewelry because actually in a way we don't sell jewelry we sell arts we sell dream i want to create pieces that is really contemporary but at the same time i want them to be timeless since the beginning when i started doing scarups turtles and evil eyes i think after nine years those are still the most popular ones insects that really similar to my in character because i find myself really strong really determined but at the same time i'm really fragile emotionally insects are just like that you can crash them in a second but at the same time they survive for millions of years [Music] i made a jewelry collection a capsule collection for them and we used a lot of pineapples a lot of hearts stars and animals it was a really really happy kind of collaboration i was so touched that at french house chose a younger turkish designer we created a special perfume just for this bottle which it's a limited edition that was sold in the first day and it was a romantic collaboration for me [Music] i have many muses and many women i'm really inspired by when i saw queen maxima of holland crown princess maurice chantal of greece or katy perry it was a really good moment [Music] [Music] i think all the asian arts and asian aesthetics there also really big impact on me people always ask me how do i combine chinese and ottoman arts together in my design they're both really important ancient empires a lot of traditions and cultures are shared we all come from central asia in a way there is sisters brothers it just works together perfectly [Music] when my flight first lands to china in a really bizarre strange way i feel really at home and really part of the culture [Music] i always loved cufflinks and you look at gentleman's jacket sometimes you see the cufflinks sometimes you don't see it's somehow a little surprising element [Music] i was working as a corporate in a chinese state-owned company and i learned a lot and when i decided to start beigum khan i work two jobs because i really like my work but i really like what i was doing with begum khan as well so i decided maybe i can do both and for a while i did but then when beigun khan really took off you know i had to move to istanbul hire people start a new office so it wasn't a difficult decision it just happened you know the way it's supposed to happen [Music] istanbul is a really beautiful magical place to create jewelry because we have centuries old craftsmanship and that's my ambition to keep this handcrafting [Music] i really like that transference of emotions and thoughts from my thoughts to their brain their brains to their hands from their hands it's an amazing process [Music] i was born and raised into a family of autumn art collectors so i think their aesthetics had a big impact on me every piece is very unique but you can wear them with daily clothes or you can wear them for a night out in the city or for a ball or for a wedding i think they're very versatile and i think that's what i love about her designs [Music] when she first started i was like oh my god can guys wear this piece of jewelry and she said oh yeah of course she has such an amazing knowledge of history and art and culture and everything but also she puts that knowledge into a fantasy world a wonderland [Music] [Music] we're both designers and we're trying to create our own design journey along with our personal one bikini is the most fun and loyal friend three summers ago i called her and i was like you know i'm feeling like a bit down and she's like what do you mean summer is already here and on top of that the fashion is so much fun this season there are so much tassels and fringes and colors and big jewelry like everything is going on for us it's her way of being happy i was like oh my god this is the first time a friend of mine just consulted me with fashion and this is the first time it happened to me [Applause] [Music] with my lastest collection you will see many evil eyes coming together so with this collection of the recovery times and all these world difficulties i wanted to create a protective shield around myself and with all these evil eyes i feel better [Music] [Music] the concept of a person's house as his castle is still very relevant you know the idea that you retreat to somewhere very safe and secure essentially a cocoon of tranquility [Music] concrete house has a connotation of something very masculine very hard and very heavy i wanted to artistically express the house as a floating volume of concrete that levitate amongst the landscape [Music] [Music] well i dream to have a house that i can continue the journey of evolving your house that something is not standard meaning i can display my nice furniture nice art pieces we had a different arrangement i told him let me talk to you let me spend time chatting with you let's have a drink together let's have lunch together he understood that i approach it as a process a conversation then it's essential for the kind of work we do a home is i would say one of the most difficult projects to navigate successfully because the brief is not a commercial brief it's very personal won't just give me one proposal with a sketch for the house and that sketch until today when the house is completed i have to say it's like 95 as per the first sketch it looks simple but it's a piece of sculpture one that i believe can live many many years in terms of the design the idea that we have this courtyard and the use of the concrete and stone to frame the views the special experience is one that is reminiscent of chinese courtyard houses each suite looks out to its own private courtyard and that layering of privacy was something that was very important for the house design [Music] so when we're in the room looking out to the sky garden we are like in a japanese ryokan kind of feeling [Music] actually i grown up in dustin hill back then my father have a workshop in the shop house that we live so from very young you know i already exposed to furniture building info furniture is in my blood [Music] [Music] every piece of furniture in this house is quite unique one came up with an idea about something semi-see-through so the idea of this charcoal screen it's been conceptualized from a kyoto style burn charcoal design he designed a beautiful white cellar i'm very happy with that it sparked the idea of having an oak table there and i evolved the space into a sitting area inside the white cellar this is some of the journey that i really enjoy working with him [Music] [Music] there are some very important artistic elements in the house one of them was a bonsai arrangement that had sketched out that i wanted to anchor the dining room view [Music] so it took us about close to two years to select the bonsai the ship that he won and after i found it and he started designing the tray they're holding the bonsai tree and floating from the pond and it turned out to be such a nice feature of the house [Music] do the entire journey for building this house with my architect was a very very fun and exciting one because we are not just about designing for ourselves designing we became good friends [Music] when i design houses i try to figure out a way to make sure that the home is almost a safe haven for someone to retreat to new way of living where the home provides a opportunity for him to look after his guests to displace his hospitality to friends and essentially a cocoon of tranquility [Music] i don't think anybody knows what real indian food is even i don't we have five different seasons we have different terroirs different cultural influences which i think is great for cooks like me who can freely pick up from within the geographical boundaries of what india is today and come up with things that are surprising are unique are fun even to other cooks so there's no one way to describe it and i don't even try [Music] so [Music] i couldn't think of a better backdrop to explore modern indian cooking than bangkok there's such a big strong connection between the culture of the two countries the language the ingredients the religion i mean to be able to take techniques which are indian and then apply them to ingredients that we find around us in thailand i think it's a perfect way to showcase that [Music] there is not one indian technique we use it's an entire repertoire right from drawing umami from vegetables or using the charcoal using the tandoor to fermentation to pickling to breads it's endless [Music] this is our technical take on what makes a curry the dish is layered with five different flavors but all of it comes together with a macadamia milk which is locally sourced that milk kind of transfers each flavor to the guest and to me that is what a curry does it's not simply the act of drinking the broth it's the layered flavors in there which makes the curry most interesting and so satisfying to eat [Music] he used to travel abroad come back with different recipes and ingredients in the 90s he would be making hummus and risotto and stuff like that in the kitchen in our little kitchen in india where nobody had even heard of these things and i would always be standing next to him watching him enjoy himself so much and i kind of felt part of the magic as well i think that stayed with me that joy of not just eating but also the labor of love that goes into cooking [Music] my dad was always ahead of his times and he instilled that need to do what you love as well he was just hoping i would go to paris that he'd come back and cook nice food for him but i never came back so he's still waiting to get his money's worth [Music] i heard that there was an opportunity for me to do something in india so i decided to quit my job in copenhagen to move back to india but i made a pit stop in bangkok spent a couple of months here before i went back and yeah i fell in love with the city i fell in love with the people the ingredients and i never left [Music] i never thought about being a woman so much again i think this goes back to my father who raised me not to think about if i was a man or a woman or where i came from it was the content of my character my abilities my need to work hard and just get the job done i think i was raised in a way where i didn't think about these things [Music] there is such a vacuum of knowledge about true indian food not only with people who are not indian not only for people abroad but even within india when this idea started i think we took a step to catalogue what we could find and hopefully get to an answer one day how could we define indian cuisine [Music] this last year and a half has changed me completely that's when i realized what is under my control is my own health and how i react to the pandemic now i definitely spend time exercising working out i find that it gives me mental clarity it gives me focus [Music] i started cooking for friends who wanted to get healthier first they said oh just for the day two days three days and the next thing they were like taking food from us for a month almost maybe this is another way we can help people [Music] it's very refreshing for someone an outsider to come and then you know take pride and joy in discovering the local thai ingredients i think what gariba can contribute to the food scene in bangkok is through her boundless creativity she always comes up with new ways to experience something [Music] here is showing real indian flavors without the toughness of a fine dining restaurant it's making it more accessible and easy [Music] i think indian cuisine has the resources to give chefs to kind of push asian food beyond what it has been so far and make it more relevant to where we are today in this day and age [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Sat Feb 12 2022