More Icelandic fashion design: this time a series of concrete belt buckles by Sruli Recht of Reykjavík.
The buckles come in four hand-cast shapes and fasten with a hook and bar made of reclaimed steel.
They come with belts made of horse leather.
More about Sruli Recht on Dezeen:
Masked - In Flight (March 2010)
R¿ng (January 2010)
Vopnabúrið, Recht’s flagship store in an abandoned fishery (September 2009)
Icelandic design festival DesignMarch took place 18-21 March.
Photographs are by Marino Thorlacius.
The text that follows is from Recht:
From Mortar, Cold Steel and Flesh
Is Held Within
SR120
CONCRETE BUCKLE
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I took my horse and I took my house
and dragged four stones along that road
to wipe the dust
from mortar, cold steel and flesh
I took the cement powder
claimed rusted steel nails from the forgotten grounds of hope
the horse's hide, beaten now by time and toil, I tanned
and left with my gaze and sweat
to bend that steel and harden that stone.
and with what was shed I am left to atone
sit,
stare
and postpone.
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Concrete Buckle is a set of 4 hand cast belt buckles with bar and hook bent from sealed reclaimed steel, boxed with a horse-skin Black Sable, Rose Grey and Bay Red belt. Available in several boxed combinations of belt and buckle: one, or all four buckles, and one, or two belts.
where do I get one?
absolute civil engineering bling!
Very nice , but wich such simple shapes, did they have to be produced by rapid prototyping?
the buckles are cute, but seriously … isn’t the intention to keep the trousers up? And horse leather? I feel ill …
they look pretty nice,. i’m curious to see the objects in real scale.
i don’t like the idea of horse leather
Horse skin? Oh neigh!
its Iceland all what there lives is horses and sheep.. so do you want them to import cow leather????? ore any other textiles?????
keep it horse!!! and i know the horse was happy!!!
I fancy the choice of material – concrete is the cultural fabric par excellence
and since on Iceland, outside the “metropolitan area”, there are more horses than humans, why not horse leather – an expression of a culturally potent symbol….
http://www.srulirecht.com/index.php/order.html
not as reasonably priced as i had hoped.
Cement you can wear. Alright! Love those honest raw materials, even horse leather.
and whale wallets…..
these would bee grate building components
Horse, lamb and reindeer are the only animals on Iceland that you can get the leather from. Everything else has to be imported from the UK and Denmark.
won’t the concrete damage your clothes?
Is that an Icelandic concrete buckle on your pants, or are you just happy to see me?