Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry MuseumMakrygianni
Lila: The Art of Hosting, from the Banquet to the Coffee Table
About 25 collections of objects Ilias Lalaounis designed between 1970 and 2002, staged as a dining room, living room and study, honouring Lila Lalaounis.
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A silver bee rests on a honeycomb of sodalite, obsidian and garnet that Ilias Lalaounis made in 1974, and here it sits on a table his wife Lila dressed herself. For her 90th birthday the museum asked Lila Lalaouni, now chair of its board, to lay out his objects as she did for 56 years of formal dinners.
You walk through a dining room set for a banquet, under Michalis Vafiadis's portraits of the four Lalaounis daughters, then a living room and a study. More than 120 works from 25 collections sit beside sketches, models and press clippings, from his work beyond jewelry: office objects for the male clients he courted, miniature boats, DNA in rock crystal. Think of your yiayia's cabinet of good glasses nobody may touch, if your grandfather had worked in 22-carat gold.
The museum's general ticket is €10 (€5 for students and seniors at the desk, free under 18), it's open until 18:00 on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and the show closes on 28 December.
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The bee and the honeycomb (1974)
Look for a silver bee on a honeycomb set with sodalite, obsidian, garnet and mica, from his Microcosm collection of insects.
Lila's banquet dining room
A table dressed for a banquet with console and buffet tables, watched over by Michalis Vafiadis's portraits of the four Lalaounis daughters.
The DNA object (2000)
Chromosomes caught mid-division, as seen through a microscope, rendered in rock crystal and 18-carat gold on an obsidian base.
The Fair Wings boats (1987)
Miniature boats sculpted in silver, with blue sodalite, from the collection Lalaounis called microsculptures.
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You came for wearable jewelry: this show is tableware, desk objects and small sculptures.
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Under-18s get into the museum free.
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Crediti fotografici
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- Like Hunted Birds: Greek Jews After World War IICourtesy of Jewish Museum of Greece
- Gen X: Tales from the Forgotten GenerationCourtesy of DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art (Athens)
- Vlasis Frissiras – Double Portrait: The Collector, the PainterCourtesy of Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre (Foundation of the Hellenic World)
- Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry MuseumHoverfish / Wikimedia Commons, Pubblico dominio
- Acropolis MuseumPinterpandai.com / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Jewish Museum of GreeceDafniotis / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Herakleidon MuseumGeorge E. Koronaios / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0