Pichulik collaborates with South African artist and ceramicist, Lucie de Moyencourt, founder of Shellegance, to transform Pichulik´s 8 Watson Street Atelier in the heart of Cape Town. The charming, double-story heritage building will be transformed into a seashore. Its white-washed facade embellished with one-of-a-kind, handcrafted and hand-painted ceramic seashells, creating a surreal, decorative seascape, inviting wonder and whimsy into the city centre. Pichulik and Shellegance unveil the ´Shelleganza´ on the 28th of November 2024.
The Shellegance installation will transform the Pichulik Atelier into an ocean-themed seascape. The exterior will be embellished with a collection of shells painted in de Moyencourt’s signature marine hues, ranging from azure to blue, with soft coral accents. This imaginative takeover is an ode to the sea, mer, myth and magic heralding the arrival of a sensational Summer in South Africa’s majestic Mother City.
“This collaboration means a lot to me. It is an honour and joy to collaborate with friend and fellow mermaid Kat Pichulik whom I have long admired as an original creator and businessperson. The pendant which we sculpted for Pichulik has a classic Shellegance shape, but instead of painting the surface, we have opted for a brilliant pure gold lustre-fired finish. This aquatic jewel will look beautiful on any neck especially glimmering in the summer sunlight by the ocean! I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed creating it with Pichulik Africa.” – Lucie de Moyencourt
Inside, the Atelier is reimagined as a Mermaid’s treasure trove. Pichulik and Shellegance narrate the collaboration with a curation of images, and a conversation between their sea-themed objet d’art, including the unveiling of never-before-seen Shellegance interior pieces, alongside Pichulik’s aventurine, fluorite, and pearl adornment.
As part of the creative collaboration, Pichulik and Shellegance have designed a limited edition Shellegance pendant, a sculptural gold-lustre ceramic shell imbued with the soul of the sea. A licence to indulge all of your mermaid, shell-collecting whimsy!
“I adore Lucie’s magical creative spirit, which is so abundantly expressed in ‘Shellegance’. There is an effervescent joy that is palpable when you see these shells and objects. We released our Mer collection in October, and we thought what better way to enrich this folkloric story than with the ultimate Cape Town mermaid and her treasure trove of shells? This collaboration is an expression of playfulness and creativity, and we hope people are filled with wonder and levity when they experience it.” – Katherine-Mary Pichulik
The Pichulik x Shellegance collaboration is a celebration of Summer and the creative spirit of Cape Town.
`Shell Shell on the wall, who is the most imaginative of them all?´