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= José Bribiesca = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

José Maria de Parra y Bribiesca III (2 July, 1936 - 22 April, 2019) was born in Taylor, Texas, raised in Holcomb, Kansas. After being stationed in Christchurch, New Zealand with Operation Deep Freeze, he emigrated to New Zealand in 1959. He worked as both a jewellery designer and architectural designer. Bribiesca sold his jewellery through WORLD Brand and Fingers Gallery in Auckland. He designed a fitness centre for Les Mills international on Victoria Street, Auckland City, completed 1985 and his own mirror-glazed house in 1986.

= Career =

Bribiesca and his wife, Lois Ashton, formed the jewellery design brand Ashton-Bribiesca in the 1960's. Ashton-Bribiesca jewellery was consistent in its design of square-based extruded copper rings, dipped in chrome and polished, adorned with facets of coloured acrylic. The abstract geometric designs were said to be influenced by Bribiesca's dual interest and career in architecture. Ashton-Bribiesca were part of the Browns Mill craft co-operative in Parnell, Auckland in the early 1970's. In 1999, Ashton-Bribiesca rings were worn at the WORLD Brand London Fashion Show

In the 1960's, Bribiesca worked for Warren and Mahoney in Christchurch. Soon after, Bribiesca worked for modernist architect Franz Iseke, renowned for his steel framed houses.

In 1985, Bribiesca completed a commission for former Auckland mayor Les Mills to build an extension to the Les Mills International fitness centre on Victoria Street, Auckland. He clad the building in mirror-glazing. In 1986, Bribiesca built a home for his wife at 5A Tonks St, Auckland. The façade consists of mirror glazing bonded with tape to aluminium box sections bracketed off a steel frame with flush windows and a flat roof that was never finished. The plan is an ‘L’ shape. A corrugated aluminium drum houses the bathroom with a circular skylight. The home is 203 sq m, set on a concrete slab. Access to the main bedroom on the second level is by a hand-made industrial steel spiral staircase.

= See also = Miles Warren

Ian Athfield

Category:New Zealand jewellers Category:20th-century New Zealand architects Category:1936 births Category:2019 deaths