Hervé Van der Straeten hand hammered bronze earrings" Herv Van der Straeten's work begins with a sketch. An engineer turned art student, turned jeweler and designer, he fills his bound notebooks, which are never out of his reach, with drawings and doodlings, page after page, in which imagination, set loose, conceives a mirror, that mutates into an earring, that becomes a light fixture, that fades into a lipstick case. When he draws, traditional boundaries between object, art and design become obsolete.