Kadri Mälk (1958) – a well known jewelry designer with numerous of valuable awards both in Estonia and abroad. Joanna Adler has said: Mälk is a tree on a bleak area. However she tries, lightening hits on her. She is like a tree of sacrifice bringing the flashes around her into pieces of jewelry. There are things that she tears down back to the basic elements. She knows they wont ever get completely finished.
Her jewels are rich of symbolic details, the author lays special emphasis on the magical-protective meaning of it. Estonian actress Elle Kull has said: After seeing Kadri`s jewels nothing allures me in common jewelry stores. I value individuality in a jewel and Kadri`s jewels seem visually primeval and beautiful to me. There is a power inside. Wearing her jewels makes me feel good and self-reliant.
