Art of Candy: Maayan Zilberman turns candy into art
Delicate lingerie and sticky sweets? It goes together about as well as Gwyneth Paltrow and spray-canned cheddar. In fact, not at all. We remember: In an interview, the actress once mentioned that she would rather take drugs than ever try liquid industrial cheese.
But back to the lingerie figure, for which excessive sugar consumption is, let's say, rather semi-optimal. Maayan Zilberman from New York has found a solution that is as artistic as it is clever: The 36-year-old, who celebrated success as a designer of luxury underwear until 2013, now designs sweets that are far too beautiful to eat.
You could call what Zilberman creates in her studio in Brooklyn candy couture and causes quite a stir. Especially during Fashion Week!
The fact that you experience a real sugar shock (in a positive sense) when you see your sweets is mainly due to their appearance. In contrast to the plastic-wrapped standard sweets on supermarket shelves, Zilberman's creations are also a real visual delight.
Whether colorful, glittering USB sticks, Rolex watches with 24-carat gold dust, lipsticks, eyes or mixtapes - there is hardly an item that the New Yorker hasn't sweetened up. Some of them, such as the sparkling gemstones, are ideal for keeping in a jewelry box.
The name of her company, “Sweet Saba”, is a homage to her grandfather. The Israeli experimented with it in the kitchen as a little girl.
The flavors are as unusual as the candy creations. How about champagne, bacon, whiskey, jasmine or the taste of the Dead Sea? Meanwhile, the candy couturière's imagination knows no limits. Next, she wants to enrich her design sweets with vitamins. And by then, “smoothie” junkie Gwyneth Paltrow will probably be convinced.
Info: If you want to taste Maayan Zilberman's delicious works of art, you can buy them online or at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Sweet Saba's official Instagram channel is delicious to look at without any calories.
Photos: Sweet Saba; Jason Lewis (Portrait of Mayaan Zilberman)
