Every few years a new gadget arrives and someone calls it the future. I kept wondering what a silversmith from 1610 would call it.

So for the Contra × Recraft Archive Style Challenge,

I found a silver dish made by Adam van Vianen in 1610. It’s in the Rijksmuseum’s public domain collection, covered in engraved leaves and scrollwork. I turned it into a custom Recraft Style and gave it a brief he could never have imagined: a scooter, headphones, a drone, a game controller.

The result is Silver Service, the first collection from Hollow & Argent, a silver house that has existed since 1610 (it hasn’t, I made it up).

Eight pieces: a speaker, a scooter, a phone, a drone, headphones, a game controller, a takeaway box and a laptop. Every one is engraved with the same leaves, set on cream with a red oval. The house’s rule is simple: nothing leaves the workshop without leaves on it.

Complete Project: https://www.recraft.ai/project/a35a1090-ae04-4bcc-a892-623d71fac299

I found a pretty cool knight armor at metmuseum.org. I use this as a base reference to generate 9 products, then turn these into a Recraft style. Afterwards I use Recraft model to generate a series of products under St. Galgano brand. --- St. Galgano - A luxury house inspired by the medieval knight. Knighthood was never simply given. A boy began training at seven as a page, then served as a squire to a knight who mentored him in arms, horsemanship and courtesy. Only after more than a decade of discipline could he kneel to be knighted. Our name honors Galgano Guidotti, a 12th-century Tuscan knight who chose a different kind of courage. In 1180, he turned away from combat and drove his sword into a stone on the hill of Montesiepi, where it remains to this day. Some historians believe his story inspired the legend of the sword in the stone. St. Galgano carries that choice into the present. We leave the battle behind and keep what made a knight: discipline, honor, courtesy and loyalty. Every piece is structured like armor and made to last, finished in the colors of the old armorers: heat-blued steel and burnished gold. Chivalry, without the sword.

Reference Object: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23939 Recraft Project: https://www.recraft.ai/project/6eb0002b-8493-41e3-8ddc-6588ee70e470 Recraft Style: https://www.recraft.ai/styles/9c04d86a-98e0-48fe-a906-60d20cff5059 Prompt assistant: Claude (AI) Showreel music: Gemini (AI)