Taras Yoom introduces the Diamond Age collection at PAD London 2025
The Diamond Age collection by Bangkok-based artist Taras Yoom marks a refined evolution in his ongoing Yoomoota art universe, where craftsmanship meets conceptual narrative. Created in partnership with GASP Diamonds, this limited-edition series captures a dialogue between material precision and philosophical reflection.
Each piece, crafted in silver and adorned with both natural and lab-grown diamonds, acts as a sculptural meditation on wealth, human ambition, and the balance between progress and preservation. Presented at PAD London 2025, the collection introduces two works that embody a vision of elegance and restraint shaped by technical mastery and symbolic depth.
At the heart of the series stands Another Kingdom: Diamond Age, a chess set that expands upon Yoom’s acclaimed gaming line. The board becomes a site of quiet tension, where rival forces stand in balance rather than conflict. The gleam of silver and the clarity of diamonds replace aggression with contemplation, framing each piece as a vessel of meaning rather than mere ornament.
The 32 figures, each embedded with an NFC digital certificate, carry both aesthetic and technological value, bridging the physical and digital realms. Crafted in two editions, one featuring 21 sets with lab-grown diamonds and another 11 with natural gems, the work channels 55 carats of brilliance into a meditation on power transformed by awareness.
Complementing the chess set is Old Money: Diamond Age, a sculpture that shifts Yoom’s signature form into a new material register. Previously realized in plastic, this edition replaces synthetics with silver and genuine banknotes withdrawn from circulation across more than fifteen countries.
Layers of currency are sealed using the artist’s acrylic-baking technique, preserving every note’s tactile and chromatic identity. The result is an object both archival and luminous—a contemporary relic that questions the nature of value in an era of digital and financial abstraction. Through this transformation, Yoom repositions wealth as a cultural artifact rather than a measure of accumulation.
The Diamond Age series embodies Yoom’s ongoing investigation into the human condition through material storytelling. By merging artisanal rigor with conceptual inquiry, the artist presents wealth not as an endpoint but as a mirror of personal evolution.
Within the refined surface of silver and diamond lies a call toward introspection, an invitation to reconsider the symbols of power and permanence that define modern civilization.
All images courtesy ofTaras Yoom, shared with permission
