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DECORATIVE ARTS, JEWELRY, CERAMICS, GLASS, TEXTILES

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Hardcover, 7 x 9 in. / 176 pgs / 225 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 78   

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ISBN 9781942303183 TRADE
List Price: $40.00 CDN $54.00

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EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

New York
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 11/10/17–04/30/18

Radical developments in jewelry from across the world, from traditional metalsmithing to computer-aided design

BOOKSELLER TRADE ANNOTATION

Superb " Studio Art" jewelry from the past two decades, on view at Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
  • ABOUT THE BOOK: Art Jewelry from the last 20 years, book has big plate section with detailed photos of the pieces - necklaces, rings and brooches. Book is printed in 5 colors throughout -- affordably priced at $40
  • ABOUT THE COLLECTOR: New York based Susan Grant Levin is owner and founder of the a public relations agency bearing her name. Clients include Stephen Holl Architects, Design Trust for Public Space, and Van Alen Institute. She was an editor at House Beautiful.
  • A book about Levin's collection was published in 1994 with Abrams One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today) now OP.
  • ABOUT PROMO: Exhibition of this jewelry will be on view at Cooper Hewitt Design Museum this Fall.
  • ABOUT AUTHORS Ursula Ilse-Neuman is Curator Emerita at the Museum of Arts and Design( MAD) New York.

  

COOPER HEWITT, SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM

The Jewelry of Ideas

The Susan Grant Lewin Collection

Foreword by Caroline Baumann. Preface by Susan Grant Lewin. Edited with text by Ursula-Ilse Neuman. Text by Thomas Gentille.

Radical developments in jewelry from across the world, from traditional metalsmithing to computer-aided design

The Jewelry of Ideas is published in conjunction with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s exhibition celebrating gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection of Contemporary Jewelry. This renowned collection, built by the New York–based Lewin over several decades and recently donated to Cooper Hewitt, captures the diversity and achievements of art, or studio, jewelry with nearly 150 significant works by designers from the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.

The brooches, necklaces and rings—the majority of which were made in the last 15 years—reveal how these contemporary jewelers have revolutionized the medium. Many take their cues from age-old jewelry conventions but transform them into expressions of our time. Others confront social, political or highly personal concerns using unconventional materials and techniques that range from traditional metalsmithing to computer-aided design.

Among the more than 100 featured designers are Giampaolo Babetto, Gijs Bakker, Friedrich Becker, David Bielander, Iris Eichenberg, Eva Eisler, Sandra Enterline, Arline Fisch, Thomas Gentille, Herman Hermsen, John Iversen, Daniel Jocz, Herman Jünger, Jiro Kamata, Otto Künzli, Bruno Martinazzi, Bruce Metcalf, Dorothea Prühl, Wendy Ramshaw, Joyce Scott, Kiff Slemmons and Art Smith.

Descriptions of specific works demonstrate that while the mastery of materials and techniques is critical to the creative process, it is not an end in itself, but only the means to accomplish an aesthetic vision. Process statements from each designer and a full gallery of the jewelry accompany the narrative sequence of extraordinary, stirring, uncommon pieces from this consummate collection.


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