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Coldstar Necklace
This is a necklace. It was designed by Helen Britton. It is dated 2012. Its medium is silver, molded plastic, lacquer. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Helen Britton is an inveterate collector of materials from where ever she works and travels. Her studio is filled with nascent treasures from the banal to the exotic, ready to be transformed into unexpected jewelry compositions such as the molded plastic and silver in this elegant Coldstar Necklace, part of her “Dekorationswut” series (roughly translated as “decoration rage”).
It is credited Promised gift to the Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- Textile, Galaxis Star
- polyester.
- Gift of Sacho Hesslein.
- 1993-86-3
- Brooch (USA)
- copper, silver, bronze, brass, 14k gold.
- Museum purchase from Monet Jewelry Fund.
- 1980-75-6
- Brooch (Germany)
- steel wire, silver, lacquer.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Harry Paine Bingham and Eleanor and....
- 1999-20-1
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- Hanakarakusa W Brooch
- gold powder, gold beads, egg shells, mother-of-pearl, colored lacquer....
- Gift of Van Cleef and Arpels.
- 2011-42-2
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 41 × 18 × 0.9 cm (16 1/8 × 7 1/16 × 3/8 in.)
It has the following markings
red pigment dot applied to link where clasp would be (behind neck), cipher stamped on dot
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.
