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Temptation Brooch
This is a Brooch. It was designed by Donald Friedlich. It is dated 2013 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is cast, ground, sandblasted, acid etched and polished glass, anodized niobium, cast and laser welded gold, fabricated silver and gold (setting). It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Utilizing the expressive range of glass, Friedlich’s Temptation Brooch combines vibrant red glass and gold, to recreate Eve’s apple. Part of Friedlich’s Organic Series, this brooch represents his efforts to reveal the beauty and elegance of commonplace objects in a new light.
This object was
donated by
Susan Lewin.
It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- Apple Sculpture
- blown and applied glass.
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiesenberger.
- 1967-66-23
- Drawing, Adam and Eve, The Temptation
- pen and ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
- 1901-39-3225
- Brooch (USA)
- plastic, metal.
- Bequest of Marion Weeber Welsh.
- 2006-2-7
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- UP 3 Chair
- polyurethane foam, fabric.
- Gift of the Estate of Frederick N. Babbish.
- 1991-94-4
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 6.3 × 6 × 1.4 cm (2 1/2 × 2 3/8 × 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On reverse: stamped: FRIEDLICH / 2013© / STERLING/ 22K / 18K
Cite this object as
Temptation Brooch; Designed by Donald Friedlich (American, b. 1954); cast, ground, sandblasted, acid etched and polished glass, anodized niobium, cast and laser welded gold, fabricated silver and gold (setting); H x W x D: 6.3 × 6 × 1.4 cm (2 1/2 × 2 3/8 × 9/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-34
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.
