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Mom Brooch

This is a Brooch. It was designed by Ted Noten. It is dated 2009 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is nylon. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Inspired by Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai’s work, 36 Views of Mount Fuji, Noten wanted to depict 36 different “archetypical” women in sculptures. After creating the sculptures from found objects, he had them 3D-scanned and 3D-printed as scaled-down, mass-produced pieces of jewelry.

This object was donated by Susan Lewin. It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

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Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 6 × 13 × 1.6 cm (2 3/8 × 5 1/8 × 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

On reverse: lower right, 3D-printed into surface: © / T.N. 2009 / “MOM”

Cite this object as

Mom Brooch; Designed by Ted Noten (Dutch,born 1956); nylon; H x W x D: 6 × 13 × 1.6 cm (2 3/8 × 5 1/8 × 5/8 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-78

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.

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