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Tropical Punch Necklace
This is a necklace. It was designed by Axel Russmeyer. It is dated 2006 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is glass, crystal, resin, metal and plastic beads, ribbon, thread, gold. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Russmeyer has a longstanding fascination with beads and is interested in their legacy as historic objects, amulets, and social symbols across a variety of cultures. His work focuses on color and texture and the juxtaposition of these two elements. This colorful necklace is composed of “beaded beads,” each of which Russmeyer considers a complete work.
This object was
donated by
Susan Lewin.
It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- Drawing, Design for a Necklace
- brush and gouache, gold paint, black marking pen on tracing paper.
- Museum purchase from the Monet Fund.
- 1984-54-2-1
- Textile, Bola
- cotton.
- Gift of Creation Baumann.
- 1992-126-2
- Beads
- stone.
- 1962-188-2
Our curators have highlighted 3 objects that are related to this one.
- Necklace (Austria)
- gold-plated metal, metal, fiber, bronze (clasp).
- Museum purchase from the Monet Fund.
- 1984-54-1
- Apologies to Kandinsky Necklace
- polymer clay, metal.
- Gift of Michael and Ruth Anne Grove.
- 1992-172-1
- Thorn Beads Necklace Necklace
- polymer clay, metal wire.
- Gift of Julie: Artisans' Gallery, New York, and Pier Voulkos.
- 1993-82-1
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 41 ×11 × 3.7 cm (16 1/8 in. × 4 5/16 in. × 1 7/16 in.)
It has the following markings
No marks or tags
Cite this object as
Tropical Punch Necklace; Designed by Axel Russmeyer (German, b. 1964); glass, crystal, resin, metal and plastic beads, ribbon, thread, gold; H x W x D: 41 ×11 × 3.7 cm (16 1/8 in. × 4 5/16 in. × 1 7/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-95
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.
