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Brooch
This is a Brooch. It was designed by Peter Skubic. It is dated 2001 and we acquired it in 2022. Its medium is cut, polished, assembled and cold-connected stainless steel sheets and steel cable. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Skubic’s brooch is connected through compression and tension using springs and magnets as well as fine steel “cables” for stability. The surfaces of his overlapping planar steel components function as highly polished mirrors to reflect light brilliantly so that their materiality seems to dissolve while they simultaneously create fragmented views of their surroundings in reverse, as the jewelry moves with the wearer.
This object was
donated by
Susan Lewin.
It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- Bracelet (USA)
- aluminum, onyx, silver.
- Gift of Helen Kornblum.
- 2013-29-1
- Brooch (Japan)
- stainless steel.
- Gift of Gallery 91, New York.
- 1990-17-1
- Steel Tongue Stool Prototype
- wrapped and interwoven aluminum strips.
- The Linda and Irwin R. Berman Stool Collection.
- 2013-50-41
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- # 534 Brooch
- stainless steel, niobium.
- Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
- 1993-112-2-a/c
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 14 × 8.5 × 9.4 cm (5 1/2 × 3 3/8 × 3 11/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Etched on reverse, at top of closure: SKUBIC 01
Cite this object as
Brooch; Designed by Peter Skubic (Austrian, b. Serbia, 1935); cut, polished, assembled and cold-connected stainless steel sheets and steel cable; H x W x D: 14 × 8.5 × 9.4 cm (5 1/2 × 3 3/8 × 3 11/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2022-42-5
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.
