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Clockwork Love Wings Gold Necklace In Box
This is a Necklace in box. It was designed by Frank Tjepkema. It is dated 2009 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is chemically etched, gold-plated stainless steel (necklace, key and tag); wood (box). It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
This necklace is composed of multiple layers of gears constructed in the shape of a heart with wings. Tjepkema uses this intricate form to convey how "matters of the heart are never simple," and are composed of moments in life, assembled like a complex clockwork and include a tiny key to the heart.
This object was
donated by
Susan Lewin.
It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- Drawing, Textile Design
- colored pencil on white paper.
- 1988-22-4
- Chanin Building Gate
- wrought iron, bronze.
- Gift of Marcy Chanin.
- 1993-135-2
- Drawing, Heart Motif, Textile Design
- brush and gouache on paper.
- Gift of Donald Cameron.
- 1992-51-68
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 49 × 9.4 × 1.5 cm (19 5/16 × 3 11/16 × 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On reverse, gold square stamped, 'Clockwork Love Wings/Tjep'
Cite this object as
Clockwork Love Wings Gold Necklace In Box; Designed by Frank Tjepkema (Dutch, b. 1970); chemically etched, gold-plated stainless steel (necklace, key and tag); wood (box); H x W x D: 49 × 9.4 × 1.5 cm (19 5/16 × 3 11/16 × 9/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-111-a/d
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.
