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Ring
This is a ring. It was designed by Giampaolo Babetto. It is dated 1995 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is gold with applied resin. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
The Padua School produced some of the most notable art jewelers of the late twentieth century. Giampaolo Babetto stands out as the pre-eminent figure among them, particularly for his exploriations of spatial relations and structures strongly influenced by the mathematical proportions found in Palladian buildings. Babetto used combinations of parallelograms to create dynamic counterpoints between the closed and open structure in this ring.
This object was
donated by
Susan Lewin.
It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- Brooch (USA)
- resin, copper, metal.
- Gift of Armand G. Winfield.
- 1993-76-3
- Brooch
- synthetic resin, bronze, enamel on copper, gold foil, plywood.
- Gift of Helen Williams Drutt English in honor of the artist, Thomas Gentille.
- 1992-98-1
- Candlestick (USA)
- glass.
- 1948-27-1-a,b
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
![A vertical gouache postcard with a large orange rectangle taking up the majority of the space, the rectangle is largely filled with three beige cubes with black shadows decreasing in size from top to bottom, the largest cube veering towards the right, the medium sized cube veering towards the left and the smallest cube placed in the center. Black capitalised German text is written underneath in a small beige field which reads [BAUHAUS AUSSTELLUNG WEIMAR IUNI - SEPT. 23], meaning [Bauhaus Exhibition Weimar June to September 1923.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/358837_0003703c3e7762d2_n.jpg "Design For Postcard, Bauhaus Ausstellung Weimar (Bauhaus Exhibition Weimar), 1923")
- Design For Postcard, Bauhaus Ausstellung Weimar (Bauhaus Exhibition Weimar),...
- gouache.
- Collection of Merrill C. Berman.
- 15.2019.3
- Finger Ring (Spain)
- silver, plexiglass.
- Gift of Elaine Lustig Cohen Gift of Elaine Lustig Cohen.
- 1997-59-10
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 2 × 3.5 × 4 cm (13/16 × 1 3/8 × 1 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On interior face; '173-PD-, on second face 'BABETTO.1995.' (Note PD denotes Palladium)
Cite this object as
Ring; Designed by Giampaolo Babetto (Italian, b. 1947); gold with applied resin; H x W x D: 2 × 3.5 × 4 cm (13/16 × 1 3/8 × 1 9/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-2
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.
