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Hot Bed Brooch And Case

This is a Brooch and Case. It was designed by Kiff Slemmons and made by Bruce Metcalf. It is dated 2006 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is silver, carved wood fragment, coral (brooch); handmade paper (box). It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

This brooch is part of a series in which Slemmons “repaired” or finished the incomplete work of other jewelers whose work she admired. Here, Slemmons placed Bruce Metcalf’s carved emaciated and faceless figure on a silver nest with coral flames to evoke “a hotbed of ideas.”

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

Figure Pin #147 (Wingnut and Errant Dandelion) Brooch With Holder

Figure Pin #147 (Wingnut and Errant Dandelion) Brooch With Holder
maple, electroformed copper, brass, silver, carved plexiglas, delrin, gold leaf.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1998-14-1-a/c

This necklace is made of silver, covered with dense, overlapping rows of hammered, flattened feather-like steel nails. There is a row of small, gold pod forms along inner edge, and for the clasp, it is large and covered by roughly square pale rose mother-of-pearl with gold fastenings. Although made of metal, the necklace gives the appearance of dark, slender feathers, with the inner collar dense with dark gold clasps, where the pods and steel nails are attached.

Necklace (Norway)
steel, gold, silver, mother-of-pearl.
Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds and....
1984-83-1

Comb (Italy)
cut and steam-bent tortoiseshell, gilt silver, carved coral.
Gift of the estate and in memory of Robert B. Noyes.
1946-50-70

Its dimensions are

H x W x D (Brooch): 11.2 × 6.4 × 2.5 cm (4 7/16 in. × 2 1/2 in. × 1 in.) H x W x D (Box opened): 7.5 × 32.6 × 22 cm (2 15/16 × 12 13/16 × 8 11/16 in.) H x W x D (Box closed): 6 × 16 × 20 cm (2 3/8 × 6 5/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

It has the following markings

No marks

Cite this object as

Hot Bed Brooch And Case; Designed by Kiff Slemmons (American, b. 1944); Made by Bruce Metcalf (American, b. 1949); silver, carved wood fragment, coral (brooch); handmade paper (box); H x W x D (Brooch): 11.2 × 6.4 × 2.5 cm (4 7/16 in. × 2 1/2 in. × 1 in.) H x W x D (Box opened): 7.5 × 32.6 × 22 cm (2 15/16 × 12 13/16 × 8 11/16 in.) H x W x D (Box closed): 6 × 16 × 20 cm (2 3/8 × 6 5/16 × 7 7/8 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-72-a,b

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

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/R36Bv/
Accession Number 2016-34-72-a,b
Object ID 554917407