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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
- maple, electroformed copper, brass, silver, carved plexiglas, delrin, gold leaf.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
- 1998-14-1-a/c
- Necklace (Norway)
- steel, gold, silver, mother-of-pearl.
- Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds and....
- 1984-83-1
- Haircomb Haircomb
- tortoiseshell, metal, 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.
