A flat brooch, a parallelogram, with an image right of center with colored materials in negative spaces and scratches all over as texture with tiny splatters of paint on left space. Matt finish.

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2002	Work on this object began.
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Brooch

This is a brooch. It was designed by Graziano Visintin. It is dated 2002 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is gold, niello, enamel. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

This brooch by Graziano Visentin, the present director of the Padua School, maintains the school’s characteristic sensitivity to the properties of gold while achieving extraordinary atmospheric effects by applying enamel and black niello to his softly shimmering gold surfaces. Visintin’s design drawing for the brooch, also in the Susan Grant Lewin Collection, reveals his artistic process as he worked out the relationships between form and color.

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

Boot Matchsafe
silver, niello, gilding.
Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
1982-23-214

Drawing, Designs for a Brooch
graphite, black and red color pencil, brush and gold paint on cream wove....
The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
2017-45-1

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Paisley Decoration Matchsafe
silver, copper, niello.
Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
1982-23-56

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Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 9.1 × 7.9 × 1.2 cm (3 9/16 × 3 1/8 × 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

on reverse, along right edge, '.VISINTIN.2002'

Cite this object as

Brooch; Designed by Graziano Visintin (Italian, b. 1954); gold, niello, enamel; H x W x D: 9.1 × 7.9 × 1.2 cm (3 9/16 × 3 1/8 × 1/2 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-117

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/2kgsXV/
Accession Number 2016-34-117
Object ID 874387579