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Ingredients Necklace, 2008

This is a necklace. It was designed by Iris Bodemer. It is dated 2008 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is pyrite, glass, gold, wool, kevlar. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Bodemer’s necklace reflects processes of attraction and repulsion portrayed through contrasting soft and hard, organic and inorganic recycled materials.

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

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Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 24.5 × 22 × 3 cm (9 5/8 × 8 11/16 × 1 3/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Back of clasp: Stamped: "IRIS BODEMER / [square cypher] / 750"

Cite this object as

Ingredients Necklace, 2008; Designed by Iris Bodemer (German, b.1970); pyrite, glass, gold, wool, kevlar; H x W x D: 24.5 × 22 × 3 cm (9 5/8 × 8 11/16 × 1 3/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-11

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

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