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Necklace
Robert Venturi American
Manufacturer Cleto Munari Italian
Not on view
Venturi is better known as an architect than a jewelry designer. Favoring representational rather than abstract design, he incorporates architectural elements in his jewelry, referencing, for example, a Greek temple or a hot-air balloon. He especially admires Egyptian and Indian jewelry. For this necklace he combined conical elements in gold and semiprecious stones with one gold sphere to create a striking piece that borrows from the past but adopts the reductivist forms of modernism.
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