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Necklace
Michele De Lucchi Italian
Manufacturer Cleto Munari Italian
Not on view
De Lucchi was a member of the design collective Studio Alchymia as well as Memphis. Like Sottsass, he aims to create an updated rendition of modernism that looks to the past for inspiration but moves forward with new iconography, forms, and symbols. He views jewelry as a statement by both the designer and the wearer that broadcasts their intellectual interests. This necklace reads as a manifesto of postmodernism, a self-conscious pastiche of various metals and stones in an exaggerated display of articulations, joinery, and links. When asked in an interview about the language of his jewelry, De Lucchi explained that he composes stones, shapes, metals, and textures to reach a reformed idea of preciousness.
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