On the body
Elsa Peretti’s Bone Cuff: When Jewellery Follows the Body
Elsa Peretti’s Bone cuff begins with anatomy: a side-specific, asymmetric silver form whose surface changes with the wrist, light and movement.
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Style & Culture
A watch meets a sleeve. A cuff follows the wrist. A brooch finds its place on cloth. Design changes when an object is worn.
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What changes
in use.
A rectangle at the wrist, a brooch on cloth, a timepiece made to be carried: each asks us to look beyond the isolated object.
Proportion / dress
The Cartier Tank: A Rectangle in Conversation with Dress
A close reading of the Cartier Tank through proportion, brancards, strap, bracelet and the changing frame created by the wrist and the sleeve.
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Placement / movement
The Brooch in Motion: Placement, Gesture and Dress
A brooch changes the line of a garment through placement, scale and movement. This object-led study reads the jewel where cloth and gesture meet.
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Design / history
Before the Wrist: When Timekeeping Was Worn as Jewellery
From an enamelled chatelaine to Santos, Tank, Tutti Frutti and Crash: Cartier shows how time was worn as jewellery before the modern wristwatch became ordinary.
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Form in
another light.
Three stories from our other desks, each close to the questions of scale, movement and making.
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