The Jewelry of Ideas: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection

This renowned collection, built by the New York–based Lewin over several decades and recently donated to Cooper Hewitt, captures the diversity and achievements of art, or studio, jewelry with nearly 150 significant works by designers from the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.The brooches, necklaces and ringsthe majority of which were made in the last 15 yearsreveal how these contemporary jewelers have revolutionized the medium. Radical developments in jewelry from across the world, from traditional metalsmithing to computer-aided designThe Jewelry of Ideas is published in conjunction with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s exhibition celebrating gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection of Contemporary Jewelry. Process statements from each designer and a full gallery of the jewelry accompany the narrative sequence of extraordinary, stirring, uncommon pi