Worn Architecture: Exploring Sculptural Jewelry of the Mid-century
Part of Docomomo US/Colorado’s Modernism Series
Wednesday, August 12, 2026 @ 7PM
Location: TBA
$28.52
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This illustrated talk and salon-style exploration examines the bold, sculptural jewelry that emerged during the mid-century modern era.
What happens when the ideas that transformed architecture, furniture, and industrial design find their way onto the body?
This illustrated talk and salon-style exploration examines the bold, sculptural jewelry that emerged during the mid-century modern era. Through the work of influential makers such as Margaret De Patta, Art Smith, and other studio jewelers, we'll explore how abstraction, movement, negative space, and material experimentation reshaped jewelry into wearable expressions of modernist design.
Together, we'll look beyond adornment to discover how jewelry reflected the same cultural and artistic forces that shaped the postwar modern world. Through images, design analysis, and selected objects, attendees will explore how artists translated the language of sculpture into pieces meant to be worn, lived with, and experienced.
Hosted in an architecturally significant mid-century modern home, this intimate event blends design history, collecting, and object study, inviting guests to explore modernism from structure to scale, from building to body.
Perfect for architecture enthusiasts, jewelry lovers, collectors, designers, and the design-curious alike.
Presented by Dana Sednek, founder of RetroStarr Vintage, a vintage fine jewelry brand celebrating the bold, the glamorous, and the storied.