Vintage Danish Modernist necklace choker hot red design (ABI)

Description

A wonderful Runway style hot red necklace in the Danish Modernist taste
CONDITION: good vintage condition
SIZE: 14 ins (36 cm)
APPROXIMATE DATE: 1960s – 1970s
MATERIALS: ceramic, bone, metal
DESCRIPTION:
This wonderful Danish modern necklace is not for the faint hearted!
Made in an eye popping combination of red black and white it sits closely about the throat and has an amazing sculptural quality. Disks of cream coloured bone alternate with other ceramic elements in black and white. The main front section stands up from the throat while the creamy coloured beads of the back section terminate in a traditional screw fitting.
Danish modern
is a style of minimalist products associated with the Danish design
movement with a determined desire to produce affordable, well made, wearable works of art handmade by skilled craftsmen.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
As an Art movement Modernism involved a rejection of ornamentation and sought inspiration from technology. Objects influenced by modernism are
concerned primarily with essential qualities of colour and flatness, form and function, and exhibit a reduction of interest in surface decoration.
Modernist ornaments are simple and sculptural. Rather than being embellished with faceted stones they rely upon minimal surface decoration and upon the excitement of movement and drama for their impact. The salient points in this type of design are a concentration upon craftsmanship, integrity of materials and quality of finish.