Word: electrum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adds up to what Ralph Turner, director of London's pacesetting Electrum Gallery, describes as "a renaissance. It's like a fresh new stream that is rushing to pour its heart out." An apt word, renaissance, for the New Jewelers are indeed going back to jewelry's birth, rediscovering and freely adapting ancient and traditional patterns, with a sense of excitement much like the Cubists' on their first encounter with primitive art. Traditional Oriental pieces, such as a high one-piece silver collar from Thailand that gives the illusion of being five separate circular necklaces heaped...
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