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Maraccibio Necklace

Marco Zanini Italian
Designer Memphis Milano Italian
Manufacturer ACME Studio, Inc.
1985
Not on view
The Maraccibio necklace is part of a collection of jewelry designed for Memphis Milano. The collection debuted at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in 1986, along with other Memphis works. This necklace embodies the colorful, playful aesthetic unique to the group, with semiotic allusions to Egyptian amuletic jewelry rendered in more common, inexpensive materials. In his essay "Disegno magico" (Magic Design), Sottsass writes about transferring the magic properties that ancient peoples invested in their objects into his own abstractions.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Maraccibio Necklace
  • Artist: Marco Zanini (Italian, born Trento, 1954)
  • Designer: Memphis Milano
  • Manufacturer: ACME Studio, Inc.
  • Date: 1985
  • Medium: Enameled metal, rubber and metal
  • Dimensions: 8 1/2 × 5 3/4 × 3/16 in. (21.6 × 14.6 × 0.5 cm)
  • Classification: Jewelry
  • Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2017
  • Object Number: 2017.104.19
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Marco Zanini
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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