Please join us for our fall Jewelry Detectives event, Dorothy Liebes: The Mystery of the Matching Cuffs–-with Charlotte von Hardenburgh, design historian and Research Fellow for the current exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Dorothy Liebes (1897–1972) was an American textile designer, weaver, and color authority. She had a profound influence across a variety of design fields, shaping American tastes in areas from interiors and transportation to industrial design, fashion, and film.
von Hardenburgh will introduce us to the “Liebes Look” which combined vivid color, lush texture, and often a glint of metallic. This combination also translated into Liebes’s own fashion philosophy, the “bright” of her ensembles was often a stunning Mexican silver necklace, a flamboyant brooch—or her signature matching metallic cuffs. Whose jewelry did Liebes wear and why? von Hardenburgh’s detective work will lead to a major discovery, along with surprising twists that round out this deep dive into Liebes’s powerful impact on twentieth century design.
A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes published by Cooper Hewitt and Yale University Press will be available for sale at this event.
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The Jewelry Library (TJL) is a collaborative space curated for jewelry people by jewelry people. Founded in 2018, TJL hosts a wide range of exhibitions, talks, and events all across the jewelry-spectrum, collaborating with both contemporary and vintage gallerists, artists, and collectors, as well as storytellers, historians, makers, and wearers. Along with an archive, library, and gallery space–which houses the TJL collection of books and jewelry–there is a penthouse space, The Great Room @ The Jewelry Library, for larger community gatherings, and next door, the new Shop@TJL, opening this fall.