Three brooches housed in box with 15 skeins of black thread.

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Heimat Set Of Three Brooches And Holder, 2004

This is a Set of three Brooches and Holder. It was designed by Iris Eichenberg. It is dated 2004 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is metal, thread skeins, cardboard (box). It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

With Eichenberg’s brooches from the Heimat series (roughly translated as Home or Homeland) one enters a very personal world where thread and other components, presented in a sewing box-like container, are suggestive of warmth and healing.

This object was donated by Susan Lewin. It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Six skeins of yarn in various shades of green. Yarn purchased from a Scottish supplier and dyed by members of the Society.

Skeins Of Yarn (Scotland (Yarn)), ca. 1910
linen.
Gift of Margery B. Howe.
1985-68-12-a/g

Poster with a black and white photographic image of a woman removing freshly-baked biscuits from oven, set against a blue printed background, on the bottom half. On the top half of the design, the background is composed of red polka dots on a white background, and the title "A Better Home" appears within a central band of blue in an ovoid shape positioned diagonally.

Poster, A Better Home, 1941
offset lithograph and screenprint on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Edward C. Post and from Friends of....
1995-106-2

Tooled gold and black enamel hair locket, round. inscribed on inner gold disk with "My secons on Gerardus, Dec. 6th 1864." Inscription surrounded by outer enamelled circle by engraved inscription: "In memory of."

Locket (USA), 19th century
gold, enamel, hair.
Gift of Mrs. Gerard P. Herrick..
1959-81-2

Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.

Poster, Memory Image/Sense of Mem
Gift of Katherine McCoy.
1995-162-1

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 6 × 25.1 × 18.3 cm (2 3/8 × 9 7/8 × 7 3/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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Cite this object as

Heimat Set Of Three Brooches And Holder, 2004; Designed by Iris Eichenberg (German, b. 1965); metal, thread skeins, cardboard (box); H x W x D: 6 × 25.1 × 18.3 cm (2 3/8 × 9 7/8 × 7 3/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-23-a/s

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/R36za/
Accession Number 2016-34-23-a/s
Object ID 554917271