April 16, 2024
BILL TENDLER Early NYC MODERNIST; SS Bracelet; Rare; NR
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This BILL TENDLER STERLING SILVER BRACELET is a wonderful example of modernist design. He wrapped a flat, circular band with a thick square silver wire that sits both above and below the band. The wire is attached to the band at the edges only, leaving very slender gaps on the sides and more pronounced spaces on top and bottom. As you can see, the wire is parallel to and above the flat band, then is angled down, across the sides, to level out again, below the band. T are narrow strips of oxidation on the band beneath the wire, accenting its transit. Both of my reference books on modernist jewelry -- Marbeth Schon's Modernist Jewelry 1930-1960: The Wearable Art Movement, and Toni Greenbaum's Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry 1940-1960 -- have sections on Tendler and his work, and both authors included pictures of his jewelry. They note that he had several shops in New York's Greenwich Village between 1952 and 1981, and that he was a contemporary of other modernist luminaries such as Ed Levin, Paul Lobel, and Sam Kramer. His jewelry is also featured in Nancy Schiffer's Silver Jewelry Designs; she included pictures of pieces in the same family as this bracelet, combining flat silver with square wire. T is not much of Tendler's work available for sale, judging by my online searches; I suspect the original buyers are holding
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