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"Big City Heart" Pendant
Catherine Iskiw - Friday, February 10, 2012
This is my "Big City " Heart Pendant. It is platinum with 18k gold rivets and a .22 ct. heart shaped diamond. Not for the faint of heart this pieces weighs in at 28.5 pennyweights and measures 26 x 26 x 5 mm. There are 20 pennyweights (abbreviated as dwt.) in a troy ounce. Subtract the weight of the gold rivets and this pendant is still well over an ounce of 950 ruthenium platinum. A 20 " handmade bar chain completes this unusual pendant.
Valentine's Day "City" Heart Pendant
Catherine Iskiw - Friday, February 03, 2012
As Valentine's Day jewelry goes, my " City" Pendant is not your typical sweet little heart. The heavy metal plates, rivets and straight line matte finish create a very industrial looking piece.
One of the first jewelry projects I ever did at Parson's School of Design called for the students to use cold connections, that is, to use mechanical means of connecting pieces rather than soldering them together. I used telescoping rivets, a solid tube within a hollow tube to separate flat pieces of metal. Then the solid tube is hammered out on the top plate to secure the connection. That's how rivets entered my design vocabulary. I want them to always be functional and not just decorative. In this piece, the space between the plates is needed to accommodate the depth of the burnish set diamond and ruby.
You can see more details about the "CIty" Pendant on my site.
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