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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 625615, member: 2844&quot;]Well, you can&#039;t go wrong with a full shoebox for £4, can you? And you didn&#039;t!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It is a Modernist necklace, inspired by the Constructivist style. I&#039;d guess it was made in Germany in the 1960s, maybe earlier, and not by a bloke in a shed. Blokes in sheds in Continental Europe rarely make jewellery, they stick to woodwork etc., &quot;blokey stuff&quot;.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Constructivism was originally a Russian Modernist art movement in the early 20th century. It inspired other Continental Modernist styles like Bauhaus and De Stijl.</p><p>The legacy of Constructivism is mainly found in the northern part of Continental Europe. The Dutch and Germans in particular love it, and you can see why.</p><p><br /></p><p>To get an idea, here is a 1919 Constructivist painting by El Lissitzky:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/%27Proun_Vrashchenia%27_by_El_Lissitzky%2C_ca._1919.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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