
1960s · 1960s · British
Production
artisan-craft
Material
screen-printed acrylic perspex
Culture
British
Movement
Op Art · Space Age
Influences
Op Art movement · Bauhaus geometric design
A modernist pendant necklace featuring a rectangular acrylic perspex panel suspended from a fine metal chain. The pendant displays a bold geometric pattern of alternating black and white triangular segments arranged in a vertical composition, creating an optical illusion effect. The perspex material appears lightweight and translucent, with crisp screen-printed graphics that demonstrate the era's fascination with synthetic materials and geometric abstraction. The simple chain construction allows the pendant to hang freely, emphasizing the graphic impact of the black and white pattern against the body.
That russet shirt's tessellated cubes and the pendant's stark chevron ladder both spring from the same mid-century obsession with geometric precision, but they reveal how Op Art's visual tricks traveled different paths. The shirt domesticates Bauhaus geometry into something wearable for daily life—those interlocking forms creating a subtle optical shimmer across the torso—while the pendant distills the movement's high-contrast drama into pure statement jewelry.
These pieces capture the exact moment when Op Art crashed into jewelry design, turning necks and earlobes into galleries for geometric rebellion. The pendant's razor-sharp triangular facets create the same visual vibration as the earrings' radiating spokes—both using high-contrast patterns to make the eye work overtime, whether through perspex's space-age shimmer or enamel's bold color blocking.
Both pieces pulse with the same Op Art heartbeat that made the 1960s feel like the future had arrived early. The dress's zigzag chevrons in electric citrus tones and the necklace's stark black-and-white geometric squares both emerge from that moment when artists like Bridget Riley were making gallery walls vibrate, and fashion designers seized on screen-printing to translate those optical illusions onto bodies.
The pyramid studs marching down this perspex pendant and the kaleidoscopic geometry exploding across this Italian blouse both spring from Op Art's visual trickery, but they take wildly different approaches to making your eyes work overtime.
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