Solid sterling 16" CHOKER slim collar panel NECKLACE. Modernist designer BAYANIHAN, recognizable vintage quality. Classy with an hotsell edge.

DESCRIPTION:
ca. 1970: Solid sterling silver 16" panel choker necklace by collectible high end design house Bayanihan. Classy, classic slim line of light around your neck, but with a subtle edgy industrial feel...Modernist aesthetic at it's finest. Recognizable vintage quality, perfect for your everyday signature look. I am obsessed with this designer's work. It has it all...superbly artisan hand crafted high end look, solid weight in sterling silver, great high design, collectible classic Modernist with a fresh, organic aspect. I love it. Wearable art. You will love this piece.

WEIGHT:
29.9 grams

SIZE / MEASUREMENTS:
16 inches long x 3/16 inch wide.

MARKINGS / HALLMARKS:
Stamped 'BAYANIHAN' and '925' for sterling silver.

MATERIALS:
Sterling silver

CONDITION:
Beautiful vintage condition with only the light surface burnish on the metal expected in a piece of this age. I clean vintage pieces by gently washing with dish soap (vintage patina is good, vintage dirt and germs are bad…yuck!) Then I will often give a quick surface buff with a silver cleaning cloth to bring up the contrast, leaving the natural patina of age in the details to enhance the beauty.

GIFT BOX INCLUDED: Ready to give or just to enjoy!

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MORE ABOUT BAYANIHAN:
Bayanihan Jewelry Company was established by renowned modernist, W. Thomas Burns in 1974. Burns worked for the Peace Corp in the Philippines before returning home to Massachusetts and starting his shop. The highly sought after original design pieces that he created in his artisan shop were an outgrowth of his Peace Corps experience in the Philippines and collaborating with Avant Gard artists of the day in the Boston and New York area. Bayanihan means working together in Pilipino, and it was a lifestyle he embraced by being very active in the arts, including working with a dance company, until his death in 1989.

Modernist jewelers had much in common with painters, sculptors, and other modern artists. Their ambitious goal was to create one-of-a-kind works of art that people could wear. Modernism in Bayanihan design manifest as the abstraction of the natural world by reducing the subject to its absolute minimal lines and form, but remaining evocative of its source. Burn's designs referenced his Philippines experience and his motifs were flowers, a wave in the ocean, a tropical leaf, all done with a single ‘stroke' or line, and using the maker's mark of ‘Bayanihan'.

After its founder's death hotsell in 1989, the company continued on as Bayanihan LTD, and is still in existence today as a wholesale jewelry making shop, producing high end unique designs from a small shop of 10 people. The high-quality of this artisan brand is well known among collectors of fine Modernist jewelry.

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MORE ABOUT MODERNISM;
Modernism is a technique, thought, discussion, creative work or genre of art and literature that breaks from the classical mold or that is considered cutting-edge. Modernism refers to a global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life. Building on late nineteenth-century precedents, artists around the world used new imagery, materials and techniques to create artworks that they felt better reflected the realities and hopes of modern societies.

The terms modernism and modern art are generally used to describe the succession of art movements that critics and historians have identified since the realism of Gustav Courbet and culminating in abstract art and its developments in the 1960s. Although many different styles are encompassed by the term, there are certain underlying principles that define modernist art: A rejection of history and conservative values (such as realistic depiction of subjects); innovation and experimentation with form (the shapes, colors and lines that make up the work) with a tendency to abstraction; and an emphasis on materials, techniques and processes. Modernism has also been driven by various social and political agendas. These were often Utopian, and modernism was in general associated with ideal visions of human life and society and a belief in progress. By the 1960s modernism had become a dominant idea of art.