A colorful Eve Kaplin enamel on metal pin with elements that can be adjusted to create your own design!  About 5-1/2" stretched out lengthwise; fine condition.

Eve Kaplin's jewelry was first created in the 1970s, in New York, where she began a small, but successful business creating unique, whimsical enameled pieces.  Many of these are moveable--either created like mobiles or with rivets that allow parts of pieces to move so that designs can be changed by the wearer.  Sadly, in 1983, after a holiday trip to Brazil, Eve Kaplin died. She was only twenty-eight  and her friends and family wanted to keep her designs alive, so carried on for about ten years after her death with Eve Kaplin Designs, Inc.

Though Eve, herself, never claimed to be a part of the Memphis movement of that era, her pieces are very reminiscent in design and color to decorative arts of that movement--started in Italy by Ettore Sottsass.

Kaplin's pieces are in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City and the Smithsonian Institution's National Design Museum.