Singular Multiples

The multiple, in its relations with art and industry, is the starting point for an investigation into the evolution of jewelry design. In going beyond an obsolete notion of industrial serial production, contempo¬rary jewelry stands out as a highly innovative field of research, for its ability to understand the object through new esthetics, meanings and materials, towards an idea of a singular multiple. The book concludes with the story of a collective design experience that involved several figures of the contemporary jewelry scene in Italy, through the organization of co-projects and workshops, aimed at the dissemination of a design culture that takes into consideration new technologies and digital processes currently under way.