Margaret De Patta’s rutilated-quartz-and-onyx ring from 1954 exhibits the
qualities typical of her
oeuvre, where the organic,
the handmade, and
machine-tooled intersect. As Museum of Arts and Design curator Ursula Ilse-Neuman puts it, “It’s very unusual for a jeweler
to be that interested in constructivism and the Bauhaus movement.”