Handmade Designer Necklaces of Modernist Betty Cook

A friend from Baltimore Maryland introduced me to the necklaces of Betty Cook. My friend lived near her shop called The Store Ltd. in the village of Cross Keys, and  purchased many necklaces there.  The necklaces my friend owns are geometric structures made from silver and gold tubes.  They are light of scale and wander asymmetrically over the neck and torso.

The Betty Cook necklace above is on sale on the website http://www.auerbachmaffia.com. It is item 683462.  This is a website  with  an extensive collection of modernist jewelry and art for sale. I highly recommend it.

Marbeth Schon, an authority on Modernist and contemporary jewelry, calls Betty Cook an "icon within the tradition of Modernist Jewelry".  The sculptural  Betty Cook necklace shown  above is wood and silver on leather cord. It is an example of the adage less is more. More of her necklaces can be seen on M. Schon 's website, www.mschon.com.  Betty Cook's store in Baltimore, The Store Ltd. is still in Business.  I like her aesthetic.