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Charlotte Metcalf

Wednesday, 5th September 2007

Charlotte Metcalf talks to Theo Fennell about his revolutionary exhibition

Tucked away discreetly behind Piccadilly, the Museum of Mankind is a venerable institution, reeking with academic respectability. Yet later this month it’s set to explode our preconceptions with an extraordinary jewellery exhibition. Entitled Show Off, the exhibition’s aim is to do for jewellery what the Tate did for Pop Art in the Sixties or, more recently, what Shock of the New did for Young British Artists — quite simply, force us to look at jewellery differently. The creator of this thought-provoking and breathtakingly original exhibition is Theo Fennell.

Spectator readers probably associate Theo Fennell merely with celebrity bling. For years he has been pigeonholed as a purveyor of gigantic, colourful glitz to the rich and famous. His flagship South Kensington store is aglow with rubies, sapphires, tourmalines, green citrines, mandarin garnets, yellow beryls and black diamonds that adorn his trademark scorpion rings, jewelled skulls, winged hearts and ampoules. Fennell’s creations are not for the faint-hearted and it’s no surprise that Fennell has a reputation for being a dashing, larger-than-life bon viveur.

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