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Wire Jewellery: The Inimitable Alexander Calder
American Alexander Sandy Calder created spatial sculptures of wire and thus became famous. He invented wonderful moving figures — mobiles, and later created large sculptures — stabiles, which adorned the public spaces of many cities. Calder had another hobby, wire jewellery, which he began to create for his sister’s dolls in his childhood. New creative finds of the sculptor have always been…