When Does a Contemporary Jewellery Piece Become a Classic? Future Classics.

Why Future Classics? Our aim is not to define academic criteria or impose any form of conservatism, but to collect subjective perspectives that help us understand the values and expectations shaping our field, without reducing them to fixed rules or hierarchies. By sharing these voices, we invite you to think together and open a conversation about durability, relevance, and the ways particular works contain certain patterns or enigmas that make them continue to speak over time.

With this series, Klimt02 invite professionals and researchers in contemporary jewellery and art history to reflect on what, in their view, makes a piece a classic. Our intention is to gather insights, almost like collecting data in an ongoing study, so that patterns, resonances, and shared intuitions may gradually emerge.

We began this discussion in this article: How and When a Piece becomes a Classic? Spotlight Artworks by Klimt02