Kandinsky Triangle, Circle & Square Earrings

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In 1923, Wassily Kandinsky sent a questionnaire to everyone at the Bauhaus. It was deceptively simple: fill a triangle, a circle, and a square each with one of three colors — red, yellow, blue. He wanted to prove something he already believed — that form and color have an innate, almost musical relationship. That a triangle is inherently yellow. That a circle can only be blue. That these correspondences aren't arbitrary but wired into the way we perceive the world.It became one of the most famous experiments in the history of design education, and it crystallized something essential about the Bauhaus project itself: the conviction that abstraction isn't decoration, it's a language. Kandinsky had been building toward this idea for years, ever since he abandoned landscape painting in Munich and began searching for a visual grammar as precise and emotionally direct as a chord progression. "Point and Line to Plane," his 1926 treatise, laid it all out — every shape carries energy, every color has weight, every composition is a sentence. The triangle, circle, and square weren't just forms to him. They were the alphabet.These earrings speak that alphabet fluently.Each asymmetric pair presents two of Kandinsky's archetypal forms — rendered in lightweight gold-finished brass with a refined, graphic clarity that honors the Bauhaus commitment to stripping beauty down to its structural essentials. At 2 inches from the top of the ear wire to the lowest point, they have a clean vertical line that draws the eye without crowding the neck. At just 1 gram per earring, they're virtually weightless — the kind of piece you put on in the morning and forget about until someone asks where you found them. Ear wires are hypoallergenic and nickel-free.Made in the USA by David Howell & Co. Show more