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The article focuses on jewelers in the U.S. who were inspired by Constructivism. It relates the role of the studio jewelry movement in the emergence of Constructivism in U.S. jewelry design. The U.S. jewelers who were inspired by Constructivism have adapted the style or look of Constructivist painting and sculpture for jewelry. Information is presented on the impact of the New Bauhaus founded by László Moholy-Nagy on American applied arts. It relates the influence of jeweler Margaret De Patta on studio jewelers with Constructivist thinking.