The Dean's December collection is inspired by the eponymous novel writen by Saul Bellow. The leitmotiv of the novel is the contrasts between two worlds: that of Chicago and Bucharest in the 1970s.

Each of the pieces created for this collection consist of two contrasting elements, one made of brass or copper and the other made of silver, one with a simple round shape, the other with a complicated geometry, symbolizing the two worlds from the novel.