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softcover, 224 pages, Illustrated. 26.25cm. ISBN 9782080136312. Showcases jewelry pieces by the designer best known for his glass works, noting his influence on the art nouveau style, use of mythological beings in his art, and material selection. Original.
Hardcover in slipcase, 120 p., 69 color illus. new condition ! ISBN 9780300198683. Called the Faberge of our time by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewelry designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious stones resplendent with myriad shades of vibrant color and set in organic shapes: one brooch, for instance, features lifelike petals in subtly differentiated hues, made from a thousand pave sapphires and amethysts. The New York Times has described his jewelry as ?belligerent, stubborn, audacious, funny, contradictory, while JAR himself has characterized his work as ?somewhere between geometry and a bouquet of flowers. This book, featuring nearly 40 pieces from throughout JAR's career, provides a concise, accessible, elegantly designed retrospective of the best of his jewelry creations, and is the only book of its kind on his work available in English.
98 pages. Features: Andamooka Opal; Scrolled Silver & Opal Pendant; Fiber and Metal Together; Felt Tassel & Silver Bracelet; Casting Metal with a Broom; Broom-Cast Turquoise Pendant; Floating Star Round; Set Up Your Torch; Fabricated End Caps; Masters of Modernism; Carved Jade Cabochon; and more. Above-average wear. Sticker removal scars to front cover. A worthy reference copy. Book
bound, with dusjacket, 400 p., 9 1/2 x 11, 517 color 28 b/w illus. fine condition ! . ISBN 9780300181142. A true eclectic in her personal life, her professional pursuits, and her creative expression, Marie Zimmermann has proven an elusive character for historians. But her skill as a designer and prodigious output of extraordinary jewelry and metalwork in the early 20th century have routinely caught people by surprise. At its best, Zimmermann's work is beguiling and exhilarating, exploring a wide range of innovative approaches to pattern, material, and surface. The diversity of her oeuvre, including work in gold, silver, bronze, copper, and iron, is as astonishing as the boldness of the life she led. This book gathers for the first time the story of Zimmermann's life and work and puts a spotlight on one of the most singular makers of metalwork active in early-20th-century America. Essays by leading scholars in the decorative arts offer extensive new research on Zimmermann and her work, while more than 500 gorgeous full-color images show the breadth and novelty of her design practice.
bound, hardcover in dusjacket, 234pp illustrated in color. fine condition !! 23x290x220 mm. ISBN 9783897903968. In Israel East meets West. Their jewellery traditions blend, resulting in creative innovations. In the 1930s, European immigrants introduced the spirit of the Bauhaus, while oriental craftsmanship was invigorated in the 1950s and 1960s by immigration from Islamic countries. State jewellery companies preserved traditional crafts, while at the same time developing a new and elegant style, designed to express the national identity of the still young state of Israel. There are important links between native jewellery makers and European and American jewellery artists, who were guest lecturers at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in the 1970s and had a lasting influence on Israeli artists. The transition to art jewellery was finally completed in the 1980s, paving the way for artists who are now internationally renowned. A further chapter is dedicated to contemporary works by some outstanding young artists. Although their works are part of the global jewellery scene, they are also dedicated to their homeland, for example through unequivocal references to local political tensions. Artists (a selection): Bianca Eshel Gershuni, Esther Knobel, Deganit Stern Schocken, Vered Kaminski, Attai Chen.
hardbound, 316 pp. illustations in color. fine! ISBN 9789529878789. JEWELLERY IN FINLAND. Marianne Aav ( 2009-2012 ), Eeva Viljanen. Artikkelit : Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm : History and Tradition in Finnish Jewellery, Raimo Fagerstrom : Jewellery as an Indicator of Status, Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm : Otto Roland Mellin and the Archaelogical Jewellery Style, Anna-Lisa Amberg : Eric O. W. Ehrstrom ? Master Craftsman, Raimo Fagestrom : From Traditional Goldsmithing to Art Jewellery, Marianne Aav : Jewellery Art ? Late Phenomenon in Finland, Helena ja Lars Pahlman, Collectors of Contemporary Jewellery. The fascinating world of jewellery is presented with both examples from past centuries and the work of designers representing new, industrially made jewellery in Finland. The trailblazing companies of the field, Kalevala Koru, Kaunis Koru and Lapponia Jewelry, and their designers, have contributed in a variety of ways to the Finnish culture of jewellery, which also comprises unique works of art that are successful in international competition. Since 1960s, Finland has jewellery artists and designers that have broken with tradition and worked with different materials and forms in their search for their own approach. There are many jewellery artists, although their works appeal, for the time being to only a small group of experts. An interview with Helena and Lars Pahlman, who began to collect jewellery art or experimental jewellery in the 1970s in Finland, explores their interest in this pastime and illustrates their collection, of which one hundred examples chosen by them are presented.
320 pages, 23.5 x 30 cm, 342 colour illustrations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Text in English. ISBN 9783897903197. Jewellery sets off beauty and reveals wealth. Moreover, jewellery had a magical function in traditional societies because it attracted blessings and warded off evil. Women were given most of their jewellery when they married. They wore it until their children had grown up. Then it was kept until their daughters had need of its magical properties. So Oriental vernacular jewellery was handed down from generation to generation. If a piece was too worn, it was melted down and the silver used to recreate a piece of the same type. Thus the memories of millennia were preserved in jewellery of this kind. It came to a break in the mid-20th century. In many parts of the Near East, the traditional silver jewellery began to be replaced by gold jewellery that was often industrially manufactured. The upshot was that much of what makes this collection so unusual has been irredeemably lost in the countries where the jewellery was once made. It is to the everlasting credit of Dr. Bir as a collector that these pieces have survived, albeit far from the lands where they were made, to attest to the infinite variety and beauty of Oriental craftsmanship. In this book, readers follow the jewellery on an imaginary journey: from Turkey and ?oriental Europe? across the Mediterranean to north-western Africa and the Sahara to Ethiopia. From there the journey continues through Yemen via India and on to Thailand and the Roof of the World. Down the Indus Valley to Afghanistan. Back again through the mountains and across Central Asia on the Silk Road to the West. From Turkmenistan to the Caspian Sea and from there to the Caucasus. Through eastern Turkey, Syria and Palestine back to the Mediterranean. Born in Freiburg i. Breisgau in 1929, the collector Umit Bir was the son of a Turkish physician and a native of Freiburg. He grew up in Izmir. After studying medicine in Istanbul, he trained as a specialist in Berlin and worked in Wolfsburg from 1958. His passion for collecting began in 1960 on a trip through north-east Africa. One hundred and eighty more trips throughout the Near East would follow. The Dr. Bir Collection comprising more than 3,000 pieces of jewellery is on loan to the Museum fur Volkerkunde Leipzig. It is one of the largest private collections of oriental jewellery in existence. A selection of pieces from it are published here for the first time.
Softcover, 25 x 20 cm, 576 pages ., 550 illustraties, Engels, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9789058564108. Hedendaags juweelontwerp is zonder twijfel het resultaat van duizenden jaren vakmanschap, traditie en research. Eigentijdse juweliers gebruiken nog steeds dezelfde edele metalen en edelstenen als hun voorgangers, maar blijven experimenteren met technieken, innoveren met nieuwe materialen en eigenzinnige concepten. Jewelbook is een internationaal project dat eigentijds juweelontwerp verzamelt van?s werelds beste en meest vooruitstrevende juweliers. Jewelbook wil niet alleen innovatie en unieke creaties tonen, maar wil ook juweelontwerp als expressie van de eigentijdse cultuur promoten. 540 oogverblindende creaties, geselecteerd door een internationale jury van juweelontwerpers en designspecialisten, worden in het boek verzameld. Jewelbook zal ongetwijfeld uitgroeien tot een belangrijk internationaal referentiewerk op het vlak van de sierkunst, een tool om juweliers nog meer bewust te maken van wat leeft op internationaal niveau en de uitwisseling van ideeen en technieken aan te moedigen.
Couverture reliee sous jaquette, 360 pages au format 24 x 32 cm, 500 illustrations, relie pleine toile sous jaquette et coffret illustres. (Neuf !). ISBN 9782878441154. Designe comme le ?« pere de la joaillerie contemporaine ?», Jean Vendome est createur de bijoux depuis plus d'un demi-siecle. Anciennement installe au 352 de la rue Saint Honore a Paris, il a concu pres de trente mille bijoux dont la grande majorite sont des pieces uniques. Pendant quatre annees, l'auteur expert en bijou, a rencontre le joaillier. Elle s'est interessee a sa vie, a ses rencontres avec le pressentiment d'y trouver la cle de ses creations. Pour la premiere fois, l'artiste lui-meme, par une retrospective complete sur sa carriere, presente la genese des differentes lignes qu'il a creees. Ses commentaires passionnants rehaussent encore l'interet et le plaisir du regard que l'on porte sur ses bijoux. L'Auteur, Marlene Cregut-Ledue est expert en bijou, diplomee de l'Institut national en gemmologie.
Gebonden, Hardcover 160 pages, Illustrated. full colour, 26x26cm. . ISBN 9789492576361. JAN VAN NOUHUYS is de meest toonaangevende Nederlandse zilversmid van de afgelopen decennia. Hij verhief het ambacht van zilversmeden tot autonome kunst. Daarbij denkend en werkend vanuit het eeuwenoude vakmanschap; én door anderen te inspireren en te motiveren een plek op te eisen voor hedendaags zilver. Zo initieerde hij het spraakmakende ?Zilver in Beweging? en realiseerde in ruim veertig jaar een oeuvre waarin artistieke zeggingskracht en vakmanschap samengaan. Jan van Nouhuys ? zilverkunst ? grondlegger van de Nederlandse hedendaagse zilverkunst vertelt het verhaal van een man die zilversmid werd, gefascineerd raakte door het vakmanschap van zijn illustere voorgangers uit de zeventiende eeuw, en besefte dat dit vakmanschap het zilver ook een actuele waarde verschaft als de zilversmid tegelijkertijd zich de vrijheid van de kunstenaar eigen maakt. Journalist en kunstcriticus Marc Couwenbergh combineerde zijn monografie over Jan van Nouhuys en het zilver, een verhaal vol scepsis, wantrouwen, bijna-faillisement én eclatant succes, met een analyse van hoe Van Nouhuys, zoekend naar een eigen beeldtaal, een oeuvre opbouwde dat uniek is in kwaliteit en kwantiteit. Een uitgebreid register maakt het boek ook tot een uniek naslagwerk over het moderne Nederlandse zilver. Ruim zestig objecten uit het oeuvre staan in het boek afgebeeld, gefotografeerd door Fred Weegenaar en Rob Glastra. De vormgeving van het boek door Feike de Keijzer-Jansen sluit aan op het belang dat Jan van Nouhuys hecht aan vakmanschap en artisticiteit.
Bound, blue cloth, silver title impression, 175 x 260mm., (XVII)149(8)pp., b/w plates. ISBN 0306704064. A reprint of a book originally published in a limited edition of only 250 copies in 1939. Da Capo Press Series in Architecture and Decorative Art. Volume 39. Foreword by Kathryn C. Buhler. In very good condition.
HB+, 280 x 230 mm, 400 p, 300 colour illustrations English edition . ISBN 9788836635078. The objective of the book is exploring (through careful and rigorous archive research) the scenario of Italian twentieth-century jewellery by delving into the evolution of this art through chronological sectors illustrating different aspects of this production - approximately from 1900 until 1990. Various chapters in the book are dedicated to Neo-Historism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, to the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and ultimately from the 1960s to the 1990s while highlighting the difference and uniqueness of Italian jewels. Alongside the works, many preparatory drawings still preserved in the archives of prestigious jeweller and private collections that have generously granted permission to consult these precious and mostly unexplored documents will be published in this book. In many cases, this will envisage the actual discovery of the identity of this great Italian production of millennial tradition. Renowned names will be present: Mario Buccellati, Alfredo Ravasco, the Musy family from Turin, the Petochi family from Rome. Particular attention will be paid to the 1960s and 1970s as they marked the birth of the new Bulgari style. The review will be presenting works created by the jeweller Mario Masenza in collaboration with painters and sculptors such as Afro, Cannilla, Capogrossi and Uncini, and the "new jewels" initiated by the brothers Arnaldo and Gio Pomodoro. During the 1980s and 1990s we have to mention the creations by Pomellato, Gio Caroli and Riviere. The book comes to a conclusion with some in-depth studies of manufacturing centres of excellence in the Italian jewellery sector, such as Valenza, Vicenza, Arezzo and Padua School. The book comes to a close with the biographies of all the Italian jewellers and goldsmiths mentioned within, in addition to 350 unprecedented images including precious archive documents: sketches, photographs of models wearing vintage jewellery, colour/black and white photographs of jewellery specimens.
158pp.richly ill.in bl/w & colour, cloth, dustwrapper (tear repaired), VG/G
ing. paperback, 350pp. rijkelijk geillustreerd met foto's en zilvermerken. 22x27cm ISBN 9789074311656. Deze zilvercollectie is van uitzonderlijk artistiek en historisch belang en is te danken aan de inzet van Claude d'Allemagne, die sinds 1953 tot zijn dood in 1986 fervent verzamelaar was van Europees zilver. De collectie D'Allemagne bewaard in het slot omvat bijna vijfhonderd stukken en is daarmee een van de grootste zilververzamelingen van Belgie. Deskundigen van de dienst Erfgoed namen zich de taak ter harte deze collectie op een wetenschappelijk verantwoorde manier te inventariseren en te bestuderen. Alle stukken werden opgemeten en beschreven; de merken en bijgeslagen merken werden genoteerd en ook de wapens zijn bestudeerd. Bij dit alles horen fraaie foto's van zowel de voorwerpen op zich als van de merken
