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Author : Clare Phillips
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Jewels and Jewellery written by Clare Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ingrid Kuntzsch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (85 download)
Download or read book A History of Jewels and Jewellery written by Ingrid Kuntzsch and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Childers
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Jewelry International written by Caroline Childers and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, the world's most famous jewelers come together, presenting their most luscious pieces for your delectation. Jewelry International, the only book of its kind, features the world's most exquisite jewels and the companies that craft them. Two introductory chapters explore in depth the myths, legends, mystery, and history of two of the most perfect gems on earth: diamonds and pearls. The most fabulous names in the world of haute jewelry, such as Boucheron, Bulgari, Chanel, and Mauboussin, each have their own chapters, focusing on the history and significant pieces of each house. Special interviews focusing on the black diamonds of de Grisogono, the happy diamonds of Chopard, and the extraordinary diamonds of Leviev accompany the editorial chapters. Gorgeous photographs of stunning haute jewelry pieces and an in-depth text make this book a must-have for anyone in love with jewelry.
Author : Susanne Gänsicke
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065998
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Looking at Jewelry written by Susanne Gänsicke and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a cabochon? What are the various types of gilding? What is vermeil? This accessible book—the first of its kind—offers concise explanations of key jewelry terms. The fascination with personal adornment is universal. It is a preoccupation that is primal, instinctive, and uniquely human. Jewelry encompasses a seemingly endless number of ornaments produced across time and in all cultures. The range of materials and techniques used in its construction is extraordinary, even revolutionary, with new substances and methods of fabrication added with every generation. In any given society, master artisans have devoted their time, energy, and talent to the fine art of jewelry making, creating some of the most spectacular objects known to humankind. This volume, geared toward jewelry makers, scholars, scientists, students, and fashionistas alike, begins with a lively introduction that offers a cultural history of jewelry and its production. The main text provides information on the most common, iconic, and culturally significant forms of jewelry and also covers materials, techniques, and manufacturing processes. Containing more than eighty color illustrations, this guide will be invaluable to all those wishing to increase their understanding and enjoyment of the art of jewelry.
Author : J. Anderson Black
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ISBN 13 : 9780856131516
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (315 download)
Download or read book A History of Jewels written by J. Anderson Black and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Armstrong
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jewellery; an Historical Survey of British Styles and Jewels written by Nancy Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aja Raden
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062334719
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Stoned written by Aja Raden and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As entertaining as it is incisive, Stoned is a raucous journey through the history of human desire for what is rare, and therefore precious. What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? In this brilliant account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history, jeweler and scientist Aja Raden tells an original and often startling story about our unshakeable addiction to beauty and the darker side of human desire. What moves the world is what moves each of us: desire. Jewelry—which has long served as a stand-in for wealth and power, glamor and success—has birthed cultural movements, launched political dynasties, and started wars. Masterfully weaving together pop science and history, Stoned breaks history into three categories—Want, Take, and Have—and explains what the diamond on your finger has to do with the GI Bill, why green-tinted jewelry has been exalted by so many cultures, why the glass beads that bought Manhattan for the Dutch were initially considered a fair trade, and how the French Revolution started over a coveted necklace. Studded with lively personalities and fascinating details, Stoned tells the remarkable story of our abiding desire for the rare and extraordinary.
Author : Adrian Sassoon
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588395316
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Jewels by JAR written by Adrian Sassoon and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2013 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "the Fabergé of our time" by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewellery designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious stones resplendent with myriad shades of vibrant colour and set in organic shapes: one brooch, for instance, features lifelike petals in subtly differentiated hues, made from a thousand pavé sapphires and amethysts. The New York Times has described his jewellery as "belligerent, stubborn, audacious, funny, contradictory", while JAR himself has characterised his work as "somewhere between geometry and a bouquet of flowers". This book, featuring nearly 70 pieces from throughout JAR's career, provides a concise, accessible, elegantly designed retrospective of the best of his jewellery creations, and is the only book of its kind on his work available in English.
Author : Clare Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jewels and Jewellery written by Clare Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the world-renowned jewllery collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, ranging from early Medieval pieces to examples of the jeweller's art from the Renaissance to the present day. The collection contains objects from all over Europe and North America which illustrate every important style, from Baroque, Neo-Classical and Art Nouveau to the late 20th-century avant-garde. This book explaores every aspect of this subject wihin a broad historical framework. Photographs illustrate examples of elaborate techniques such as chasing, enamelling and cameo carving and the use of unexpected materials such as jet, marcasite and steel, as well as the full range of precious stones. The pages sparkle with diamonds, emeralds, rubies and fine examples of the goldsmiths' art. Famous peices such as the Armada Jewel, jewels belonging to the Russan imperial family and to May Morris are highlighted and described in details. Sentimental and commemorative jewellery, devotional crosses and rosaries, and royal jewels are all featured, with some of the fascinating stories that behind these precious objects. Rings, brooches, pendants, earrings and decorative items such as tiaras, buckles and hair combs reveal the beauty and technical virtuosity of the pieces in this collection.
Author : Joan Evans
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486261220
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book A History of Jewellery, 1100-1870 written by Joan Evans and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superb sourcebook of rare ornamentation includes meticulously detailed narrative and 400 illustrations depicting priceless brooches, necklaces, clasps, gold padlock, reliquary pendants, much more.
Author : David Bennett
Publisher : Acc Art Books
ISBN 13 : 9781851496167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Celebrating Jewellery written by David Bennett and published by Acc Art Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadly divided into 19th and 20th Centuries and then arranged thematically, this beautifully designed and lavishly produced book celebrates the greatest jewels encountered by the authors.
Author : Stellene Volandes
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847868540
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Jewels That Made History written by Stellene Volandes and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the world--triumphs and tragedies, breakthroughs and breakups--through the iconic jewels that have inspired and influenced since the dawn of time. From ancient treasures to royal weddings, great heists to the red carpet, this book is a stunning, surprising, and glittering tour of historic turning points and gem-driven drama, delving into the passions and predilections of some of the world's most interesting and extraordinary people. Starting in the era of Cleopatra and continuing through to contemporary jewelry statements by Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, and Meghan Markle, Stellene Volandes tells the stories of how shiny stones and precious metals have determined empires, inspired expeditions and great crime, and been the communicator of status and ruin since ancient times. Each moment is placed in historic and relevant context, with Volandes drawing engaging parallels between Napoleon's gift to Marie Louise at the birth of their son and the modern push present or the insouciant story behind the brooch Jackie Kennedy famously wore to a 1962 State Dinner with the Shah of Iran. Illustrated with a mix of archival images and gorgeous photography of the jewels, this book is a beautiful, informative, and essential read for history lovers, fashion, celebrity, and pop-culture followers, as well as passionate jewel hounds.
Author : Diana Scarisbrick
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rings written by Diana Scarisbrick and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificently illustrated, international survey of rings through history.
Author : Jean Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317002202
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Victorian Jewelry, Identity, and the Novel written by Jean Arnold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Victorian jewels and their representation, Jean Arnold explores the role material objects play in the cultural cohesion of the West. Diamonds and other gems, Arnold argues, symbolized the most closely held beliefs of the Victorians and thus can be considered "prisms of culture." Mined in the far reaches of the empire, they traversed geographical space and cultural boundaries, representing monetary value and evoking empire, class lineage, class membership, gender relations, and aesthetics. Arnold analyzes the many roles material objects fill in Western culture and surveys the cross-cultural history of the Victorian diamond, uncovering how this object became both preeminent and representative of Victorian values. Her close readings of Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, George Eliot's Middlemarch, William Makepeace Thackeray's The Great Hoggarty Diamond, and Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds show gendered, aesthetic, economic, fetishistic, colonial, legal, and culturally symbolic interpretations of jewelry as they are enacted through narrative. Taken together, these divergent interpretations offer a holistic view of a material culture's affective attachment to objects. As the assigned meanings of jewels turn them into symbols of power, personal relationships, and valued ideas, human interactions with gems elicit emotional responses that bind the materialist culture together.
Author : Larisa Peshekhonova
Publisher : World Diamond Museum Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780992840402
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)
Download or read book India written by Larisa Peshekhonova and published by World Diamond Museum Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - This exhibition catalog showcases some 300 pieces carefully selected from over 30 lenders worldwide, many of these works have never before been on public display- Among the lenders are Nasser Khalili Foundation, V&A, Doha Museum of Islamic Art, Musée Barbie-Mueller, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Chaumet, British Museum, Al-Sabbakh Collection, Mauboussin, and scores of private collectors from around the world- Special place is devoted to two of India's leading jewelry houses - Munnu-Gem Palace and Bhagat famous for their glamor, creative design and fine craftsmanshipIndia, Jewels that Enchanted the World presents for the first time the remarkable history and unique legacy of 500 years of Indian jewelry, from the 17th century to the present. The essays, all written by leading international scholars, explore the rich, distinctive, and unique heritage of Indian jewelry; the striking boldness of South Indian ornaments; the delicate refinement of the Mughal period; the dazzling jewels of the post-Mughal maharajas; the cross-cultural influences between Europe and India in the 19th and early 20th centuries; and the creations of leading contemporary designers whose jewels display the enduring beauty of Indian design and craftsmanship. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin organized jointly with the Indo-Russian Jewellery Foundation, this lavishly illustrated catalog brings together royal, ceremonial, and personal Indian jewels to showcase the entire range and variety of the jeweler's art in India.
Author : Priscilla E. Muller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jewels in Spain, 1500-1800 written by Priscilla E. Muller and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cyril Davenport
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Jewellery written by Cyril Davenport and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
