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Phyllida Jay
Roli Books Pvt Ltd, 2022
Inspired by India is an exploration of more than six centuries of trade, cultural exchange, and inspiration between India and the West. Through the lens of various material categories, including textiles, fashion, jewellery, and perfume, marvellous stories unfold surrounding the histories of objects and the complex networks of cultural exchange they represent. The book explores how some of the most legendary design houses have looked to Indian culture, decorative arts and artisanal crafts for inspiration. Indian-inspired objects from luxury houses including Hermès, Chanel, Cartier, and Dior are featured, revealing creative and fascinating stories of inspiration and creativity.
English - 256 Pages - 27 x 23 cm - 0.4 Kg
ISBN: 9789392130564
Vivienne Becker
Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2019
Michelle Ong established Carnet, her Hong Kong-based boutique jewelry house, over twenty-five years ago, and her unique one-off creations draw on Chinese motifs and her love of European culture and craftsmanship. Her multi-hued jewels crystallize natural forms with invisible mastery. The hovering translucency of dragonfly wings, the succulence of ripe fruits, the whisper-light touch of a feather, the seductive fragility of black lace, meticulously hand-wrought from silver, the velvet petals of an anemone, a voluptuously curled seashell, the evanescence of a floating cloud evoked in a scroll of diamonds: each jewel is a miniature sculptural work of art. Jade, China s imperial gemstone, is reworked into an Art Deco-style cocktail ring. Her Chinese dragon, a fiercely benign creature, writhes in blackened gold and pavé-set emeralds, breathing a stream of fiery rubies. Ong s work is now acknowledged among the greatest names in high jewelry, renowned for her sublime designs, idiosyncratic colour combinations and deft craftsmanship.
English - 272 Pages - 26 x 4 x 33 cm - 2.2 Kg
ISBN: 9780500021637
Vivienne Becker
Rizzoli Electa , 2019
A unique figure in the world of contemporary art, Daniel Brush is in equal measure artist and craftsman. Over the course of forty years, Brush has created an unparalleled body of work, whose scope ranges from large-scale abstract drawings to sculptures in steel, aluminum, and gold.
Collected here are more than 150 objects that bring to the fore Brush's astonishing work with jewels. Far from the products of the world of commercial jewelry, these are jewel-encrusted objects of virtue and fantasy that reflect not just the artist's rigorous personal aesthetic and mastery of technique, but his lifelong fascinations with philosophy and Asian thought, and his exhaustive knowledge of the history of precious stones.
With photography made of the objects in situ inside Brush's studio in New York City, this book presents not only a catalog of his jewel work to date, but also an ethereal portrait of the artist himself. Housed in a slipcase, with photographs by Takaaki Matsumoto and an illuminating text by Vivienne Becker, this is an intimate study of the work of a master artist and a beautiful object in itself.
English - 256 Pages - 25 x 4 x 31 cm - 2.3 Kg
ISBN: 9780847866366
Patrick Wald Lasowski, Anne-Marie Clais, Guy Lucas de Pesloüan
Cercle d'Art, 2005
" Le bijou efface tout. Il fait fête et feu. Il fait flamber l'instant. Fragment d'extase incendié par l'admiration et le désir. On pense aux bijoux légendaires qui traversent l'Histoire, passent de l'un à l'autre, disparaissent soudain, entre couronnements et révolutions. Ils concentrent en eux tant de destins, de splendeurs et de misères. Des joies, des chagrins, des amours et des deuils, des noces et des crimes leur sont attachés. Fortunes et revers, bonheurs, malédictions, dont ils émergent, indifférents aux cavalcades des hommes, grandis dans le désordre du monde. "
Français - 207 Pages - 29 x 34 cm - 2.5 Kg
ISBN: 9782702207710
askia Coenen Snyder
Oxford University Press , 2022
In A Brilliant Commodity, historian Saskia Coenen Snyder traces how once-peripheral Jewish populations became the central architects of a new, global exchange of diamonds that connected African sites of supply, European manufacturing centers, American retailers, and western consumers. Centuries of restrictions had limited Jews to trade and finance, businesses that often heavily relied on internal networks. Jews were well-positioned to become key players in the earliest stage of the diamond trade and its growth into a global industry, a development fueled by technological advancements, a dramatic rise in the demand of luxury goods, and an abundance of rough stones. Relying on mercantile and familial ties across continents, Jews created a highly successful commodity chain that included buyers, brokers, cutters, factory owners, financiers, and retailers.
English - 304 Pages - 24 x 17 cm - 0.6 KgISBN 9780197610473