The Jeweled Garden
Suzanne Tennenbaum
Janet Zapata
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| ‘Gorgeous … ’ | | – Antiques Diary |
| ‘Exquisite garden-inspired jewelry from the last 150 years … will delight jewelry aficionados and gardening enthusiasts alike’ | | – Garden Heaven |
'The Jeweled Garden' traces the inspiration and evolution of two centuries of garden-inspired jewelry.
The great 19th-century French jewelers, Boucheron, Chaumet, and later Lalique, excelled in adapting flowers, trees, and fruits into wonderfully imaginative – and highly collectible – bracelets, brooches and necklaces.
The legendary 20th-century firms Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari and Belperron also created memorable jewels emulating nature, as did American jewelers such as Seaman Schepps, Oscar Heyman & Brothers, David Webb and Verdura.
Their ingenuity has in turn inspired the designs of our own time, including Mughal-influenced pieces by Joel Arthur Rosenthal, Stefan Hemmerle’s playful ferns and mushrooms, and Jacqueline Karachi-Langane’s cascading orchid necklace for Cartier.
The 375 stunning illustrations make this a collector's piece in itself.
Suzanne Tennenbaum is a noted collector of fine jewelry, and particularly garden jewelry. She is the co-author, with Janet Zapata, of The Jeweled Menagerie.
Janet Zapata is a renowned historian of decorative arts and jewelry and is the author of numerous books and articles on the subject, including Seaman Schepps and The Jewelry and Enamels of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Also of interest:
The Jeweled Menagerie
Costume Jewelry for Haute Couture
Art Nouveau Jewelry
Henri Vever: French Jewelry of the 19th Century
The Shell: A World of Decoration and Ornament
Verdura: The Life and Work of a Master Jeweler |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500513295 | | ISBN-13 978-0500513293 | | | | 25.0 x 25.0 cm | | Hardback | | 216pp | | 375 illustrations, 375 in colour | | First published 2006 | | | | £29.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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