Art Deco Jewelry
Sylvie Raulet
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| ‘Luxurious and informative ... a splendid reminder of the brilliant and daring creations of the period’ | | – Compass |
In Art Deco, as this book richly demonstrates, jewelry found a virtually unlimited source of renewal.
Art Deco drew inspiration from the whole spectrum of the arts, the Ballets Russes and the Fauves, Cubism, Suprematism, Neo-Plasticism and Futurism. Nor were its exponents confined to the modern, European world alone: an ‘Egyptian’ vogue was promoted by the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, while other themes were borrowed from China and Japan, from Persia and Africa. For more than ten glorious years, Art Deco jewelry, in all its many forms, reigned supreme.
Art Deco Jewelry displays through sumptuous illustrations, coupled with a lucid and informative text, the creations of the Haute Joaillerie (the establishment jewelers such as Cartier, Van Cleef et Arpels, Mauboissin and Chaumet) and of the avant-garde designers: Jean Fouquet, Raymond Templier, Gérard Sandoz, Jean Dunand and Paul Brandt, to whom we owe some of the most daring and brilliant creations of the period. Alongside the jewelry, there is also an exquisite range of accessories: dainty vanity cases fashioned with the maximum of detail in the minimum of space; boxes, cigar and cigarette cases; and a spectacular array of clocks.
With the addition of succinct biographies of the most innovative and influential jewelers of the day, a select bibliography and a glossary, this is a book that will prove essential to the connoisseur and delightful to all lovers of good taste and superb craftsmanship.
Also of interest:
Art Deco Series
Art Deco and Modernist Carpets
Art Deco and Modernist Ceramics |
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