Jewelry

In the 1960s and 1970s, a generation of young Americans rejected the promise of prosperity and the suburban dream embraced by their parents. Furious about the war in Vietnam, fighting for civil rights at home, and eagerly exploring the effects of...

"...finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful, yet packed with knowledge and information, it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores." -American Ethnologist "The text is detailed and informative, and enjoyable reading..."...

A portrait of an eminent jewellery artist and her unique creations! Inspired by the Arte Povera movement, the Italian jewellery artist Annamaria Zanella (b. 1966) uses base materials, which only gain meaning through their context. Corroded metal or...

Andre Chervin (b. 1927) is a world-renowned jeweller and founder of the premiere New York atelier, Carvin French. Recognized today as masters of fine jewelry-making whose dazzling creations have been sold by top retail houses such as Tiffany, Van Cleef &...

"Within its 276 pages, you will discover how thousands of years of Chinese history and culture manifest in his designs. Noted author and jewelry specialist Juliet Weir-de La Rochefoucauld takes the reader on an intellectual, art historical, and sensual...

Eisenberg was one of the first American design houses, and the jewelry that bears its mark is among the finest costume pieces ever created. Yet there is surprisingly little written about the company, and almost nothing about the other products it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963837Author Kai-Yin LoFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647582289Author HowexpertFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint HowexpertPublisher HowexpertWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 18mm

For more than four decades, jewellery artist and educator Laurie Hall has been making stories the subject of her work. Her playful, often whimsical jewellery made with found objects is about the places she lives, the landscapes that fill her imagination,...

Karl Fritsch (b. 1963), master of extravagant rings, returns with a publication that lures us deep into his world. Ruby Gold is a "no-frills" pared-back book, without pagination, without essays. Instead it comprises 81 rings from the past 20 years...

Margit Jaschke (*1962) lives and works as an independent artist in Halle (Saale), Germany. It was here in the 1980s that she studied at the Burg Giebichenstein art school under Renate Heintze and Dorothea Pruhl. Her work - collage, jewellery, drawings,...

In this book, Cristina Filipe offers a critical examination, from a social and art historical perspective, of some of the artists and contexts that contributed to the transformations in Portuguese jewellery from the vanguard of the 1960s to the early...

This lavishly illustrated book provides an intriguing glimpse inside the luminous world of Fatma Altinba?, an anthropology professor and the creative mind behind the heritage jewellery brand Mevaris. Born into a family of gold merchants, she had the...

Contemporary gold- and silversmithing encompasses a vast range. Increasingly, a daring, (self-)critical, and inventive scene is edging its way to the fore, focusing on challenging the innovative expansion of classical forms and motifs of jewellery,...

With a focus on the women designers of early avant-garde jewellery, this publication paints a fascinating picture of Austrian jewellery production from the 1970s to the present day. The show brings together some 80 jewellery objects, many of which...

Gisbert Stach's (b. 1963) monograph Jewellery and Experiment presents a multifaceted opus from twenty-five years of gold- and silversmithing. In his oeuvre the primarily conceptual artist combines jewellery with video, photography and performance. One...

Helga Zahn (1936-1985) was one of the leading jewellery artists in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. The autodidact, who was raised in Schwarzenbach an der Saale, had a preference for silver and natural materials such as pebbles. Her one-off jewellery...

Rings are perhaps the most common and yet the most evocative pieces of jewellery. Worn as a sign of love or as a fashion accessory, to mark weddings, remember the dead, or show religious faith, the unbroken circle, decorated or elegantly unadorned, holds...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529177466Author Helen MolesworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin (Transworld)Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492355652Author Isidore KozminskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Vamzzz PublishingPublisher Vamzzz PublishingWeight(grams) 531g

Few realize that gold can be found in Great Britain, and that attempts to exploit native sources have drawn prospectors from ancient Rome to Elizabethan adventurers and current commercial projects in Ireland Scotland and Wales. In Gold: Power and Allure,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951560034Author Cheri TaliaferroFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Burly Books PublicationsPublisher Burly Books PublicationsWeight(grams) 195g

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Made by fifteen contemporary artists and sitting somewhere between sculpture and wearable art, the specially commissioned, artist-made objects documented in this publication challenge conventional definitions of jewellery.Hauser & Wirth's Portable Art...

That Ute Eitzenhoefer's jewellery is related to contemporary phenomena is beyond any doubt. The longevity of precious metals and stones is juxtaposed with the rapid development of social realities - or with our increasingly overwhelmed perception of them...

Beginning with the renaissance of gemstones in jewellery design since the 1970s, Ute Eitzenhoefer, Theo Smeets, Lothar Brugel (ret. 2014) and Eva-Maria Kollischan (since 2014) successfully established the Hochschule Trier in Idar-Oberstein as a creative...

2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first international symposium of silver jewellery Jablonec '68. Thanks to the liberalisation endeavours as part of the 'Prague Spring', European jewellery artists from East and West came together for a 'summit'...

Rare stones have fascinated people for thousands of years. Their extraction is never free of conflict, but at the same time the trading and processing of stones brings together people from the most remote regions of the world. In Germany, the town of...

Alongside artistically experimental aspects of education, the ThinkingJewellery 'trademark' stands as a contextual leitmotif throughout the gemstones and jewellery study programme at Trier University/Idar-Oberstein campus. The aims of ThinkingJewellery...

Under the ambiguous term HUNT (English: the hunt; Estonian: the wolf), Kadri Malk unites her collection of contemporary art jewellery. As a lone wolf, the Estonian artist and teacher compiled the pieces in her eternal hunt for beauty, mystery and...

This in-depth look at the forces shaping contemporary jewelry in China includes works by 62 contemporary Chinese jewelry artists, presenting the arresting variety and energy that China offers the field. Cao, an internationally renowned artist residing...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080467133Author Berenice Geoffroy-SchneiterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1080g

Every year, Bulgari launches its High Jewelry collection, featuring 150 mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind pieces. This year, the focus of the design is the symbolism and richness of the world of color a luxurious journey through shapes, hues, and a multitude of...

Greek and Roman Jewellery (1961) covers jewellery from the Classical lands from the early Bronze Age to the late Roman period, almost 3,000 years of continuous development and innovation in the craft. A full account of the technical methods of making...