Jewelry from Nature: Amber Coral Horn Ivory Pearls Shell Tortoiseshell Wood Exotica - Hardcover

Ruth Pelaston

9780500515334: Jewelry from Nature: Amber Coral Horn Ivory Pearls Shell Tortoiseshell Wood Exotica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500515336 ISBN 13: 9780500515334

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2010

Jewelry from Nature explores 200 years of fine jewelry made from natural materials, worn by style icons including the Duchess of Windsor, Coco Chanel and Diana Vreeland. Among the jewelers included are Cartier (whose Art Deco pieces in coral are icons of their era), Van Cleef & Arpels, Boivin, Faberg�, Verdura (whose seashell brooches from the 1940s are collectors’ items), Schlumberger, Herm�s, Lalique, Seaman Schepps and Tiffany. The book also features a host of important contemporary designers, notably Patricia von Musulin, Ted Muehling and Liv Bl�varp. This timely and unique study of a key theme in jewelry design will appeal to makers, dealers, curators, collectors and historians.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Woman with the Well-Dressed Mind � 1. Coral: The Red Gold of the Sea � 2. Pearls: The Leading Ladies of Jewelry � 3. Amber: History Preserved � 4. Ivory: The Cream of the Jeweler’s Canvas � 5. Shell: Underwater Civilizations � 6. Horn: The Queen of Art Nouveau � 7. Wood: Nature’s Canopy � 8. Tortoiseshell: Amphibious Marbling � 9. Exotica: Exuberance of Esoterica

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Review:

`Proves that important jewelry does not necessarily have to showcase the usual gemstone giants'
--Jeweller

`Stunning photography throughout...This is "living jewelry" at its very best'
--Making Jewellery

About the Author:

Ruth Peltason worked with ElizabethTaylor on the bestseller My Love Affair with Jewelry.A widely experienced writer, editor and designer of books on the visual arts, she now runs Bespoke Books in New York.

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