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Language: italian - 352 pages - color illustrations - Per oltre un secolo Cartier è stato il simbolo della gioielleria più raffinata ed esclusiva del mondo. Da sempre il marchio distintivo della Casa sono stati l'uso di gemme di eccelsa qualità, la grande maestria delle lavorazioni e il design fantasioso. Per zar, maharaja, famiglie reali e miliardari, Cartier ha rappresentato il punto di riferimento per gli acquisti più lussuosi, espressione di una sfavillante opulenza. Negli anni Ottanta del secolo scorso Hans Nadelhoffer, impegnato nella stesura della storia dell'impero Cartier, ha avuto il privilegio esclusivo di accedere agli archivi della Casa e di consultare fotografie e disegni inediti. La nuova edizione del libro, ancora più esaustiva nella profusione di immagini a colori, presenta un rinnovato design grafico e nuove fotografie, oltre a essersi arricchita di notizie aggiornate, frutto di recenti scoperte. Il volume ricostruisce la vera storia di Cartier come mai era stata raccontata: dagli esordi a Parigi alla conquista del primato nel mondo della moda. Ricco di aneddoti e al contempo di informazioni tecniche e documentarie, questo libro illustra come Cartier abbia saputo imporre modelli di stile e principi di eleganza nel corso della sua storia.
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For almost a century, the name "Cartier" has been synonymous with the finest and most exclusive jewelry in the world: top-quality gems, imaginative and distinctive designs, and the most exquisite workmanship. For tsars and maharajahs, European royalty, stage and opera stars, and American super-millionaires, Cartier has been recognized purveyor of luxurious excellence. The history of this international jewelry firm is recounted here by Hans Nadelhoffer, using Cartier's archives, working designs and photographs showing pieces of jewelry no longer in existence. The result is a full story of the house of Cartier, a social portrait of an age, in which the company's career is traced from its modest beginnings in Paris to its eventual predominance over the world of fashion. Anecdotal as well as technical, this book shows how Cartier set stylistic standards throughout its years of success and gives full credit to the little-known individuals who helped bring this about.
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Cartier! The name still works its magic. But it was a long climb from the 1847 launch of Louis-Fran&c184;ois Cartier's family business in the shadow of Paris's Eglise Saint-Eustache. The company's fortunes paralleled the rise of wealthy tycoons, rich on colony profits, and reached an early peak in the years before World War I. But it was under the three brothers Louis, Pierre and Jacques that Cartier became Cartier as we know it, the emblem par excellence of the Cocktail Age; one simply had to have that monogrammed tin-opener, that diamond belt, that gold toothpick.
Jewellery expert Hans Nadelhoffer was well placed to tell Cartier's glamorous story, first published in 1984 and now available for the first time in large, glossy paperback. Given the full run of the company's extensive archives, he tells the Cartier story, full of juicy anecdotes, and, importantly, brings to centre-stage Jeanne Toussaint, the woman whose taste became the litmus test for the Cartier brothers' creations, despite her complete lack of design skill: "My inability to draw qualifies me to assess the work of others". And for those who just want to drool at the pretty things, Nadelhoff drenches his narrative in nearly 500 illustrations, 200 of them in gorgeous Cartier technicolour.--Alan Stewart
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- Publisher24 Ore Cultura
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 8871795512
- ISBN 13 9788871795515
- BindingHardcover
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