Jean Despr�s: Jeweler, Maker and Designer of the Machine Age - Hardcover

Melissa Gabardi

9780500514788: Jean Despr�s: Jeweler, Maker and Designer of the Machine Age

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 050051478X ISBN 13: 9780500514788

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2009

This monograph shines the spotlight on an Art Deco jewelry designer whose name has come to stand for the most dynamic of 20th-century styles – Jean Despr�s. Many of his designs and drawings are reproduced here for the first time, showing Despr�s’s creative process. Benefiting from a wealth of fine archive material, the original photographs are accompanied by a large number of new photographs taken specially for the book. This sumptuous volume will delight both new admirers and seasoned connoisseurs alike.

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Review:

Lavishly illustrated.... Boasts a number of original photographs

Anyone with an interest in jewelry history will appreciate this book.

The 234 high-quality color illustrations are interspersed with another 100 black-and-white images of Despr�s in his studio and some of the original images from catalogs and exhibitions.... This will be appealing to artists and collectors equally for the visual material, while the text will be valuable for historians of art and design.

About the Author:

Melissa Gabardi is an historian of the decorative arts and a specialist in 20th-century jewelry, with many books on the subject to her name. She lives in Milan.

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