Art Nouveau Jewelry

Author: Vivienne Becker
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500280782
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Jewelry was one of the purest and most successful expressions of the Art Nouveau movement. Fresh designs and motifs created intense excitement as organic forms surged with new life, and the female form struggled towards freedom, suggesting a long-hidden eroticism. The artists and goldsmiths who created this jewelry were trained in the nineteenth-century disciplines; their technical mastery allowed them to experiment with new materials and enameling processes to indulge their fantasies. This combination - an atmosphere of ideas for a new art and the unrivaled technical skill of the makers - produced some of the most evocative jewelry of modern times. The book deals with major makers in France, and follows the parallel modern movement that spread through Europe and the United States, acquiring different decorative characteristics, from Great Britain, Germany and Austria, to Belgium, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Comprehensive biographies of over 300 designers are included, as well as a Guide to Identification, with over 200 makers' marks and signatures.

305 Authentic Art Nouveau Jewelry Designs

Author: Maurice Dufrène
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486141950
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 51

Book Description
Over 300 spectacular pendants, combs, buckles, rings, bracelets, brooches, umbrella handles, penknives, buttons, clasps, and scissors in detailed photographs reprinted from rare, turn-of-the-century folios.

Authentic Art Deco Jewelry Designs

Author: Franco Deboni
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486142183
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 81

Book Description
Meticulous reproduction of rare portfolio (1925-30) contains over 700 dazzling designs and motifs for buckles, clips, belts, mirrors, pendants, cigarette cases, rings, chains, necklaces, watchbands, brooches, studs, and charms.

Art Nouveau Jewellery & Fans

Author: Gabriel Mourey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Work of Bing, Lalique, Desbois -- great Continental and British masters -- is displayed in this catalog of the finest jewelry of the period. 118 plates, 8 in color.

Art Deco Jewelry

Author: Sylvie Raulet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500283523
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
This volume presents almost 800 illustrations with text celebrating the achievements of Art Decon jewelry. The author's text covers the creations of the Haute Joaillererie and the avant-garde designers. There is also a range of accessories such as vanity cases, cigarette cases and clocks.

Imperishable Beauty

Author: Yvonne J. Markowitz
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9780853319979
Category : Art nouveau
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Jewellery.

Art Deco Jewelry

Author: Laurence Mouillefarine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500514771
Category : Art deco
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
ART DECO. An authoritative, comprehensive, and beautifully illustrated selection of jewelry that will appeal to specialists and general readers alike; published with the Musee des Arts Decoratifs.

Twentieth-century Jewelry

Author: Lodovica Rizzoli Eleuteri
Publisher: Abbeville Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Spectacularly beautiful, this authoritative book presents jewelry designs of this century. With almost two hundred full-color photographs specially commissioned for this book and archival pictures of pieces that have disappeared into private collections, the volume features the finest artworks in precious metals and jewels from collections around the world, including creations by Lalique, Cartier, Boucheron, Bulgari, Tiffany, and David Webb. The fascinating text surveys the glittering world of gems with an illustrated introductory essay investigating the development of jewelry design at the end of the 1800s, and the shift from Victorian and Art Nouveau works to pieces stamped with the personality and vision of a single designer. The next chapter thoroughly examines the successive revolutions in style of the twentieth century. The balance of the book is a cornucopia of photographs portraying pieces from the beginning of the century through the 1960s: the grand era of commissions and patrons. Here you will find the Duchess of Windsor's famous necklace of diamonds and rubies as well as a fabulous pin in the shape of a World War II tank, and a veritable menagerie of diamond-studded elephants, enameled tigers, and jade dragons. This thorough history is a dazzling jewelbox of a book.

300 Art Nouveau Designs and Motifs in Full Color

Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780486243542
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
These 44 full-page, full-color plates display the swirling lines and muted colors typical of Art Nouveau. Various decorative elements: borders, frames, panels, cartouches, dingbats, etc.

Art Nouveau Jewelry Designs

Author: Rene Beauclair
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486810062
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 51

Book Description
"Art Nouveau Jewelry Designs, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2016, reprints all the designs from Neue Ideen feur Modernen Schmuck, published by Verlag von Jul. Hoffmann, Stuttgart, Germany, n.d."