Contemporary Jewellers

Author: Roberta Bernabei
Publisher: Berg Publishers
ISBN: 9781845207694
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
This book offers an essential reference for anyone interested in contemporary European jewellery design. Through guided conversations with the major designers of today, Roberta Bernabei reveals the creative, conceptual and technical working practices that underpin the aesthetic of each practitioner's work. In addition, the dialogues shed new light on these jewellers' inspiration and their ideas about functionality and the human body. Each interview is supported by photographs, a detailed bibliography and an appendix that locates the jewellers' work in galleries, museums as well as online. Major jewellery artists present include: Giampaolo Babetto, Gijs Bakker, Otto Künzli, Ruudt Peters, Mario Pinton and Tone Vigeland, alongside members of the emergent generation: Ted Noten, Annamaria Zanella and Christoph Zellweger. This book, which opens the door to contemporary jewellery practice, will be welcomed by all students, lecturers and practitioners.

500 Earrings

Author: Marthe Le Van
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781579908232
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Poring through the beautiful images in this exquisite gallery of earrings is like stepping inside a jewelry store filled with remarkable pieces from the finest contemporary jewelers. The earrings range from the classic to the avant-garde and come from an international array of artists.

Mastering Contemporary Jewelry Design

Author: Loretta Lam
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764359194
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
An accessible and easy-to-use guide to the principles and elements of jewelry design, this resource helps jewelry makers of all skill levels take their designs from good to great. Instructor and expert Loretta Lam offers guidance on working with a wide array of materials, along with exercises to help you explore new design concepts before applying them to your work directly. Dozens of stunning examples from designers around the world help inspire anyone looking for a new source of creativity. Learn how to discover your personal inspiration and process, master the use of the design elements and principles, establish a design hierarchy and find your voice, draw on the inestimable value of critique, and more. You will keep this book close at hand and pick it up time and again for inspiration and as an essential reference.

Chain Mail Jewelry

Author: Terry Taylor
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781579907235
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
A valuable resource to help beginners and intermediates get in on the craze. With computer-generated illustrations that show every step, it introduces all the key construction procedures, including the proper methods of winding, opening and closing the metal rings.

On Jewellery

Author: den Besten (E. L.)
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
ISBN: 9783897903494
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A reflective book about international contemporary art jewellery that aims to open up new points of view about what art jewellery is or can be.

Contemporary Jewelry

Author: Ralph Turner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description

Collect Contemporary Jewelry

Author: Joanna Hardy
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 9780500288559
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Featuring text by an acknowledged expert in arts and crafts, hundreds of illustrations, and essays on key issues and themes, this compact, accessible guide will be an authority in the global marketplace. When collecting contemporary arts and crafts, how can one be certain the pieces that appeal to current tastes also have the stamp of timeless collectible? This new series of accessible guides answers the need for authoritative advice in a fast-developing marketplace. • Texts by acknowledged experts with firsthand experience of the global market • Hundreds of illustrations • Profiles of essential artists, designers, and photographers • A concise reference section, including contact information and where to shop

Contemporary Japanese Jewellery

Author: Simon Fraser
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858941639
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Featuring 200 examples of the very finest work by more than 50 contemporary Japanese artists, this book is indispensable to anyone interested in modern developments in jewellery-making, and of great appeal to the broader craft and design community.

Unique by Design: Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection

Author: Ramljak, Suzanne
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395545
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
"Studio jewelry dissolves the modern distinction between decorative and fine arts. The 60 pieces in this lively volume, collected by Donna Schneier and donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, were created primarily from the early 1960s to the present day and show a fluid engagement with various traditions in jewelry-making--from old masterworks to contemporary pieces--as well as various 20th-century art movements such as Conceptual art, Arte Povera, and Surrealism. Unique by Design draws attention to these dazzling small works of art, most of which have never before been published. Although these pieces incorporate a variety of materials, ranging from the precious to the ordinary, they share some common traits that reflect the collector's tastes: wit, elegance, fantasy, imagination, social observation, and technical virtuosity. Above all, these works were made to be worn and to create a dynamic engagement with a body." -- Publisher's website.

Contemporary Jewellery in Portugal

Author: Christina Filipe
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
ISBN: 9783897905658
Category : Jewelry
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
With Contemporary Jewellery in Portugal Cristina Filipe presents a comprehensive examination of the history of Portuguese studio jewellery from the dawn of the avant-garde in the 1960s through to the contemporary trends of the early twenty-ﬁrst century. Filipe sheds light on societal upheavals as well as on the actors who helped to transform jewellery design in Portugal. For here, too -- and even under the pressure and restrictions of the Estado Novo dictatorship under António de Oliveira Salazar (1930s through to the so-called Carnation Revolution of 1974) -- artists reacted to international inﬂuences and developed their speciﬁc responses to them. Courtesy of numerous interviews with protagonists from the different generations, the author has accomplished a detailed record of developments and trends in contemporary jewellery in Portugal.