Jewelry Design Books
Andrew Grima: The Father of Modern Jewellery
This book is the first major monograph on Andrew Grima, arguably Britain's greatest jewelry maestro, encompassing his life, career and legacy. It features a dazzling array of never-before-seen sketches, designs and photographs from the Grima archives.
Jewels That Made History: 101 Stones, Myths, and Legends
From ancient treasures to royal weddings, great heists to the red carpet, Jewels That Made History offers a stunning, surprising, and glittering tour of historic turning points and gem-driven drama, delving into the passions and predilections of some of the world's most interesting and extraordinary people. Starting in the era of Cleopatra and continuing through to contemporary jewelry statements by Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, and Meghan Markle, Stellene Volandes tells the stories of how shiny stones and precious metals have determined empires, inspired expeditions and great crime, and been the communicator of status and ruin since ancient times.
Dior Joaillerie: The A to Z of Victoire de Castellane
As creative director of Dior Joaillerie since its beginnings in 1998, Victoire de Castellane is renowned for her fearless approach to jewelry. Crossing the boundary between natural and artificial, her fantastical jewels are inspired by global pop culture, Christian Dior's life and work, and the floral world and embody a timeless, poetic style. To fête twenty years of Victoire de Castellane's designs, this luxurious volume presents a dictionary of eighteen chapters, each introduced by a dazzling drop cap ornate with an original collage of drawings.
Shaun Leane
Celebrated worldwide for his modern romantic jewels that push the boundaries of contemporary design, Shaun Leane has been responsible for creating a new genre of jewelry; precious, poetic, with a sense of eternity, yet relevant to today's world. Illustrated with a breath-taking combination of high fashion shots and detailed close-ups of the pieces themselves. Captured by photographers Nick Knight, Robert Fairer and Chris Moore, along with a dedicated photo essay of unseen backstage images recorded by Leane's close friend Ann Ray.
Vogue: The Jewellery
From couture to costume jewelry, the brilliant pieces featured on the pages of British Vogue for almost a century have encapsulated the fashion zeitgeist of each new age for which they were created. Adorning princesses and rock chicks alike, the jewels shown here reveal a dazzling array of styles and moods - from fairy-tale romance to Jazz-age glamour, sculptural modernism to timeless elegance. On every page, sumptuous jewelry is the star of the show, nourishing dreams in us all. In Vogue: The Jewellery, Vogue's jewelry editor Carol Woolton has curated a collection of more than 300 fabulous images and grouped them into five thematic chapters: Show-stoppers, Rock Chick, Minimalist, Exotic and Classical.
Magnitude: Cartier High Jewelry
The rare and audacious association of precious and fine gemstones - like amazonite enhanced with diamonds or rubies, or an opal matrix paired with sapphires - creates striking combinations that form the foundation for a novel approach in high jewelry. This passion for the infinite diversity of stones and singular materials has been fundamental at Cartier since the house's inception. Such amalgamations generate an unexpected dialogue between contrasting elements - the rough with the ornamental, mineral with landscaped, bold colors with changing nuances, earth with cosmos. This exquisitely crafted volume - featuring elaborate production characteristics including multiple paper stocks, Swiss binding, an insert, and illustrations from the ateliers - celebrates the pioneering spirit of Cartier, its creativity, and the surprising beauty of the stones.
Creating Wooden Jewelry
Creating Wooden Jewelry is a comprehensive guide to creating wooden jewelry that teaches woodworking skills through a series of 24 techniques and beautiful, accessible projects. Inside this book, renowned artist jeweler Sarah King shows any jewelry maker how to expand your range of techniques and combine wood with other media, from silver to silicon. Staring with basic techniques and moving on to advanced, you'll learn skills that include jointing, turning, steaming, polishing, staining, painting, beveling, inlaying, and working with different woods.
New Necklaces: 400 Designs in Contemporary Jewellery
New Necklaces is the third book curated by jeweler and author Nicolas Estrada. Featuring a very special selection of impressive pieces by more than 180 artists from all over the world, this book showcases the current trends in contemporary jewelry and how boundaries in concept, materials and techniques are being pushed by jewelry designers today. From those that look back to classic forms and materials to the most daring, experimental and surprising ideas, each of the 500 necklaces included in this book has something that makes it unique and relates strongly to today's social, cultural and artistic reality.
Bulgari: The Story, The Dream
Bulgari: The Story, The Dream celebrates not just the evolution of Bvlgari's style through more than one hundred years, but also its ability to inspire the modern woman through the ages. Jewels from Bvlgari's heritage collection are matched with one hundred haute couture garments of the same time period from the most illustrious fashion houses, including Chanel, Dior, Prada, Versace, Fendi, Pucci, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino, and more.
Bejeweled: The World of Ethical Jewelry
In the wake of Charles Leavitt's insightful 2006 movie Blood Diamond, which told how conflict diamonds fund civil wars, the buying and wearing of ethically sourced and sustainably mined jewelry has become a priority in today's luxury market. Bejeweled is the first book to cover this timely subject. Profiling leading international designers who are at the forefront of the ethical jewelry movement, this beautifully photographed publication examines how an ancient art is powering a green revolution in chic jewelry for everyone.
Rhino 6.0 for Jewelry
Rhino's powerful NURBS technology makes it possible to achieve extreme accuracy while being flexible enough to create your most fluid designs. This book was written to demonstrate and teach the use of Rhinoceros software for the design and creation of jewelry. Chapters are in tutorial format with step-by-step instructions that will gradually build a knowledge base as later chapters become more advanced. Intensive instruction in both technical drawings of jewelry objects and the creation of jewelry models.
Mastering Contemporary Jewelry Design
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.
The Cartier Collection: Jewelry
With more than 3,000 pieces dating from the 1860s to the present, the Cartier Collection constitutes the world's largest collection of its kind. This luxury work traces the history of the collection's high jewelry holdings and attests to the originality and artistic genius that made Cartier a world-class jeweler. The two-volume set showcases the extraordinary pieces from collectors such as Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess of Windsor, Daisy Fellowes, Barbara Hutton, and Sir Bhupinder Singh, the Maharaja of Patiala, highlighting Cartier's mastery of the jeweler's art through highly original designs, unique colors, and legendary precious stones.
The Art of the Jeweler: Excellence and Craftmanship
The Art of the Jeweler offers a unique insight into the arts and crafts of jewelry-making through 10 specialist craftsmen, their techniques and their Savoir-Faire.
Jean Schlumberger: The Rachel Lambert Mellon Collection from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Famous for his inventive interpretations of animal and botanical subjects, artist-jeweler Jean Schlumberger (1907-1987) played a key role in 20th-century fashion with his vibrant sculptural designs for whimsical jewelry and accessories. After beginning his career crafting costume jewelry for designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 1930s Paris, Schlumberger opened his own private salon at Tiffany & Co. in the mid-1950s and began attracting celebrity clients, including Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, and Jacqueline Kennedy. This stylish catalog presents highlights from the unrivaled collection of Schlumberger's work given to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
The Jeweller's Directory of Decorative Finishes
The Jeweller's Directory of Decorative Finishes is a complete guide to the tools, materials, and techniques for creating decorative finishes for jewelry. It outlines all the materials and equipment needed to carry out different techniques, together with detailed demonstrations and sample swatches. It is richly illustrated with work by professional jewelers, explaining how they have used different applications in their work.
East Meets West
East Meets West: Jewels of the Maharajas from the Al Thani Collection focuses on four centuries of magnificent jewelry that resulted from the cultural exchange between India and Europe. This book features more than 150 objects, including jewel-encrusted jades, famous gemstones, enameled gold, and other precious works of art that range in date from the 17th century to the 1930s, along with exquisite contemporary examples by JAR and Baghat that draw from earlier motifs.
Jewellery: From Art Nouveau to 3D Printing
Jewellery: From Art Nouveau to 3D Printing presents an extraordinary collection of jewels and jewelers from the start of the 20th century to the present day. Conceived of as an ideal gallery of the masterpieces of 20th-century jewelry, this volume begins with the Art Nouveau masterpieces of Lalique, Vever and Fouquet, followed by the Art Deco elegance of Cartier, Boucheron, Tiffany, Mario Buccellati and Fabergé. After World War II, Van Cleef & Arpels and Bulgari's whimsical inventions of the 1950s share space with the designs of the Dutch avant-garde and the artist's jewels of the 1960s. The book closes with the new millennium, with the intermingling of art and design and the introduction of new technologies like 3D printing, wearable technology and new modes of distribution and communication.
Jewellery in the Age of Modernism 1918-1940: Adornment and Beyond
Jewellery in the Age of Modernism explores the relationship between jewelry, modernism, and modernity from the 'jazz age' to the second world war in order to challenge the view that these portable art forms have only a minor role to play in histories of modernism. From the masterworks of the Parisian jewelry houses to the film and photography of Man Ray, this study seeks to present jewelry in a new light, where issues of representation and display are considered to be as important in the creation of a modern 'jewelry culture' as the objects themselves.
Jewelry Matters
Designed by Irma Boom, Jewelry Matters explores the magnificent jewelry collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam with loving attention. Each jewel in this volume is reproduced at its true size (sometimes with enlarged details) to reveal its beauty and its relationship to the human body in full, intimate detail.
Art as Jewellery: From Calder to Kapoor
Art as Jewellery is a visually stunning introduction to jewellery made by the titans of twentieth and twenty-first century art. From Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, through to Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst and Grayson Perry, the great figures of modern art have all turned both thought and talent to jewellery. Often, they have eschewed the traditional jeweller's preoccupation with material value and provenance, more concerned with the conceptual or aesthetic significance of their work. By using contemporary pictures, Art as Jewellery develops a chronological timeline of jewellery presentation. Its pages are home to a stunning variety of design sketches and photographs. Some were shot by renowned 20th century photographers, such as Ugo Mulas and Antonia Mulas, while others have been buried in archives for decades, unseen since the '60s. In contrast, modern works have been given model treatment by top photographer Alexander English, making this book a glamorous blend of new and classic jewellery art.
Ebbe Weiss-Weingart: 70 Years of Jewellery
Ebbe Weiss-Weingart is one of the pioneers of international studio jewelry. For over seventy years she has enriched the contemporary jewelry scene with her diverse works. Her inception in the 1950s and 1960s with structured surfaces and galvanised sculptured pieces will never be forgotten. Alongside figurative motifs - in particular, her portrayals of humans and animals - she also created pieces with an ironic and quirky touch. In her last phase of creativity, which began in the 1990s, she had a penchant for working with jewelry made from Chinese jade reliefs. Around 200 illustrations of these jewelry objects documents her award-winning work, and along with previously unpublished photographic material, expands on her hitherto unknown accomplishments.
Chaumet: Parisian Jeweler Since 1780
Quintessential Parisian jeweler Chaumet has shaped the face of elegance since 1780. This monograph covers all of the company's innovative designs-from diamond tiaras to nature-inspired motifs to intricate timepieces-that vary from classic and timeless to opulent and avant garde.
Women Jewellery Designers
This sumptuous book showcases the work of women jewelers in the twentieth century. Beginning with Arts & Crafts jewelers in Britain, Europe and North America, the author then examines the key figures and movements of the pre-war period including Coco Chanel's legendary 'Bijoux de Diamants' exhibition of 1932, the designs of Suzanne Belperron and the roles of Jeanne Toussaint at Cartier and Renée Puissant at Van Cleef & Arpels. From the 1950s to the present day, a wide range of international designers are examined in detail with many examples of their work clearly illustrated. The author focuses on themes associated with jewelry, including color, light, proportion, nature and legends.
Iris Mondelaers: Jewellery
The Limburg jewelry designer Iris Mondelaers (1973) continuously explores the limits of her art. Especially known for her floral designs, Mondelaers experiments with materials such as gold and silver, often in combination with semi-precious stones, diamonds and pearls. Her jewelry is versatile, sometimes playful, at other times more minimal, but always undeniably feminine.
Tone Vigeland: Jewelry - Objects - Sculpture
Scandinavian studio jewelry is simply unimaginable without Tone Vigeland and her work. Her distinctive objects flatter the human body and captivate through their dimensions and volume, yet they are assembled from the tiniest hand-crafted components. Tubes of silver wire, precisely cut plates, spheres and eyelets, all in small scale, are invisibly interconnected, and Vigeland's use of heavily oxidised, almost iron-black silver and steel is a typical feature. Around 150 jewelry objects from 1958 to 2010 document Tone Vigeland's pioneering creativity.
Masterpieces of American Jewelry
Throughout history humans have decorated themselves with wearable art that speaks of their rich culture and history. In Masterpieces of American Jewelry, leading jewelry expert Judith Price showcases the finest wearable art that has adorned Americans for the past 150 years and relates the fascinating stories behind them.
Linda MacNeil: Jewels of Glass
Linda MacNeil: Jewels of Glass is the first in-depth monograph to explore the development of leading American jeweler Linda MacNeil's jewelry and her contribution to late twentieth- and twenty-first century jewelry. MacNeil has inserted her voice into contemporary American jewelry as an innovator transforming glass into proxies for precious gemstones. She and her work have straddled the fields of Studio Glass and Studio Jewelry. A pioneer over her forty-and-counting-year career, she has united glass with metal and, recently, with precious gems. Exploring materiality and methodology, she uses historical precedent as a jumping off point to make stunning, wearable jewelry.
Flora
Flora features a dazzling collection of jewelry imitating flowers, from the seventeenth century to today. The sumptuous selection of floral pieces in this book have all been selected from the magnificent jewelry collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and range from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Cartier Magician: High Jewelry and Precious Objects
Dedicated to Cartier's new collection of high jewelry and precious objects, this volume celebrates the legendary house's unique ability to bring inanimate objects to life. These pieces reveal the magical universe and exceptional creativity of the master jeweler and watchmaker that make them veritable works of art.