Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (520 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0878467343 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
enviable collection of art nouveau jewelry Ivor E. Zetler How lucky to be the owner of this fabulous collection of jewelry. My wife Julie, the jewel authority in the family, was in raptures when examining the illustrations in this catalogue. "I would be happy to own just one of these treasures" was her lament (or hint!).The anonymous owner of this collection of the 79 jewels on display must have a good eye and presumably deep pockets. There is an abundance of go. "Gorgeous book ruined by bad printing" according to Sandal. The photography and the curating of this book are fabulous, or more specifically the photography must have been fabulous before it was ruined by a very bad print job.I was thrilled to get this but returned the first copy because there were pages bent and creased during the binding process, and a couple of pages with errant ink spots and one badly smudged page. I asked for a replacement only to be disappoi. The Best Book For The Money This book truly surpassed my expectations. The photography, selection of jewelry, and book design are ALL outstanding! This would be my #1 choice if I could only afford to buy one lavish book on Art Nouveau Jewelry .
European Art Nouveau jewelry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries embraced a new aesthetic characterized by sensuous forms, dramatic imagery and vivid symbolism. But underlying the undeniable exuberance of these works was a fin-de-sicle edginess that endows this period with inexhaustible fascination. With nearly 120 ornaments from a single private collection--the finest of its type in America--Imperishable Beauty features all of the major designers and jewelers from this groundbreaking era. Rejecting the rigid naturalism typical of European decorative arts, designers such as René Lalique and He