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Jewellery : from Art Nouveau to 3D printing
Alba Cappellieri
The volume presents an extraordinary collection of jewels, jewellers and
international maisons which, from the start of the twentieth century to
the present day, have mirrored the changing taste worldwide. It is a
global journey which takes us from France to Russia, from the United
States to Italy, from Britain to Germany and from the Netherlands to
Scandinavia. From the Art Nouveau masterpieces of Lalique, Vever and
Fouquet to Art Deco elegance and the wonders of Cartier, Boucheron,
Tiffany, Mario Buccellati and Fabergé. From the inventions of Van Cleef
& Arpels and Bulgari in the 1950s to the Dutch avant-garde and the
artist’s jewel of the 1960s, ending with illustrations of up-to-date and
contemporary jewellery design. A brilliant historical-critical essay
introduces a magnificent selection of pictures, designed to be an ideal
gallery of masterpieces of twentieth-century jewellery, accompanied by
technical explanations and an exhaustive glossary...
The book
closes with the new millennium, with the intermingling of art and design
and the introduction of new goldsmithery techniques like 3D printing
and wearable technologies but also new creative, production,
distribution and communication processes thanks to Internet open sources
which are defining new future scenarios in jewellery design.
A
brilliant historical-critical essay introduces a magnificent selection
of pictures, designed to be an ideal gallery of jewellery masterpieces
from the twentieth century to the present, accompanied by technical
explanations and an exhaustive glossary.