Since its opening on the Place Vendme in 1906, the jeweler Van Cleef &amp; Arpels has played a leading role in setting style and design trends in luxury jewelry. Set in Style explores the historical significance of the firms contributions to jewelry design in the 20th century. The book features more than 250 of Van Cleef &amp; Arpels most celebrated works from museum and private collections worldwide, including jewels, timepieces, fashion accessories and objets dart and is published to accompany a major exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, New York City, opening in February 2011. Six accessible essays accompanied by nearly 300 photographs, including previously unpublished design drawings from the Van Cleef &amp; Arpels archives, examine the precious pieces through the lenses of innovation, transformation, nature, exoticism, fashion and celebrity. Among the objects illustrated are a tiara worn by Grace Kelly; Elizabeth Taylors amethyst, coral and diamond bracelet and pendant earrings; a bracelet and necklace owned by Eva Peron; and the Jarretire bracelet owned by Marlene Dietrich, worn in the film Stage Fright.Table of ContentsInnovation Nature as Inspiration Transformation Exoticism Fashion Celebrity

Set in Style The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels /anglais

Coffin, Sarah

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Thames&Hudson

A scholarly, comprehensive study of the art of enamels in Europe, presenting examples from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Demonstrates the extraordinary quality and scope of these exquisite works. This scholarly book contains comprehensive information on the art of enamels in Europe and England. It also examines the techniques and tools of enamelists and presents an overview of artists, patrons and sitters represented in this fine collection.

Portrait Miniatures in Enamel. The Gilbert Collection

Arts & Photography

Hofstetter, Bodo

History & Criticism

Philip Wilson Publishers

A scholarly, comprehensive study of the art of enamels in Europe, presenting examples from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Demonstrates the extraordinary quality and scope of these exquisite works. This scholarly book contains comprehensive information on the art of enamels in Europe and England. It also examines the techniques and tools of enamelists and presents an overview of artists, patrons and sitters represented in this fine collection. /b/

The Gilbert Collection: Portrait Miniatures in Enamel

ANTIQUE COLLECTORS + CLUB (NY)

Since its opening on the place Vendôme in Paris in 1906, renowned jeweler Van Cleef &amp; Arpels has played a leading role in setting style and design trends in luxury jewelry and in the development of the art of jewelry design. Van Cleef &amp; Arpels pieces have been worn by such style icons as the Duchess of Windsor, Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor, and the company's prestige has spread throughout the globe, thanks to an unending list of prominent commissions issued by royal and imperial courts and the world's rich and famous. Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef &amp; Arpels explores the historical significance of the firm's contributions to jewelry design in the twentieth century, including the establishment of Van Cleef &amp; Arpels in New York in 1939. The book features more than 350 of Van Cleef &amp; Arpels' most celebrated works from museum and private collections worldwide, including jewels, timepieces, fashion accessories and objets d'art, focusing on those created exclusively for the American market. Six accessible essays accompanied by nearly 400 photographs, including previously unpublished design drawings from the Van Cleef &amp; Arpels archives, examine the precious pieces through the lenses and themes of innovation, transformation, nature, exoticism, fashion and personalities.

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels

Menkès, Suzy

Peltason, Ruth

Graphic Design

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008

The movement known as Rococo began in eighteenth-century France, and has infused design objects with a sinuous, organic, and sensuous impulse for three centuries. Rococo dominated French design from 1730 to 1765, during the reign of Louis XV. Rococo ideas, transmitted by prints, objects and the traveling designers themselves, quickly spread to England, the Netherlands, the German states, Italy and America. Rococo resurfaced in England under the flamboyant George IV and in France during the Second Empire. Its most significant revival occurred in the design concept known as Art Nouveau. In the twenty-first century, the Rococo spirit has burst forth once again as a creative force. Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008, featuring essays by international scholars and over 380 color illustrations, traces the movement within the historic continuum.

Lupton, Ellen

Hunter-Stiebel, Penelope

Davidson, Gail

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