Stairs 2 - Scale

Natalia Aspesi
Rizzoli Editore

Salvatore Cabasino
Danesi in via Margutta Editore

Sylvie Raulet
Rizzoli International Publications

After the extravagant forms of Art Nouveau, the Art Deco movement represented a return to simplicity and severity. As this book richly demonstrates, in that period jewelry found a virtually unlimited source of renewal. Designers drew inspiration from the entire vivid spectrum of the plastic arts: riotous colors in explosive combinations from the Ballets Russes and the Fauves, geometric shapes from Cubism and Suprematism, the contrast of black and white from Neo-Plasticism, and a fascination with the mechanical world from Futurism. Nor were its exponents confined to the modern European world: an Egyptian vogue was prompted by the 1922 discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, while other themes were borrowed from the Far East, Persia, and Africa.

Art Deco Jewelry displays through sumptuous illustrations, coupled with a lucid and informative text, the creations of the haute joaillerie (jewelers such as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels) and of the avant-garde designers -- Jean Fouquet, Raymond Templier, Gerard Sandoz, Jean Durand, and Paul Brandt -- to whom we owe some of the most daring and brilliant jewels of the period. There is also an exquisite range of accessories: dainty vanity cases fashioned with the maximum of detail in the minimum of space, boxes and cigarette cases, and a spectacular array of clocks.

With the addition of succinct biographies of the most innovative and influential jewelers of the day, a select bibliography, and a glossary, this book serves as an essential reference for anyone interested in the period or in superb examples of the jeweler's art.

Paolo Murani, Stefano Pasini, Luigi Orsini
Automobilia

AA.VV.
Bompiani

AA.VV.
Edizioni S.E.R.T.

Giorgio Caporaso
Logics Srl per Lessmore

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Giorgio Vasari
Casa Editrice Sonzogno

Gianluca Bocchi, Ulisse Bocchi
Galleria d'Orlane

Rezio Buscaroli
Società Tipografica Mareggiani

Giuseppe Morazzoni
Edizioni Luigi Alfieri