Amazing Cartier : jewelry design since 1937 /
Cartier's peerless designers have continued to amaze decade after decade - from the 1930s into the twenty-first century - with their fanciful and trendsetting creations. Figurative pieces comprise a significant portion of the house's collection - a veritable menagerie that includes bejewel...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Paris : New York :
Flammarion ; Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Pub.,
©2009.
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| Summary: | Cartier's peerless designers have continued to amaze decade after decade - from the 1930s into the twenty-first century - with their fanciful and trendsetting creations. Figurative pieces comprise a significant portion of the house's collection - a veritable menagerie that includes bejeweled roosters and cobras cohabitating with tigers and angelfish. In addition to whimsical fauna and resplendent flora, Cartier crafted items of precisely mastered abstraction, from virtuoso work in gold to chromatic harmonies ranging from subtle to bold. The second half of the twentieth century was to provide an inexhaustible repertoire of forms for decorative objects and finery. Close-ups of hundreds of Cartier pieces are supplemented with archival drawings, as well as society and fashion photographs. This volume chronicles the rise of a pioneering firm and illustrates the power of constantly renewed styles based on a fine balance between imagination and know-how, creativity and experience. |
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| Physical Description: | 251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 250). |
| ISBN: | 9782080300980 2080300989 |