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| Jeweled Garden: A Colorful History of Gems, Jewelry, and Nature | 
 enlarge | Authors: Suzanne Tennenbaum, Janet Zapata
Publisher: Vendome Press
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
Buy New: $31.50
You Save: $18.50 (37%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 85297
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 10 x 1
ISBN: 0865651728
Dewey Decimal Number: 391.709
EAN: 9780865651722
ASIN: 0865651728
Publication Date: October 1, 2006
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Product Description
The natural world has been a muse for artists throughout the ages, and jewelry designers have always shared that inspiration, their fascination with flora and fauna coming through in their work. Now, Jeweled Garden traces the evolution of garden-inspired jewelry from the 19th century to the present day in beautiful photographs and an absorbing text.
From Louis Comfort Tiffanys delicate realist creations of the Victorian Age to Cartiers 2006 Caresse dorchides necklace encrusted with precious stones, the traditions most beautiful pieces by master jewelers are represented. Featuring pieces from turn-of-the-last-century Art Nouveau, 1920s Art Deco, 1950s and 60s jet-set, and 1970s individualism, from Faberge, Lalique, Tiffany, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, and even from fashion houses such as Chanel and Christian Dior, this gorgeous volume will delight jewelry aficionados and gardening enthusiasts alike.
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Fabulous book! November 13, 2008
This is a fabulous book if you are interested in jewelry. The photos are beautiful and the text is well written and fascinating.
A gorgeous book of organically themed jewels October 19, 2008
From ancient times flowers, leaves, vines and other organic forms have been made into precious jewels by mankind. This is essentially a picture book. It starts with some early examples of jewelled plants from UR (c2500BC) and ancient Greece and Egypt, but the bulk of the images represent jewellery made in the 19th and 20th centuries.
It has to be said that all the jewellery illustrated is very well photographed in colour and the images are of the highest quality. All the big "name" jewellers are illustrated (eg Castellani, Bucheron, Cartier, Tiffany etc) but there are also many examples by unknown artists, whose work is nevertheless still gorgeous.
The book is not restricted any particular type of jewellery. You have earrings, brooches, necklaces, bracelets all unified by a theme of organic design. If you make or simply love or collect jewellery then this book is one you should at least have a look at. It's a feast for the eyes and will give you an appreciated for how widely flowers etc have been used over the centuries for adornment.
DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! August 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Drool! Drool! Drool! You haven't seen these before. I have a lot of books on jewelry and I haven't seen 99% of the pieces in this book before.
Every page has full color photographs of the most stunning jewelry I've every seen. Many of the photographs are larger than life size, so you can really see the details. The descriptions of the pieces even give you a better feel of what they look like in real life.
I would definitely consider buying other books by these authors, as this book is stunning.
A visual ravishment! August 8, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
A superb book! A visual ravishment!
The book is well researched and wide ranging in its study of flora based jewellery!
Focusing not only on the great jewellery houses but also on historical pieces, it makes for interesting reading for anyone who appreciate fine workmanship but also the history of jewels!
Great Jewelry Books May 31, 2007
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
A "Must-have" for jewelry collectors, designers ..... Excellent pictures!!!! Great details!!! With lots of great masterpieces! 100% +++++ satisfaction in owning it!!!
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