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This gorgeous coffee-table book, with a foreword by influential jeweler Gerda Flöckinger, showcases classic vintage jewelry from the past 100 years. Featuring examples that epitomize the iconic styles of each decade, it offers an overview of the most influential designers (including Tiffany, Cartier, Fabergé, and Chanel), their sources of inspiration, and materials of choice. Photos display a selection of rare and remarkable pieces from museums and private owners, and a vintage shopping guide gives tips on spotting fakes, caring for purchases, and other important facts collectors should know.

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Vintage Jewelry Design examines jewelry ornamentation throughout the ages starting with the 1890s up to current jewelry trends. The focus of this book is for jewelry collectors and jewelry lovers in general. If you have wanted to learn more about jewelry and its history, or have thought of collecting a certain period of jewelry, then this is an excellent guide. The text is very detailed throughout and full of photos that show jewelry pieces from each decade discussed. It is also a good resource for getting design ideas that you can combine with your own signature jewelry pieces. - About.com: Jewelry Making This lovely, well illustrated volume will delight both the vintage jewelry collector and the novice with stunning photographs and useful information. It is also of value to designers, art students and jewelry makers for a wealth of ideas from the past that can be incorporated into modern creations. ... This is a breathtakingly beautiful volume that serves as both a work of refer

Vintage Jewelry Design examines jewelry ornamentation throughout the ages starting with the 1890s up to current jewelry trends. The focus of this book is for jewelry collectors and jewelry lovers in general. If you have wanted to learn more about jewelry and its history, or have thought of collecting a certain period of jewelry, then this is an excellent guide. The text is very detailed throughout and full of photos that show jewelry pieces from each decade discussed. It is also a good resource for getting design ideas that you can combine with your own signature jewelry pieces. - About.com: Jewelry Making The heart of Vintage Jewelry Design is organized by decade (although the first and last cover more than one decade) with wonderfully inviting titles like Divinely Decadent, F for Fake, and The Power and the Glory. Each chapter is then further divided into sections on everything from a prevailing style of the decade, a favorite gem, a type of adornment, a designer. Unlike

I love, love, love this book. For some reason I associate the word 'vintage' with the '20s and '30s, but this book starts with the 1900s and ends with 2008. That's quite a range, and the book illustrates it wonderfully! The text is small and the pictures large, so it's information and visually packed! (It's) for all the metal lovers out there, (and) fashionistas will love it as there are many fantastic full-page photos of clothing and adornments working side by side for full effect. 224 pages. Picture book. Reference book. INSPIRATIONAL front to back! - Candie Cooper A valuable book for the collector and fascinating for anyone who loves jewelry. Ms. Cox guides us through the evolutionary twists and turns of jewelry as art as well as industry, accompanied by gorgeous images of jewelry from each period. This is truly a fun book to read. Loaded with mouth-watering images of splendid jewelry, famous women who wore it and the designers who made it, V intage Jewelry Design is a fabulous

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Caroline Cox, professor of cultural history at the University of the Arts, London, is a leading fashion authority. Her books include Lingerie: A Lexicon of Style (2000) and Hair and Fashion (2005), which had an accompanying catwalk show at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Caroline lives in London, England.

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