The chapter on gems alone--featuring the work of Bernd Munsteiner, considered the world's best gem cutter--makes this source book invaluable.

The author of this book, a tiny gem in itself, is an authority on the subject, and her memories, combined with alluring digressions on topics ranging from fashion to style, from history to literature to cinema, tell us about a world of art ...

Does jewellery have a specific definition? What expertise, disciplines or knowledge are required to produce it? Is it art, fashion or design? Is making it an industrial or a craft skill?

Published in the two-hundredth anniversary year of the birth of the dynasty’s founder, Louis-François Cartier, this book is a magnificent, definitive, epic social history shown through the deeply personal lens of one legendary family.

Verdura's by-appointment-only patrons included Wallis Simpson, Marlene Dietrich, and Diana Vreeland, who considered his Maltese Cross cuffs an essential part of her daily uniform.In this lavish book, featuring fresh color photographs as ...

Rich and precious content dedicated to the so called Novelties, bijoux which in the United States (but now also in Europe) people wear on festivities to celebrate important days, from Christmas to S. Valentine day.

Corbella Milano presents the history of the company--from the boom in industry in Milan after Italian unification through to the convulsions of 21st-century globalization--and documents some of the company's most extraordinary objects, ...