The firm of Cartier, which celebrates its 150th anniversary in 1997, was by the end of the 19th century the major supplier of jewellery to the European aristocracy and their American counterparts. During the next four decades Cartier's work was marked by exceptional quality of design and execution. This catalogue, published to accompany a major exhibition at the British Museum, London, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, provides an insight into Cartier and includes items associated with the great figures who were its clients. The book illustrates and describes 227 items of jewllery and decorative accessories and also reproduces 70 highly finished designs, including many objects shown at the great international exhibition of "Arts Decoratifs" held in Paris in 1925. Contemporary archive photographs and some newly discovered plaster casts recording major pieces which no longer survive are also included.
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Illustrationen
350 colour and 50 b&w illustrations, bibliography, glossary, index
Maße
Höhe: 276 mm
Breite: 219 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7141-0584-0 (9780714105840)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Introduction - a brief history of Cartier: the period 1900-1939; clients; the production process; the archive and surviving evidence; the Cartier archive. Catalogue: 1900-1918 - the emergence of the Cartier style; the Russian style; fashionable accessories in gold and enamel; the Egyptian style; the Persian and Indian styles; the Chinese and Japanese styles; Cartier colour combinations; diamond and precious stone jewellery between the wars; designs.
