Cover art for Jewelry Guide: The Ultimate Compendium
Published
Assouline, March 2023
ISBN
9781649800411
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
33cm × 25.4cm × 4.3cm

Jewelry Guide: The Ultimate Compendium

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With the promise of eternity, jewels bestow gifts of adornment and beauty on those who wear them. Their value is multifaceted: intrinsic, sentimental, magical, human. Since the dawn of time, these few grams of precious metals and gems have acted as distillations of the highest sentiments and catalysts of the lowest passions.

Through its power and grandeur, jewellery has mirrored the human journey through the centuries, and French author and editor Fabienne Reybaud walks readers through all its facets while highlighting the world's most mythical stones and magnificent pieces, from the Hope Diamond to Elizabeth Taylor's La Peregrina pearl. Extensively illustrated with atelier images, original sketches and colourful photography, this volume covers everything jewellery enthusiasts need to know, including the club of five and the four Cs. It is accompanied by an essential glossary, the best museum collections to visit around the world as well as the budding designers to follow and a buyer's guide to investing in antique and vintage pieces. AUTHOR: Since 1989, Fabienne Reybaud has been an esteemed editor specialising in the luxury field. She was head of the jewellery and watches department of the French daily newspaper Le Figaro for twenty-five years and is now an independent journalist, writing for leading national publications such as Paris Match and Numero. Reybaud is the author of several books, including Watches: The Ultimate Guide (Assouline, 2006, 2010), Casa Lopez: Un Art de Vivre, with Pierre Sauvage (Flammarion, 2018), Rolex: The Impossible Collection (Assouline, 2018) and Chanel: Jewelry and Watches (Assouline, 2020). 250 illustrations Linen cover and matte coated paper slipcase

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