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Jewelry of the 1940s and 1950s

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Author(s)	Sylvie Raulet
Editor	Rizzoli	Place	New York
Year	1988	Pages	332
Measure	25X33 (cm)	Illustration	546 ill. di cui 235 a colori
Binding	t. tl. edit. sovracc. ill.	Conservazione
Language		Weight	2600 (gr)
ISBN	0847809358	EAN-13	9780847809356

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Testo in inglese.

Between the years 1937 and 1961 the decorative arts underwent a period of extraordinary renewal in Europe and the United States. Art Deco, with its emphasis on geometrical simplicity and floral stylization, gave way to a new, lavishly figurative style which, by its very opulence, flouted the rigours of wartime life. While Parisian haute couture blossomed with gorgeous fabrics in iridescent hues, waspwaisted dresses and extravagant hats, establishemend jewellers such as Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Garrard and Jensen vied with one another in creating jewelry to match the new mood.
In a lucid text, accompanied by hundreds of superb illustrations, Jewelry of the 1940s and 1950s offers a panoramic view of the new decorative style, from its inception at the Paris Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life in 1937 to its decline in the early 1960s. Biographies of individual jewellers and firms, a bibliography and a glossary complete this striking volume. Volume in perfette condizioni, piccolo strappo alla sovraccoperta. (CA)