Les Bijoux. Del'Art Deco Aux Années 40 (Jewelry. From Art Decco to the 1940s)
Paris: Les Editions de l'Amateur, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 357 [3]pp. Original dark green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, in original color-illustrated dustjacket with gilt and white lettering on spine. Light blue endpapers. Very light wear along edges of dustjacket and binding.
Standard work on Art Deco jewelry including work by Depres, Dunand, Fouquet, Miklos, Sandoz, Templier Brandt, Boucheron, Cartier, Chaumet, Noury-Mauboussin, Van Cleef, and others. Beautifully illustrated with some 700 color and b/w photos throughout. Includes some drawings of designs by Fernand Léger, Edouard Garcia, Boris Lacroix, etc. With bibliography at rear. "French jewelry of this period fully embodies the Art Decco revolt against academicism. The movement of liberation of forms is perfectly interpreted and translated by innovative jeweler-artists, the most prestigious of whom are Jean Fouquet, Gérard Sandoz, and Raymond Templier, to name just a few of incomparable stature. Under their hands traditional jewelry is transformed. It becomes an entirely new ornament, an object more closely related to Fernand Leger's paintings of machinery, to the geometric forms of Mondrian or Malevich than to classical adornments of the 18th and 19th centuries..." (Gabardi). Very good+ condition. Item #55971
ISBN: 2859170537
Price: $250.00