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| Genre/Form: | Exhibitions |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Louis Comfort Tiffany |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Clare Phillips; Tiffany and Company. |
| ISBN: | 0300116519 9780300116519 |
| OCLC Number: | 64585743 |
| Notes: | "This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Bejewelled by Tiffany 1837-1987' held at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, Strand, London ... 24 June-26 November 2006"--T.p. verso. |
| Description: | x, 310 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | From fancy goods to a palace of jewels: the early decades of Tiffany & Co. / Clare Phillips -- Tiffany and Paris 1850-1910 / Katherine Purcell -- A gold standard for the gilded age / Ulysses Grant Dietz -- Nature studies: the art jewellery of Louis Comfort Tiffany / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen -- The Tiffany names: Tiffany and the cult of the individual designer-jeweller / Vivienne Becker -- The glamour of Tiffany / John Loring -- The rise of an American institution -- Tiffany, a 'temple of fancy' -- 'Such stuff as dreams are made on': diamonds, pearls and a rainbow of jewels -- Opulent accessories -- Nature -- G. Paulding Farnham and the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 -- Louis Comfort Tiffany -- Art deco -- The New York World's Fair and the 1940s -- The return to the designer. |
| Responsibility: | Clare Phillips, editor. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Edited by the curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, this work contains essays by a team of leading historians of American jewellery that trace the history of Tiffany & Co. It features illustrated catalogue entries, which cover around two hundred pieces of jewellery dating from the 1850s to the 1980s.
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