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Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987

Author: Clare Phillips; Tiffany and Company.
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press in association with the Gilbert Collection Trust and Tiffany & Co., ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book is edited by Clare Phillips, Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with essays by a team of leading jewellery historians. Their essays chart the transformation of the modest New York store, under Louis Comfort Tiffany, into a world leader; its artistic flowering under Louis Comfort Tiffany and the re-establishment of Tiffany as a great, international company following the Second World War.  Read more...
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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.
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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  Read more...

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