MODERN JEWELLERY DESIGN comes packed with full-page color photos of the latest design fashions, with color photos and close-ups of bracelets, rings, necklaces and more accompanied by German and English descriptions and in-depth surveys of the artists and their influences. College-level libraries strong in jewelry design will find this an outstanding survey of the works of many contemporary artists - and a 'must' for enhancing any library strong in world designers and their innovations.

Traditional magnificent jewels, cheap mass-produced jewellery, the passing whims of fashion: they all draw on the fading fragments of the old jewellery mystique, on enchantment long past. However, entirely new themes exist in jewellery, following the Modernist trend: meditative clarity,concentrated lines of force, wearable sculpture, innovative gemstone cutting, diamonds that seem to hover, constructions based on tension, new materials and symbols, combined with fun, refreshing playfulness, humorous allusions, poetic takes on the mundane, story-telling in metal and stone as well as romanticism with an emphasis on emotion and, most recently of all,increasingly luxurious sensuousness with the clarity retained.

Preface  What is Modern Jewellery Design?

Acknowledgements

Review

Chapter 1 Origins of Modern Jewellery Design

Chapter 2 The Goldsmithing Renaissance after 1945

Present

Chapter 3 Clear Form andMinimalism

Chapter 4 Coloured Precious Stones in a New Light

Chapter 5 Jewellery as Sculpture

Chapter 6 Contemporary Pearl Design

Chapter 7 Variable Jewellery Systems

Chapter 8 Traditional Values with Modern Influences

Chapter 9 New Signs and Symbols

Chapter lO Concepts of Young Jewellery Designers

Development

Chapter 11 Jewellery Designers and Modern Manufactories

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