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Jewels by JAR
Adrian Sassoon
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Description for Jewels by JAR
Hardback. Called "the Faberge of our time" by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewellery designers. This book, featuring nearly 40 pieces from throughout JAR's career, provides a concise, accessible, elegantly designed retrospective of the best of his jewellery creations. Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Num Pages: 120 pages, 65 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AFKG; AFT; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 193 x 27. Weight in Grams: 850.
Called “the Fabergé of our time” by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewelry designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious stones resplendent with myriad shades of vibrant color and set in organic shapes: one brooch, for instance, features lifelike petals in subtly differentiated hues, made from a thousand pavé sapphires and amethysts. The New York Times has described his jewelry as “belligerent, stubborn, audacious, funny, contradictory,” while JAR himself has characterized his work as “somewhere between ... Read more
Called “the Fabergé of our time” by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewelry designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious stones resplendent with myriad shades of vibrant color and set in organic shapes: one brooch, for instance, features lifelike petals in subtly differentiated hues, made from a thousand pavé sapphires and amethysts. The New York Times has described his jewelry as “belligerent, stubborn, audacious, funny, contradictory,” while JAR himself has characterized his work as “somewhere between ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Series
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300198683
SKU
V9780300198683
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About Adrian Sassoon
Adrian Sassoon is a renowned gallerist and critic living in London.
Reviews for Jewels by JAR
"Jewels by JAR," the catalog for the exhibition of the same name ... at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is a jewel of a book with 69 photographs of incredible pieces by Joel Arthur Rosenthal, today's preeminent American jewelry designer, who has been working in Paris since the late 1970s for a small group of in-the-know clientele."-Los ... Read more