Bejeweled: Great Designers, Celebrity Style

Bejeweled: Great Designers, Celebrity Style by Proddow, Penny. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780810906167.

Tiffany, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Harry Winston, Bulgari. These names inspire visions of sparkling diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds, evoking images of the glamorous bedecked and bejeweled women who wear them. But what about the other jewelry greats of the twentieth century - and there were many - who fulfilled their own distinct niches in the high-style world of jewelry? Those such as the aesthete Henri Vever, the rock hound Marcus, the great promoter of American style Charlton, and the Hollywood insider Paul Flato, who adorned movie stars like Katherine Hepburn and Joan Crawford during the 1930s and 40s? Or those artists who didnt work with precious gems but new, revolutionary materials, achieving an equally high level of glamour and style, such as Alexander Calder and Jean Fouquet, who bewitched and bejeweled the avant-garde set? Or any of the hot contemporary jewelers working today, such as Elsa Peretti, Robert Lee Morris, and Barry Kieselstein-Cord, among others, whose designs turn up on bejeweled modern-day stars and socialites at red-carpet premieres, charity balls, and the Academy Awards? With all the voluptuous glitz and glamour of its subject, Bejeweled: Great Designers, Celebrity Style explores the work of these important twentieth-century jewelry designers, as well as many more, celebrating their trendsetting creations and the style divas who wear them.