Chaumet Drawing from Nature

Gaelle Rio (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 0500023816 / ISBN 13: 9780500023815

Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2023

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Chaumet Drawing from Nature | Gaelle Rio (u. a.) | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2023 | Thames & Hudson Ltd | EAN 9780500023815 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chaumet Drawing from Nature
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500023816
• ISBN 13: 9780500023815
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 322W x 243H x 33D millimeters 322 millimeters width by 243 millimeters height by 33 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1852 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bücher

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Synopsis

A stunning celebration of the ravishing nature-themed drawings created by Parisian high jewelry house Chaumet from the eighteenth century to today.

One of the most storied high jewelry houses in Paris, Chaumet has been entwined with the history of France since its founding in 1780. Appointed official jeweler to Empress Joséphine, the house has passed down its unique savoir-faire for almost 240 years. Each generation of Chaumet jewelers has looked to the natural world as a key source of inspiration, dreaming up ruby orchids, delicate laurel wreath tiaras, striking diamond starbursts, and a beguiling array of animals―from birds and butterflies to snakes and octopuses―on necklaces, brooches, and headpieces.

Drawings were used not only to research and develop ideas, revealing little-known aspects of the creative process of jewelry design, but also to present fully conceptualized bespoke pieces to clients, tempting them to place an order. These beautiful and inventive drawings―many of which are published here for the first time―are presented in thematic chapters (“Flowers,” “Trees and Plants,” “Bestiary,” and “Universe”), while essays by curator Gaëlle Rio offer a concise art-historical perspective.

A visually fascinating compendium, Chaumet: Drawing from Nature will delight all lovers of jewelry, art, and nature.

300 color illustrations

About the Authors

Gaëlle Rio is Director of the Musée de la Vie Romantique in Paris. She specializes in nineteenth-century art and in her previous position at the Petit Palais curated a number of exhibitions, including “Jewelry from the Petit Palais”; “The Art of Pastel, from Degas to Redon”; and “Paris 1900.”

Marc Jeanson is former director of the National Herbarium at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He is currently the Botanical Director of the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech, Morocco.