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The Watch Book Rolex Updated & Expanded Edition
Gisbert L. Brunner
Watch lovers and Rolex admirers delight! In this new edition of The Watch Book Rolex, expert Gisbert L. Brunner guides you through the wonderful world of this luxury watch brand with passion, attention to detail, and consistently impressive expertise. The waterproof “Oyster,” the “Datejust,” or the more than half-a-century-old diver’s “Submariner”: timepiece aficionado Brunner walks readers through the innovative technology and design behind iconic Rolex models. Brand-new entries from the Rolex 2020 and 2021 collection celebrate the latest crowns of Rolex achievement.
With trilingual texts in German, English, and French and some 400 colour and black-and-white photographs, this is a delight of a book for watch lovers, watch collectors, and Rolex devotees around the globe.
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In this new edition of The Watch Book Rolex, expert Gisbert L. Brunner guides readers through both classic and contemporary Rolex timepieces, including the latest 2020 and 2021 models.
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teNeues Verlag GmbH 314 x 245mm. 272pp., 420 illus. September 2021 £59.95, Hardback English, French, German Page 108, ©Christie’s, Geneva
Japanese Screens
Anne-Marie Christin, Claire-Akiko Brisset, Torahiko Terada
Japanese screens (byobu) are made of wooden lattices with two to twelve panels, covered with a canvas of paper or fabric. Artists incorporated shadows and other elements on the canvas to direct the viewer’s eye from one panel to the next. Screens are unique for being beautiful artworks as well as lightweight, portable objects, acting as backdrops for court ceremonies or partitions for intimate tea services.
This sumptuous book explores the 1,300-year history of screens created in Japan. It includes 250 colour illustrations, many reproduced to full page, showing the screens to their best advantage. It features Japanese-sewn binding and is kept in a clamshell box, which contains foldout poster reproductions of six screens housed in a separate pocket inside the box.
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Abbeville Press 355 x 254mm. 280pp., 166 col. October 2021 £124.99, Hardback A lavishly illustrated history of Japanese screens, limited to 3,000 numbered copies. Includes a postersize reproduction of an exceptional Japanese screen suitable for framing.
Love, Fight, Feast The Multifaceted World of Japanese Narrative Art
Khanh Trinh
The use of pictures to communicate a story has a long tradition in Japanese culture that dates back more than a thousand years. Such narrative illustrations draw on Buddhist texts, classic literature, poetry, and theatrical scenes to create rich visual imagery realised in a wide range of media and format. Love, Fight, Feast features some one hundred paintings, woodblock prints, illustrated woodblock-printed books, as well as lacquer and metal objects, porcelain, and textiles from the 13th to the 20th century, alongside scholarly essays on a range of aspects of Japanese narrative art.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the renowned Museum Rietberg in Zurich, the book offers a unique survey of the multifaceted, colourful, and imaginative world of Japanese narrative art across eight centuries.
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Scheidegger & Spiess 280 x 240mm. 328pp., 170 col. September 2021 £45.00, Paperback A uniquely comprehensive survey of Japanese narrative art (Monogatari-e, or story pictures) across eight centuries, featuring some 100 rarely or never before published art works.
Dazzling Official Jun Wares From Museums and Collections Around the World
Rose Kerr
Jun wares were made in north China over a period of 400 years, from the 11th to the 15th centuries. These ceramics are unique both for their artistry and the complex techniques required to produce them. Jun wares are subtle yet dramatic – red and purple bursts of colour splash across thick, cloudy blue glazes, containing bubbles and many gradations of tone. To achieve these effects, the production of Jun ware was complex and ingenious, relying on novel techniques.
This book gathers illustrations and descriptions of some of the finest Jun wares in private and public collections around the world. Copious illustrations are augmented with a scholarly essay, and 191 pieces of June Ware are highlighted, with 425 illustrations from 17 major museums.
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ACC Art Books 317 x 267mm. 288pp., 425 col. September 2021 £125.00, Hardback This book gathers illustrations and descriptions of some of the finest Jun wares in private and public collections around the world.
India: A Story Through 100 Objects
Vidya Dehejia
We are constantly surrounded by objects, by ‘things’ that channel and dictate our everyday life, ‘things’ that we take for granted. These objects have a story to tell that reflects our values and aspirations, our achievements and dreams, and reveal more about us than we realise! This book focuses on 100 objects to tell a story of India. The stories that some objects tell will be new to readers; at other times, the objects themselves may be familiar but the story they tell may not be obvious.
The 100 objects shed light on the varying priorities and the differing strands of achievement that arose over time to create the rich multi-cultural medley that is today’s India.
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Roli Books 254 x 203mm. 280pp., 186 col. September 2021 £29.95, Hardback This richly illustrated book focuses on 100 objects to tell a story of India that unravels in a series of thematic sections that allow the objects to take centre-stage.
Understanding Jewellery, by authors David Bennett and Daniela Mascetti, is often described as the must-have jewellery book of our time. First published in 1989, it has remained in print ever since. In this new work, Bennett and Mascetti have concentrated on the 20th century alone by conducting a detailed survey of each decade, identifying the key players, trends and movements.
The book is an encyclopaedic history of the various forms, techniques and materials employed by the companies and individuals who defined jewellery in the 20th century. Most significantly, this book includes a new set of photographs, which make it one of the most dazzling, absorbing and varied collections of jewellery images ever assembled in a book.
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ACC Art Books 325 x 275mm. 324pp., 450 illus. September 2021 £55.00, Hardback One of the most dazzling, absorbing and varied collections of jewellery images ever assembled in a book, from the authors of Understanding Jewellery.
The Jewellery Box
Jorunn Veitegerg
Jorunn Veiteberg has been wearing jewellery with a passion ever since she was a teenager. Covering nearly 50 years, her collection contains some 550 items, including work by 210 jewellery artists from 30 different countries, some by unknown craftspeople, some even mass-produced. Conventional forms live side by side with experimental objects, and political statements mingle with humorous asides. It is this collection that makes up The Jewellery Box.
The book deals with how Veiteberg became a collector, why she focused on art jewellery, and what it can do for us. It’s a personal story, but at the same time the volume is a contribution to the recent history of crafts, one that expands our understanding of jewellery.
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Arnoldsche Art Publishers 207 x 148mm. 552pp., 1000 col. Available £42.00, Hardback Covering nearly 50 years, Jorunn Veiteberg’s collection contains some 550 items, including work by 210 jewellery artists from 30 different countries.
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Understanding Jewellery
David Bennett & Daniela Mascetti
Understanding Jewellery is a comprehensive guide to 19th and 20th Century jewellery. From the methods used to identify and date pieces, to the factors that can affect their value, this volume contains an abundance of expertise relating to precious stones and metals. With almost 1000 magnificent colour illustrations accompanied by straightforward but thorough explanations, this publication offers a richer and more accessible reading experience than traditional textdominated books.
Including introductions to precious and semi-precious stones, and details of the stylistic developments of jewellery over the last 200 years, this volume is a standard work of reference and an invaluable tool for collectors and dealers alike.
Christie’s The Jewellery Archives Revealed
Vincent Meylan
For centuries, the stories of the world’s great jewellery collections have lain hidden within the archives of Christie’s, the celebrated auctioneers. From the tragic European queens, Mary, Queen of Scots and Marie Antoinette, to Hollywood royalty such as Elizabeth Taylor, the vaults sparkle with the most celebrated (and occasionally notorious) names of the last 250 years. Author Vincent Meylan explores these remarkable jewellery archives, revealing the mysteries within for the first time.
Expertly curating the extensive archives, Vincent Meylan has drawn out the key details of each momentous sale. Original documents from the vaults are reproduced in the book, alongside hundreds of colour illustrations of the jewels and their owners.
Van Cleef and Arpels Treasures and Legends
Vincent Meylan
From Empress Farah and the secrets of the treasure of Iran, to Queen Marie Amélie’s missing emeralds, via Fantômas and the blood-red rubies of the kings of Burma, entering the world of Van Cleef & Arpels is like embarking upon a fascinating treasure hunt. In this book, Vincent Meylan explores a century in the history of one of the most prestigious Parisian jewellery dynasties. He opens doors and unlocks caskets to reveal the mysterious, and sometimes fantastic, stories of its clients and the fabulous and exceptional stones that they entrusted to the “golden hands” of Van Cleef & Arpels.
Van Cleef & Arpels: Treasures and Legends is full of extravagant fairy tales and fascinating behind-the-scenes revelations.
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ACC Art Books 279 x 234mm. 496pp., 977 col., 44 b.&w. Reprint, available £49.50, Hardback
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ACC Art Books 295 x 245mm. 360pp., 234 col., 76 b.&w. Reprint, available £55.00, Hardback
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ACC Art Books 295 x 245mm. 344pp., 247 col., 150 b.&w. Reprint, available £55.00, Hardback
Emily Stoehrer, Melanie Grant, Juliet Weir-de La Rochefoucauld, Ming Liu, Vanessa Cron
Father of The Wallace Cut – an illusionary three-dimensional gemstone carving technique – and The Wallace Chan Porcelain – a ground-breaking material five times stronger than steel – Wallace Chan is a guiding light in the world of jewellery design. Always innovating, always testing boundaries with his materials and technique, Chan’s creations are as stunning as they are intricate.
Compiled by jewellery experts, this title explores the cultural and personal significance of Wallace Chan’s most famous emblem: the butterfly. Winged Beauty: The Butterfly Jewellery Art of Wallace Chan features approximately 30 of his finest pieces.
Wallace Chan’s butterfly house of colourful gems, with brooches and necklaces so delicate they might have flown down and alighted on the page.
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ACC Art Books 270 x 220mm. 240pp., 100 col. August 2021 £35.00, Hardback
