Research Catalog

Title

Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987 / Clare Phillips, editor.

Publication

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press in association with the Gilbert Collection Trust and Tiffany & Co., [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Phillips, Clare.
• Tiffany and Company.

Description

x, 310 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

"This book is edited by Clare Phillips, Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with essays by a team of leading jewellery historians. Their essays chart the transformation of the modest New York store, under Louis Comfort Tiffany, into a world leader; its artistic flowering under Louis Comfort Tiffany and the re-establishment of Tiffany as a great, international company following the Second World War. Full catalogue entries, all beautifully illustrated and many with specially commissioned photography, cover around two hundred pieces of jewellery dating from the 1850s to the 1980s."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 1848-1933 > Exhibitions
• Tiffany and Company > History > Exhibitions
• Jewelry > United States > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Jewelry > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions

Note

• "This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Bejewelled by Tiffany 1837-1987' held at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, Strand, London ... 24 June-26 November 2006"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-302) and index.

Contents

1. From fancy goods to a palace of jewels : the early decades of Tiffany & Co. / Clare Phillips -- 2. Tiffany and Paris 1850-1910 / Katherine Purcell -- 3. A gold standard for the Gilded Age / Ulysses Grant Dietz -- 4. Nature studies : the art jewellery of Louis Comfort Tiffany / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen -- 5. The Tiffany names : Tiffany and the cult of the individual designer-jeweller / Vivienne Becker -- 6. The glamour of Tiffany / John Loring -- Catalogue -- I. The rise of an American institution -- II. Tiffany, a 'temple of fancy' -- III. 'Such stuff as dreams are made on' : diamonds, pearls and a rainbow of jewels -- IV. Opulent accessories -- V. Nature -- VI. G. Paulding Farnham and the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 -- VII. Louis Comfort Tiffany -- VIII. Art deco -- IX. The New York World's Fair and the 1940s -- X. The return to the designer.

ISBN

0300116519 (cl : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006007267
• 9780300116519

OCLC

• ocm64585743
• SCSB-5279168

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Columbia University Libraries