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Rings of the 20th and 21st centuries : the Alice and Louis Koch collection =Ringe des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts : die Sammlung Alice und Louis Koch

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Rings of the 20th and 21st centuries : the Alice and Louis Koch collection =Ringe des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts : die Sammlung Alice und Louis Koch / Beatriz Chadour-Sampson ; [translator: Saskia Bontjes van Beek].

Author

Chadour-Sampson, Anna Beatriz, 1953-

Publication

[Stuttgart] : Arnoldsche Art Publishers, [2019]
©2019

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519 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm

Summary

The Alice and Louis Koch Collection of finger rings was originally collated by a jeweler from Frankfurt am Main, once described as the German 'Cartier and Fabergé'. By 1909 the collection comprised 1,722 rings from Antiquity to 1900. René Lalique, a contemporary of the time, was included, undoubtedly as a modernizer of the ring form. In the past twenty-five years the fourth generation of the family continued where Louis Koch and his wife Alice left off and expanded the collection to include rings from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 00This publication will present the complete collection of contemporary rings, now kept in the Swiss National Museum, Zurich. Nearly 600 rings by artist jewelers from around the world document how these miniature works of art have become modern sculptures showcasing new materials and techniques, daring designs and current themes.

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Language (note)

Parallel text in English and German.

ISBN

9783897905160
3897905167

OCLC

on1035758317
SCSB-9585137

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Princeton University Library