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This is the first publication to document the development of modern design for serially manufactured jewellery, starting from the arts&crafts-movement up to the present day. This independent style category in the world of jewellery – with references to modern art, architecture and design – has established itself mainly in the German-speaking realm. Modern jewellery design is created in small to medium-sized manufactories and ateliers and is a countercurrent to conventional luxury jewellery. Since the 1990s, this kind of jewelry has also increasingly attracted attention in the USA, Spain, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and Asia.

The author starts with a short retrospect of the origins of modern jewelry, i.e. the Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Bauhaus and Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movements. The renaissance of the goldsmithing art since the mid-1960s provided the formal and intellectual basis for the development of modern design for serially manufactured jewellery.

The comprehensive illustration section shows the outstanding pieces created by the prominent classics of modern jewellery design as well as those of today’s protagonists. The most important jewellery manufactories and jewellery designers are portrayed in 60 short profiles, presenting a considerable part of the Scandinavian and German jewellery history from around 1960 to the present day.

As former editor-in-chief of the “Schmuck Magazin” and “Art Aurea” magazines the author, Reinhold Ludwig, has closely followed the development of modern jewellery design especially in the past 30 years.

400 pages, 24 × 32 cm, more than 800 colored illustrations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bilingual German and English.
EUR 49.80 [Germany], CHF 89.00
ISBN 978-3-89790-292-3

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