Cartier: 1900-1939 by Judy Rudoe, 1997 1st Edition Jewelry Book, Vintage Fashion Book

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Cartier--the very name evokes glamour, elegance, and distinction throughout the world. This sumptuous volume … Read more From inside the dust jacket :
Cartier--the very name evokes glamour, elegance, and distinction throughout the world. This sumptuous volume presents the company's spectacular creations from the first four decades of the twentieth century, a period marked by exceptional quality of design and execution. Superb photographs, many taken specially for this book, offer a breathtaking array of cartier's bracelets, brooches, necklaces, rings, watches, clocks and objets d'art.
The firm of Cartier was founded in Paris in 1847 and first came to prominence in the late 1890's, when it opened a new shop on the Rue de la Paix, the heart of the haute couture district, and set up its own design and manufacturing operation. By 1909 the firm had branches in London and New York--each with its own designers and workshops--and Cartier had become the favorite jeweler of European aristocrats and their American counterparts, Indian maharajas, members of the art world, and stars of the stage and screen.
Drawing on fresh research and Cartier's extraordinarily complete archives in Paris, London, and New York, author Judy Rudoe traces for the first time the history of individual jewels, identifying the clients who commissioned or purchased them and following the entire creative process from initial designs to finished pieces. Sketches and archival photographs reveal the astonishing variety of Cartier's creations, and previously unpublished original plaster casts document major pieces no longer in existence.
More than 225 objects, mainly from Cartier's own historic collection, and more than seventy finished designs are individually discussed and shown in stunning photographs. Also reproduced are Egyptian, Chinese, and other artifacts used by Cartier's designers as sources of inspiration, along with pages from order books, contemporary advertisements and trade catalogues, fashion photographs from Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and pictures of the firm's celebrated clientele--among them, Daisy Fellowes, the Begum Aga Khan, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Elsie de Wolfe, and Gloria Swanson--wearing their glittering Cartier jewels.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the British Museum, London, Cartier: 1900-1939 is a rich resource for collectors and connoisseurs, and will thrill all who dream about fine jewelry.
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