3 new jewellery books to add to your coffee table
The first is exclusively dedicated to a Cartier collection, the second pays tribute to the photographers who have sublimated Chaumet jewellery, while the third highlights the jewels of a discreet collector.
Cartier, Wild Nature
In this new high jewellery collection, Cartier reveals a new facet of its fauna through fascinating creations. The panther, the tiger, the snake, the zebra, the birds... these emblematic animals are an infinite source of creativity and inspire a majestic imagination. They are actors in a story, staged in their natural environment or in unexpected, sometimes mysterious universes. The pieces invite those who contemplate them to immerse themselves in the settings and the brilliance of the precious stones, and to let the marvelous fiction they represent resonate within them.
By François Chaille and Hélène Bouillon, published by Flammarion.
Chaumet, Photographers' Views
Aware of the power of images to enhance its creations, Chaumet celebrates through this book the close ties it maintains with photography. Produced in the form of a retrospective restoring an exceptional collection of press editorials from 1934 to 2020, the book pays tribute to the work of Henry Clarke, Guy Bourdin, Bettina Rheims and Richard Burbridge, and also highlights the most emblematic commissions of the House. A special notebook even presents an anthology of precious glass plates from the beginning of the 20th century. And through the images, the visions and testimonies of intersect to reveal Chaumet jewellery in a new light.
By Carol Woolton, Sylvie Lécallier and Flora Triebel, published by Citadelles & Mazenod.
Divine Jewels
This impressive volume presents for the first time the unique collection of historical jewels of Kazumi Arikawa, a relatively unknown Japanese collector, although he has lent major works to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and Van Cleef & Arpels in Paris. Now founder and president of Albion Art Jewelry Institute in Tokyo, after spending several years as a Buddhist monk, he has, throughout his career, sought out the most dazzling gems, and owned rare pieces of unequaled artistic and historical value. For him, the art of jewellery is a spiritual journey, an exaltation of emotions and a celebration of universal beauty, which he has made it his mission to spread throughout the world.
By Kazumi Arikawa, with contributions from jewelry historian Diana Scarisbrick and previously unpublished photographs by Nils Herrmann . Published by Flammarion.
