Le bijou dessiné, designing jewels. Rome Toutes étaient l’oeuvre de l’art

Toutes étaient l’oeuvre de l’art des hommes : statues

the "Haute Dentelle" exhibition offers a unique insight into the ultra-contemporary uses of lace within the most demanding of fashion arts

and the Roman Empire

after several decades of development of Roman citizenship but before the choice of the emperor Caracalla to grant it to all the free inhabitants of the empire

Le bijou dessiné, designing jewels. Rome Toutes étaient l’oeuvre de l’artJewelry design has long remained hidden from public view. Whether functional or the bearers of unfulfilled dreams, these paper jewels have nevertheless, since the 15th century, been the shadowy side of the models to which they often gave birth. This book presents around a hundred drawings, mainly from the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection on Jewelry Culture, dating from the second half of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. It sheds