  | Book Details Title: Lacloche Joaillers (English and French Edition) |
Book DescriptionAbout the Author Laurence Mouillefarine is a freelance journalist who specializes in the art market and contributes to Architectural Digest, Le Figaro magazine and La Gazette Drouot. She is passionate about jewelry of the interwar period, and is the author, with Véronique Ristelhueber, of Raymond Templier, le bijou moderne, the first monograph on this jeweler (Norma, 2005). She has co-curated the exhibition Bijoux Art déco et avant-garde at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris in 2009 and is the author of the eponymous catalogue (Norma/Les Arts Déco, 2009). Fascinated by hidden domestic treasures, she has written, with Philippe Colin-Olivier, Vous Êtes riches sans le savoir (Le Passage, 2012). Read more Customers Review:I have been watching the price on this book as soon as it was shown on Amazon. I have read so many books on different jewelry collections, both private and museum, that mention stunningly beautiful pieces that were made by or sold by Lacloche Freres but there had not been any book about them. I could only find a few documented pieces that were photgraphed in other books. Finally this exhibition (which I was not able to go to France to see) was releasing a book with info and recent photographs. I am a Graduate Gemologist and in the jewelry world, but anyone would love this book! Eye-candy galore, large photographs, reproduced color renderings of the designs for now lost pieces, and a detailed list at the back of information about the people and creators. The company specialized in making lovely clocks and Vanity Cases, so detailed that they often took more than 700 hundred hours to create. Using the finest gem materials each item is a treasure, I only wish they were more photographs of the inside of these cases. A bi-lingual book, for those of us who do not speak or read French, 300 + large size pages of beauty, information for all whether professional or lay person, buy this book before they are gone. | |
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