Jewelry Designs: The Secrets of Creation.
Paris Museums/Petit Palais| N° d'inventaire | 31562 |
| Format | 22.5 x 30 |
| Détails | 232 p., numerous illustrations and color photographs, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782759606016 |
The Petit Palais boasts a little-known collection of jewelry designs: nearly 5,700 sheets, notebooks, and models, featuring gouaches by Lalique and designers from the Maisons Boucheron and Rouvenat alongside the studio collections of Pierre Georges Deraisme and Charles Jacqueau, a major designer at the Maison Cartier. Periods and styles intersect, blending designs from the Second Empire with those of Art Deco, and the historicizing styles of the second half of the 19th century with Art Nouveau.
Tracing its path from inspiration to the finished piece, this book reveals every step of the creative process—studies, preparatory sketches, final editing, and coloring. A large part of the work is given to reproductions, most often life-size, of these "jewels on paper," whether they be working documents, precious archives, demonstrations of virtuosity, or works of art in their own right.
The Petit Palais boasts a little-known collection of jewelry designs: nearly 5,700 sheets, notebooks, and models, featuring gouaches by Lalique and designers from the Maisons Boucheron and Rouvenat alongside the studio collections of Pierre Georges Deraisme and Charles Jacqueau, a major designer at the Maison Cartier. Periods and styles intersect, blending designs from the Second Empire with those of Art Deco, and the historicizing styles of the second half of the 19th century with Art Nouveau.
Tracing its path from inspiration to the finished piece, this book reveals every step of the creative process—studies, preparatory sketches, final editing, and coloring. A large part of the work is given to reproductions, most often life-size, of these "jewels on paper," whether they be working documents, precious archives, demonstrations of virtuosity, or works of art in their own right.