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Vintage Costume Jewellery
The ultimate vintage costume jewellery collectors' guide, written by the ultimate collector.
Schreiner
Schreiner is a luxurious book offering a first concise history of one of North America's foremost designers of high-end costume jewelry, a genre of jewelry popularized by Coco Chanel and today one of the most collectible. Created in New York City by founder Henry Schreiner in 1932, the eponymous company flourished during the early 1940s. During the 1950s under the leadership of Henry's daughter, the company's unusual color combinations, hand-made settings, and use of custom-made stones set them apart from their contemporaries, leaving behind a legacy for jewelry experts and admirers to study, covet, and collect to this day. For thousands of collectors of Schreiner worldwide, Schreiner provid...
Vintage Costume Jewellery
With a look to the best designs and designers from the Victorian era through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, set against a backdrop of social and cultural history, this book brings the very best of the Carole Tanenbaum Collection to aficianados and would-be collectors alike.
Fabulous Fakes
A lavishly illustrated celebration of some of the finest examples of vintage costume jewelry ranges from the Victorian era, through the sophisticated designs of art deco and geometrics, to the designer and artisanal jewelry of the present, accompanied by valuable suggestions on how to distinguish a quality piece and appreciate its craftsmanship.
True to the Eyes
True to the Eyes' presents a selection of more than 200 photographs from the eclectic collection of Howard and Carole Tanenbaum. The book includes an interview with the Toronto-based collectors and essays exploring their deeply personal and socially aware approach to collecting. It highlights a range of photographic practices, from anonymous nineteenth-century daguerreotypes, tintypes, and albums to iconic works by Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis Hine, Brassaï, Diane Arbus, Lisette Model, and Vivian Maier as well as more recent photographs by Bruce Davidson, Edward Burtynsky, Jim Goldberg, Mary Ellen Mark, and Lynne Cohen.00Exhibition: Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada (23.01. - 07.04.2019)
Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER HE SET SAIL, the dominant understanding of Christopher Columbus holds him responsible for almost everything that went wrong in the New World. Here, finally, is a book that will radically change our interpretation of the man and his mission. Scholar Carol Delaney claims that the true motivation for Columbus’s voyages is very different from what is commonly accepted. She argues that he was inspired to find a western route to the Orient not only to obtain vast sums of gold for the Spanish Crown but primarily to help fund a new crusade to take Jerusalem from the Muslims—a goal that sustained him until the day he died. Rather than an avaricious glory hunter, Delaney r...
The Best of Costume Jewelry
Some of the most beautiful pieces of costume jewelry made since the 1940s are presented in full color photographs. The visual creations are enriched by an introduction by Lawrence Feldman of Fior in London. A value guide is included along with an index to make this book a useful, beautiful guide for collectors.
Costume Jewelry for Haute Couture
This sumptuously illustrated book surveys the exquisite range of costume jewelry produced by haute couture fashion houses, a subject until now overlooked by historians and fashion cognoscenti alike. The term “costume jewelry” was coined in the twentieth century for the use of non-precious metals and jewels for human adornment. This book showcases the extraordinary diversity and exceptional craftsmanship of this jewelry in hundreds of beautifully reproduced pieces from such fashion houses as Chanel, Balenciaga, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Schiaparelli, and Givenchy. “A time capsule of creativity.” ~ Dallas Morning News
Commander in Chic
With her “classic with a twist” sensibility, Michelle Obama oozes chic! Mikki Taylor, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on fashion, beauty, and style, has taken Mrs. Obama as her muse, to write the book women who admire them both have been waiting for, Commander in Chic. The nation’s major networks, radio stations, and newspapers call on Mikki Taylor not only to discuss the “Obama look” and its feverish impact on style, but to hear Taylor’s own smart advice on looking polished and pulled together. She’s been privy to Obama’s style philosophy as well as that of countless celebs through her longtime role as beauty and cover director at Essence magazine, where she colla...
