The Soul of Jewelry

All images © Simone Cavadini @ Talent & Partner

The Soul of Jewellery

WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MARC JEANSON, ERIK GONTHIER, JOANA VASCONCELOS, JAKOB+MACFARLANE, BENOIT REPELLIN, EVELYNE POSSÉMÉ, KAROL BEFFA, CAROLE MARTINEZ, FRÉDÉRIC MALLE, CHARLINE COUPEAU, VIRGINIE MOUZAT, SOPHIE PELLETIER, AMIN JAFFER, EMANUELE COCCIA, JULIA HETTA

A comprehensive volume celebrating jewellery, featuring a broad range of artistic and intellectual perspectives.

This volume offers unique and previously unpublished insight on the world of jewellery. Calling upon specialists from every creative and intellectual discipline—artist or composer, botanist or perfumer, novelist or philosopher—this reference volume examines jewellery in all of its different facets, from anthropology to philosophy to art. Alongside its sensitive and cultural insight into the art of jewellery making, this volume is richly illustrated with drawings and archives from Maison Chaumet and photographs by Simone Cavadini and Julia Hetta that offer new perspectives on the jewel.

This tome has been published in collaboration with Maison Chaumet.

Contributors include botanist Marc Jeanson, mineralogist Erik Gonthier, artist Joana Vasconcelos, architects Jakob+MacFarlane, auctioneer Benoit Repellin, senior curator and specialist in Art Deco Evelyne Possémé, composer and pianist Karol Beffa, novelist Carole Martinez, perfumer Frédéric Malle, art historian Charline Coupeau, journalist Virginie Mouzat, French literature specialist Sophie Pelletier, senior curator and specialist in Asian art Amin Jaffer, philosopher Emanuele Coccia, and photographer Julia Hetta.

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256 pages, 114 x 136” 200 color illustrations HC: 9782080242471 $75.00 Can: $100.00 October 12, 2021 Rights: US/Canada, Latin America FLAMMARION