Lydia Courteille : extraordinary jewellery of imagination and dreams /
Parisian jeweller Lydia Courteille has been making a very special name for herself over the past thirty years; with her avant-garde and unusual jewellery designs, she has been keeping the Place Vendome Jewellery Houses on their toes. Taking her inspiration from cultural landmarks in France and from...
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Published: |
ACC Art Books,
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Publisher Address: | Woodbridge, Suffolk, England : |
Publication Dates: | [2016] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Summary: |
Parisian jeweller Lydia Courteille has been making a very special name for herself over the past thirty years; with her avant-garde and unusual jewellery designs, she has been keeping the Place Vendome Jewellery Houses on their toes. Taking her inspiration from cultural landmarks in France and from numerous historical and literary sources including film, she has combined her love of unusual gemstones with colour combinations that speak to the senses. To see, to touch and to wear Courteille's jewels is to travel to rarely visited spots in the world, from the sulphurous volcanic landscape of t |
Item Description: | Includes index. |
Carrier Form: | 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm |
ISBN: |
9781851498376 (hardback) : 1851498370 (hardback) |
Index Number: | NK7198 |
CLC: | J536.1(565) |
Call Number: | J536.1(565)/L327 |