| Description |
x, 310 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
| Note |
Published in conjunction with exhibition of same name held at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, Strand, London, 24 June - 26 Nov., 2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages300-302) and index. |
| Contents |
From fancy goods to a palace of jewels: the early decades of Tiffany and Co. -- Tiffany and Paris 1850-1910 -- A gold standard for the gilded age -- Nature studies: the art jewellery of Louis Comfort Tiffany -- The Tiffany names: Tiffany and the cult of the individual designer-jeweller -- The glamour of Tiffany -- The rise of an American institution -- Tiffany: a temple of fancy -- 'Such stuff as dreams are made on': diamonds, pearls and a rainbow of jewels -- Opulent accessories -- Nature -- G. Paulding Farnham and the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 -- Louis Comfort Tiffany. |
| Subject |
Tiffany and Company -- History -- Exhibitions.
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Jewelry -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
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Jewelry -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 1848-1933 -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Phillips, Clare.
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Tiffany and Company.
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Gilbert Collection.
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| ISBN |
0300116519 cloth alkaline paper |
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