Jewelry’s Shining Stars
Jewelry’s Shining Stars: A glossy guide for the gem-obsessed. This coffee table book featuring today’s collectibles and tomorrow’s jewelry heirlooms. Coffee table format, this jewelry tome offers an informative, vivid and lively insider’s peek into the imaginations, sensibilities and personalities of 38 designers who are shaping jewelry’s future.
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What the client has to say:
“I have met many Art Directors throughout my career, there is only one I have worked with and feel confident bringing to my clients in the past 10 years. He is a full-service agency in one person. His creativity is only matched by his ability to listen and understand clients’ needs. He creates alluring brand identities and is continually on the pulse of an ever-changing design world.” –Beth Bernstein, Jewelry Consultant and Editor
New Book Highlights
Jewelry’s Shining Stars
By Deidre Woollard in Style Women
While many people love jewelry it takes a combination of artistry, vision, and determination to rise to the top of the field as an independent jeweler. In “Jewelry’s Shining Stars” Beth Bernstein rounds up 38 designers who are known for their unique creations. What emerges through the profiles is a study into what drives the modern artist. The book’s foreword was written by internationally renowned jewelry designer, Stephen Webster, an iconoclast in the industry, famed for being a jeweler who brings a rock-and-roll aesthetic to the world of haute jewelry. The full-color coffee table book features designs, quotes, personal anecdotes about the industry. The artists profiled are inspired by other artists, by jazz music, by family, legacy, tradition and the sheer power and beauty of the stones. Each has strong opinions about the role of jewelry in the modern woman’s life. Jewelry is still something given (for many of the designers their favorite pieces were wedding rings and family heirlooms) but increasingly it is also what women choose for themselves to reflect who they are and what they are drawn to. Jewelry is personal style but it is also personal identity. To buy and wear a piece of value is to affirm to the world who you are and what you enjoy. They styles in the book vary greatly, from Todd Reed’s rough and raw diamonds with their edgy almost industrial quality to Arman Sarkisyan’s intricate award-winning museum-worth pieces, or Joseph Murray’s naturalistic and delicate branch-like designs. The artists take inspiration from nature, architecture, art movements, and historical styles. If you’ve ever wished that the jewelry spreads in W Magazine or Vogue were just a little longer this book is for you, it’s a glossy guide for the gem-obsessed.
