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| Drawing Jewels for Fashion | | In this illustrated collection of fashion illustrations of jewels, Vogue jewelry editor Carol Woolton draws out the essence of the jewelry designers' creative energy. Organized thematically around the topics of civilization, the natural world, art and architecture, culture and literature, raw materials and history, this book examines the relationship between drawing and jewelry design and features pages from the designers' sketchbooks, images from their mood boards, and photographs of their newest designs. | astore.amazon.com/detail/3791346024
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| Maggie Meister's Classical Elegance | | This entry in Lark Jewelry & Beading's bestselling Beadweaving Master Class series showcases the amazing work of renowned beader and teacher Maggie Meister. Drawing on patterns and motifs as diverse as classical Roman arts, Middle Eastern textiles, and European architecture, Maggie has created 20 exquisite projects for beaders to make that incorporate a variety of stitches. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1600596916
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| Bulgari: 125 Years of Italian Magnificence | | A kaleidoscopic, colorful, and dazzlingly illustrated history of Bulgari jewelry, this engaging book showcases more than three hundred objects from the late-nineteenth century to the present day. The catalogue highlights Bulgari's signature use of gold coins and serpent motifs. And an entire section is devoted to Bulgari and the film industry of the fifties and sixties. | astore.amazon.com/detail/8857208303
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| Contemporary Jewellers | | Contemporary Jewellers offers an essential reference for anyone interested in contemporary European jewellery design. Through guided conversations with the major designers of today, Roberta Bernabei reveals the creative, conceptual and technical working practices that underpin the aesthetic of each practitioner's work. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1845207696
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| Vintage Jewelry Design | | Vintage Jewelry Design showcases classic vintage jewelry from the past 100 years. Featuring examples that epitomize the iconic styles of each decade, it offers an overview of the most influential designers, their sources of inspiration, and materials of choice. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1600597149
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| Wire Jewellery | | As well as being one of the earliest and most traditional materials for making jewelery, wire working is one of the most accessible of jewellery making processes. Hans Stofer's practical book is an essential introductory guide to wire jewelery for newcomers and a highly useful reference tool and source of inspiration for established jewelers. | astore.amazon.com/detail/071366634X
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| 500 Silver Jewelry Designs | | This new addition to the 500 series is an outstanding collection of handmade silver jewelry by both established and emerging international designers. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1600596312
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| Jewelry Design Challenge | | Challenges are one of the hottest crafting trends, so we put a who's who of modern jewelry artists to the test. Chosen for their different aesthetic visions, 30 designers received a box containing nine jewelry supplies with the request that they create a piece using only those items, plus one "wild card" material of their choice. These are their show stopping designs, complete with how-to steps for making them. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1600596029
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| Amazing Cartier: Jewelry Design since 1937 | | Cartier's peerless designers have continued to amaze decade after decade - from the 1930s into the twenty-first century - with their fanciful and trendsetting creations. This volume charts the rise of the pioneering company from 1937 - detailing its capacity for invention and reinvention, its themes and inspirations-and pays tribute to the visionaries who made its name. | astore.amazon.com/detail/2080300989
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| 500 Plastic Jewelry Designs | | The popular 500 series takes its hippest, most fun approach yet, with an intoxicatingly vibrant and technically diverse collection of contemporary jewelry. Juror Susan Kasson Sloan has put together a groundbreaking survey of the best work being done with this thoroughly modern material. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1600593402
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| Jewelry Design | | The various creations by international designers presented in this book give us an outline on current trends and developments in the field of jewelry. Their work is presented as a snapshot of individual practices, a broad sampling of innovative creations and forward-looking designers. | astore.amazon.com/detail/3866540493
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| Calder Jewelry | | Alexander Calder's jewellery has the same linear yet three-dimensional quality as his famous mobiles, and the parts that comprise each piece are hammered, shaped, and composed in a fashion that echoes the artist's creation of his sculpture. The newly commissioned photographs are accompanied by examples of Calder's inventory drawings; the boxes he made to store the jewellery; historic photographs of his jewellery worn by notable patrons, art collectors, and artists; and a chronology. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0300134282
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