Van Cleef & Arpels

Van Cleef & Arpels
Author: Fabienne Falluel
Publisher: Association Paris-Musées
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1992
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Van Cleef and Arpels: Time, Nature, Love

Van Cleef and Arpels: Time, Nature, Love
Author: Nicolas Bos
Publisher: Skira Editore
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9788857241777

The extraordinary jewelry creations by the famous Maison from its beginnings to the present day. This book presents the legendary jewelry and precious objects of Van Cleef & Arpels, and how they relate to time, nature and love. Time is a fundamental element for both creativity and craftsmanship. Time gives objects their shape; defines their style; determines their function, social utility, and the choice of materials and techniques; indicates origin; hones taste; and reveals context. Time is interpreted through eight values inspired by Italo Calvino's Lezioni Americane, or Six Memos for the Next Millennium, to honor the iconic pieces created by Van Cleef & Arpels over the years, from Art Deco masterpieces to the illustrious Zip necklace, gravity-defying Mystery Set, or celebrated Minaudières-some of the most important innovations in the history of 20th century jewelry-making. Nature plays an equally important role for Van Cleef & Arpels as an ever-present source of inspiration and tribute, embodied in unique gems and timeless masterpieces drawing on flora and fauna. Van Cleef & Arpels is founded on love, the most powerful energy in the world. Each object is handcrafted with love, and Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry has sealed some of the century's most legendary love stories.In a brilliant historical and critical essay, illuminated by a stunning iconographic selection of jewelry, precious objects and archive materials, this work describes the Maison's eternal values of time, nature and love.

Set in Style

Set in Style
Author: Sarah D. Coffin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2011
Genre: Jewelry
ISBN: 9780500515716

Since its opening on the Place Vend�me in 1906, the jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels has played a leading role in setting style and design trends in luxury jewelry. Set in Style explores the historical significance of the firm's contributions to jewelry design in the 20th century. The book features more than 250 of Van Cleef & Arpels' most celebrated works from museum and private collections worldwide, including jewels, timepieces, fashion accessories and objets d'art and is published to accompany a major exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, New York City, opening in February 2011. Six accessible essays accompanied by nearly 300 photographs, including previously unpublished design drawings from the Van Cleef & Arpels archives, examine the precious pieces through the lenses of innovation, transformation, nature, exoticism, fashion and celebrity. Among the objects illustrated are a tiara worn by Grace Kelly; Elizabeth Taylor's amethyst, coral and diamond bracelet and pendant earrings; a bracelet and necklace owned by Eva Peron; and the 'Jarreti�re' bracelet owned by Marlene Dietrich, worn in the film Stage Fright.

Van Cleef and Arpels

Van Cleef and Arpels
Author: Sylvie Raulet
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Jewelers
ISBN: 9780789302014

The Van Cleef & Arpels saga started with the dynastic marriage of Leon Arpels' daughter Estelle to Alfred Van Cleef. Both the Van Cleefs and the Arpels family were renowned diamond merchants, and Estelle's husband joined up with his brothers-in-law in 1906 in opening up a store at 22 Place Vendome, the epicenter of the jewelry trade. The elegance of their designs and quality of their jewels made the firm an instant success. Since then Van Cleef & Arpels pioneered the minaudiere, a jeweled vanity case for ladies' cosmetics, patented an ingenious invisible setting for stones, and invented the fabled diamond "zip", among other renowned achievements. This lovely, full-color volume is a visual testimony to the success of one of the leading jewelers of modern times.

Set in Style

Set in Style
Author: Sarah D. Coffin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 9780910503860

Presents a catalog to accompany an exhibition focusing on the history of jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels.

Alhambra

Alhambra
Author: Nicholas Foulkes
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9782365112000

Bijou iconique créé par la maison Van Cleef & Arpels en 1968, le sautoir Alhambra est aujourd'hui une pièce majeure de la parure féminine. A l'occasion de son cinquantième anniversaire, cet ouvrage raconte la genèse de ce bijou devenu une signature de la maison Van Cleef & Arpels. Symbole de chance et porte-bonheur, le motif du trèfle à quatre feuilles puise son origine dans les fameux bijoux "Touch Wood" que la maison crée dans les années 1920. Motif icône de Van Cleef & Arpels depuis 1968, le trèfle s'est paré, au fil des années, des matières les plus nobles comme la nacre, l'onyx, la cornaline ou encore le lapis-lazuli. Il se décline aussi en de multiples combinaisons, offrant les porters les plus divers : sautoir, ras du cou, boucles d'oreilles, bracelet... La conception d'Alhambra offre toute l'expertise de la haute joaillerie : trèfle orné d'un délicat contour de perles d'or et précieuses associations de matières en font un bijou d'exception. Né à la fin des années 1960 – décennie qui révolutionna la mode, le style et les modes de pensée – le premier sautoir Alhambra séduit immédiatement les femmes. Stars, femmes du monde, fashionistas et élégantes du monde entier le portent, le superposent ou l'accumulent en rangs multiples et colorés... Ce livre raconte sa fabuleuse histoire, une histoire intimement liée à la création de la silhouette moderne. Au fil de documents issus des archives de la maison Van Cleef & Arpels et de grandes séquences "cinématographiques" signées de photographes majeurs, l'ouvrage donne à voir l'émergence des nouveaux de styles de vie et de mode qui révolutionnèrent ces dernières années et comment Alhambra s'inscrit pleinement dans son époque.