Cartier : 1900-1939
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Cartier : 1900-1939
Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press
- : paper
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 2, 1997, through August 3, 1997, and at the British Museum, London, from October 3, 1997, through February 1, 1998
Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-339) and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
-
ISBN 9780714105840
Description
The firm of Cartier, which celebrates its 150th anniversary in 1997, was by the end of the 19th century the major supplier of jewellery to the European aristocracy and their American counterparts. During the next four decades Cartier's work was marked by exceptional quality of design and execution. This catalogue, published to accompany a major exhibition at the British Museum, London, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, provides an insight into Cartier and includes items associated with the great figures who were its clients. The book illustrates and describes 227 items of jewllery and decorative accessories and also reproduces 70 highly finished designs, including many objects shown at the great international exhibition of "Arts Decoratifs" held in Paris in 1925. Contemporary archive photographs and some newly discovered plaster casts recording major pieces which no longer survive are also included.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - a brief history of Cartier: the period 1900-1939
- clients
- the production process
- the archive and surviving evidence
- the Cartier archive. Catalogue: 1900-1918 - the emergence of the Cartier style
- the Russian style
- fashionable accessories in gold and enamel
- the Egyptian style
- the Persian and Indian styles
- the Chinese and Japanese styles
- Cartier colour combinations
- diamond and precious stone jewellery between the wars
- designs.
- Volume
-
: paper ISBN 9780714105888
Description
The reputation of the Maison Cartier de Paris was established by the end of the 19th century, when it became the major supplier of jewellery to the European aristocracy and their American counterparts. This catalogue, first published to accompany exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the British Museum, provides an insight into the world of Cartier and its clients from Indian Maharajas to courtiers and film stars. In addition to 220 items of jewellery and decorative accessories illustrated and described in detail, the book also includes contemporary archive photographs, over 70 highly finished designs for pieces and a group of newly discovered plaster casts recording major pieces which no longer survive.
by "Nielsen BookData"