Drawing Jewels for Fashion
Over thirty leading international jewellery designers open their sketchbooks and studios to reveal the inspirations behind their work.
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Published by Prestel (ISBN: 978-3-7913-4602-1), and available from Amazon.
The Book
This book examines the relationship between drawing and jewellery design with insightful interviews with each designer that shed light on the creative process and tell a gripping story of how an idea is transformed into a beautiful, polished jewel.
The Drawings
In this collection of fashion illustrations of jewels, pages from the designers' sketchbooks, images from their mood boards and photographs of their newest designs are featured. Organised thematically around topics of civilisation, the natural world, art and architecture, culture and literature, raw materials and history this is a compelling mix of text and visual display presenting the best of art of jewellery design.