Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987 / Clare Phillips.
By: Phillips, Clare
Contributor(s): Tiffany and Company
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2006.Description: x, 310 p. : ill. (col.) ; 29 cm.ISBN: 0300116519Subject(s): Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 1848-1933 | Tiffany and Company -- History | Jewelry -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Jewelry -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 739.2709747/1Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | British Museum | Britain Europe and Prehistory | Shelves | JW 4/8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 10001944 |
Includes selected bibliography (p.300-302) and index.
From fancy goods to a palace of jewels: the early decades of Tiffany and Co. -- Tiffany and Paris 1850-1910 -- A gold standard for the gilded age -- Nature studies: the art jewellery of Louis Comfort Tiffany -- The Tiffany names: Tiffany and the cult of the individual designer-jeweller -- The glamour of Tiffany -- The rise of an American institution -- Tiffany: a temple of fancy -- 'Such stuff as dreams are made on': diamonds, pearls and a rainbow of jewels -- Opulent accessories -- Nature -- G. Paulding Farnham and the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 -- Louis Comfort Tiffany.