Peter Chang is one of the leading British jewellery artists of today. He handles his medium - plastics, mainly acrylics - as if unaware of its main application in the mass production of everyday utensils, and rather like a precious material that needs to be treated with intense care and affection before it will reveal its true character and qualities. His bracelets and brooches are striking, big, colourful and luminous, then again delicate, small and frail but always unmistakable. After a long working process his splendidly colourful objects possess a suppleness and lightness that redirect attention to their base material, those highly adaptable plastics. Chang is undoubtedly the only jewellery artist at present who devotes himself to plastics with such rigorous consistency, having discovered them to be his most congenial medium. Peter Chang's prize-winning creations can be found in many important museum collections all over the world, including Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Cooper-Hewitt Mu

Peter Chang: It's Only Plastic...

Arts & Photography

Holzach, Cornelie

Sculpture

Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt

This, the first survey of its kind, is comprised of 60 objects by artists from around the world who deliberately use glass in their jewellery.

GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Jewelry

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Ilse-Neuman, Ursula

Page, Jutta

Antiques & Collectibles

Spans the oeuvre of the Berlin jewelry artist from the early 1980s to the present. A breath-taking journey from geometrical forms to casts from nature, from stone to his current work, which unite the entire creative work of the artist in a grand symbiosis.

Georg Dobler: Schmuck Jewellery 1980-2010 (English and German Edition)

Maas, Barbara

Weber, Christianne

Joppien, Rdiger

Wiewelhove, Hildegard

Graphic Design

Winfried Krüger (born 1944) belongs to that generation of jewellery artists who witnessed the birth of avant-garde jewellery in the 1960s. The skilled goldsmith liberated himself from precision, fineness and other virtues of his craft in order to allow free rein to his creativity. For Krüger jewellery is ever-present. From the tread of a shoe via the launch pad of a firework to the set of a science fiction film - he finds inspiration in all of these things. Translated into metal, extraordinary artworks are then created, which in the examination of ideas, form, materiality and surface show a modern, innovative understanding of jewellery, which he has imparted to his students over twenty years as lecturer at the technical college for design in Pforzheim. Nonetheless, Winfried Krüger has, as far as publishing his work is concerned, played hard to get. For the very first time the now available monograph presents the artist's work in a comprehensive retrospective, whose focus rests on the work from the last twenty years. Winfried Krüger is represented in numerous prestigious museums and collections, including Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim (DE), Designmuseo, Helsinki (FI), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (DE), Stedelijk Museum's-Hertogenbosch (NL), Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal (CAN), Die Neue Sammlung - The International Design Museum Munich (DE), Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen (NL), Musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne (CH). Text in English and German.

Winfried Kruger: No Title (German and English Edition)

The Pforzheim Jewellery Museum is the world's only museum in public ownership that is dedicated exclusively to jewelry. Its collections comprise originals from five millennia, from prehistoric times to the present day. Highlights include exquisite specimens from Greek and Etruscan antiquity and from the Renaissance and the Baroque periods, as well as outstanding examples of Art Nouveau jewelry plus its unique collection of contemporary art jewelry created since 1960. Two other collections, on permanent loan and displayed since 2006, provide important complementary insights into the diversity of jewelry: the Eva and Peter Herion collection of ethnographic jewelry and the Philipp Weber pocket watch collection owned by the Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw savings bank. Contents: Preface; The Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim: Its History and Mission; I) Historic Collection - Antiquity to Nineteenth Century; II) Historic and Modern Collection - Jugendstil to Twenty-First Century; III) Eva and Peter Herion Collection - Ethnographic Jewellery; IV) Pforzheim Jewellery Collection - History of the Jewellery Industry; Jewellery and Watches from Pforzheim; ISSP - International Society of Friends of the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim; The Reuchlinhaus. Text in English and German.

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim: Museum Guide

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

• An exciting documentation of the rediscovery and reinterpretation of ancient goldsmithing techniques, such as embossing, punching or guilloché engraving, by young jewelry designers• Including interviews, archived material, technical explanations and real-life examples• The 'Manufactory-Style Jewelry Design' project, including 'Pforzheim Revisited', has been included in the German Register of Best Safeguarding Practices for Intangible Cultural Heritage!Embossing, punching and guilloche engraving are techniques that have almost faded into oblivion. Today they are experiencing a new lease of life in contemporary jewelry. The Manufactory-Style Jewelry Design project fosters the passing down of experiential knowledge through the collaboration of artisans and designers from three generations. The book presents an excerpt of this success story by means of archive material and interviews with former masters, explains how the machines work, and illustrates contemporary examples.Text in English and German.

Embossing, Punching, Guilloché Engraving: Contemporary Artisanal Jewellery Production

Weber-Stöber, Christianne

Grimm, Andrea

Reisert-Hafner, Ruth

Benkert, Almut

History & Criticism

Gone Astray / Auf Abwegen: The Art of Gold- and Silversmithing on the Edge of Reason: Hollowware―Jewelry―Utensils / Zeitgenössische Gold- und ... Rande der Vernunft: Gefäß – Schmuck – Gerät

Zilioli, Ellen Maurer

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