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Alchemy : A Passion for Jewels SIGNED Temple St. Clair ☆ VG Hardcover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed By
- Temple St. Clain
- Signed
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061198731
- Book Title
- Alchemy : a Passion for Jewels
- Item Length
- 11.1 in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Design, Art
- Topic
- General, Jewelry
- Item Width
- 9.9 in
- Item Weight
- 50.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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An exquisite look into the art of fine jewelry making, through the eyes of famed designer Temple St. Clair A Southern girl with a nomadic spirit and a voracious appetite for history and culture, Temple St. Clair grew up spending summer vacations in Morocco and Bavaria, studied at an international boarding school in Switzerland, and went night diving in Honduras with the son of Jacques Cousteau. In her early twenties, St. Clair landed in Florence, where she completed a master's in Italian literature. In fact, she had no exposure to jewelry making until her visiting mother bought an ancient coin and asked St. Clair to commission a local goldsmith to make a piece of jewelry around it. Armed with the coin and a sketch, St. Clair entered the ancient Palazzo dell'Orafo of Florentine goldsmiths, where she first discovered the centuries-old art of fine Italian jewelry making. Inspired by the distinctive craftsmanship, St. Clair continued to work with artisans to bring her designs to life. A new world soon began to open up to her-a world that engaged her multicultural education, vast experiences, and rich curiosity; a world that awarded her with a new identity as "an amateur anthropologist, a hopeless hunter and gatherer, a bit of a wanderer, and a self-made jewelry historian who loves to dream and draw." With an artist's eye for detail and an unwavering esteem for the historic, St. Clair creates one-of-a-kind pieces that combine ancient influences with traditional craftsmanship and contemporary flair. In Alchemy, she takes readers on an idiosyncratic excursion into the intricate history and craft of jewelry making-from the ancient origins of talismans and charms, to the complicated pursuit of the perfect gemstone-all through the lens of her own fascinating experiences. The result is a mesmerizing and visually stunning book that will appeal to jewelry lovers, artistic dreamers, and anyone who suffers from wanderlust.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061198730
ISBN-13
9780061198731
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65636563
Product Key Features
Book Title
Alchemy : a Passion for Jewels
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Jewelry
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Design, Art
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11.1 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
9.9 in
Item Weight
50.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Nk7398.S73a2 2008
Reviews
With her proper private-school upbringing in Virginia, penchant for escape, and genteel-sounding name, Temple St. Clair Carr is the kind of woman Henry James might have immortalized as a heroine., St. Clair presents a quirkily luxurious scrapbook of the experiences that led her to jewelry design, beginning in her junior year abroad in Italy, when she hunted down a Florentine artisan to help her make a necklace for her mother., With her proper private-school upbringing in Virginia, penchant forescape, and genteel-sounding name, Temple St. Clair Carr is the kind ofwoman Henry James might have immortalized as a heroine., "St. Clair presents a quirkily luxurious scrapbook of the experiences that led her to jewelry design, beginning in her junior year abroad in Italy, when she hunted down a Florentine artisan to help her make a necklace for her mother." -- New York Times "An illuminating memoir." -- In Style "With her proper private-school upbringing in Virginia, penchant for escape, and genteel-sounding name, Temple St. Clair Carr is the kind of woman Henry James might have immortalized as a heroine." -- Elle "A Renaissance woman." -- Travel and Leisure
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2007-047128
Dewey Decimal
739.27092 B
Dewey Edition
22
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