
Archive - Jewellery books by period - post-Victorian - General
The following titles have been noted by Jewellery History Today. Titles with a reference to JHT at the end are reviewed in that issue. To read the review (members only), click here.
General
Schmuck und Glas Erfurt ´84.
Ministerium für Kultur der DDR, 1983.
93 pages, paperback, German.
Published in association with an exhibition at the Galerie am Fischmarkt - Haus zum Roten Ochsen, Erfurt.
Gioielli di artisti belgi dal 1900 al 1973.
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 1973, Italian.
90 pages, hardback, 25 x 32 cm.
Published in association with an exhibition at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan.
Bijoux en jeu.
Editions La Bibliothèque des Arts, 2014, €48.
236 pages, paperback, 22.5 x 22.7 cm, French.
ISBN: 978-2884531894
Jewellery in Finland.
Designmuseo, 2012, €74.
322 pages, hardback, 10.25 x 8.75 inches.
ISBN: 978-9529878789
Contemporary Jewellery.
Instituto Monsa de Ediciones, S.A., Limited Edition, 2012, €29.90.
192 pages, hardback, 25.5 x 21.5 cm.
ISBN: 978-8415223733
Alchemy: Contemporary Jewellery from Britain.
The British Council, 2007.
44 pages, paperback, 15.6 x 23 cm.
ISBN: 978-0863555831
Juwelen 1820-1920: Jewellery 1820-1920.
SDU Uitgeverij, The Hague, 1990, Dutch, English.
90 pages, paperback, 24.5 x 17.5 cm. ISBN 978-9061791133
Gas Bijoux.
Editions Assouline, France, 2010. €18.
ISBN 9782759405602.
1990s Jewellery: The Hans Schullin Collection.
Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, 2017, £28.
128 pages, hardback, 26 x 21 cm, English, German.
ISBN: 978-3897904842
Jewelry's Shining Stars.
Fine Points Publishing, 2013, $65.
120 pages, hardback, 9 x 12 inches.
ISBN: 978-0692019832
The Impossible Collection of Jewelry: The 100 Most Important Jewels of the Twentieth Century.
Assouline Publishing, 2013, $695.
144 pages, hardback, 19.6 x 16 x 3.2 inches. ISBN: 978-1614280583. JHT 18
Bijoux Contemporains, une Passion: Collection de Solange Thierry-de-Saint Rapt.
Du Regard, 2018, €49.
347 pages, paperback, 24.9 x 30 cm, French.
ISBN: 978-2841053636
Jewellery in the Age of Modernism 1918-1940.
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Material Culture of Art and Design), 2018, £74.
224 pages, hardback, 15.2 x 22.9 cm.
ISBN: 978-1501326790
Jewellery 1970-2015: Bollmann Collection.
Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2015, £25.
144 pages, hardback, 21.7 x 27.7 cm, English, German, French.
ISBN: 978-3897904286
Bijoux et Reliures - Artistes du XXe siècle.
La Bibliotheque des Arts, 1999.
208 pages, hardback, 28 x 22 cm, French.
ISBN: 978-2850472015
Eclat: The Masters of New Jewelry Design.
Promopress, 2014, £22.50.
256 pages, hardback, 29.5 x 19.6 cm.
ISBN: 978-8492810970
Diving for Starfish: The Jeweler, the Actress, the Heiress, and One of the World's Most Alluring Pieces of Jewelry.
St. Martin's Press, 2018, $26.99.
240 pages, hardback, 5.8 x 8.6 inches.
ISBN: 978-1250056207
Bling ! : Pierres précieuses et bijoux d'exception.
iPanema éditions, 2011.
100 pages, paperback, 23.7 x 18.2 cm, French.
ISBN: 978-2915397680
Bijoux delle feste: Seasonal Jewelry.
24 ORE Cultura, s.r.l, November, 2011. £15.95. ISBN 9788866480211. Bilingual edition. Illustrations of jewellery from the collections of Miriam Haskell, JJ and Pell.
Jewellery: From Art Nouveau to 3D Printing.
Skira Editore, 2018, £50.
264 pages, hardback, 24.1 x 27.9 cm.
ISBN: 978-8857237374
Gioielli di gusto. Racconti fantastici tra ornamenti golosi.
Nexo, 2015, €35.
176 pages, hardback, size, Italian.
ISBN: 978-8896451199
Catalogue of an exhibition of jewellery inspired by food at the Palazzo Morando, Milan.
Gioielli funzionali. Functional Jewellery.
Silvana Editoriale, 2017, €18.
88 pages, paperback, 15 x 21 cm, Italian, English.
ISBN: 978-8836638024
Il bijou italiano tra gli anni '50 e '60.
Corraini, 2015, €25.
144 pages, paperback, size, Italian, English.
ISBN: 978-8875705268
Il gioiello souvenir tra memoria e design/Souvenir jewellery from memory to design.
Marsilio, 2012, €25.
Paperback, 20.8 x 15.2 cm, Italian, English.
ISBN: 978-8831714747
Gioielli Per Milano.
Electa, 2011.
94 pages, paperback, 26.2 x 21 cm, Italian, English.
ISBN: 978-8837085155
Twentieth-Century Jewelry: From Art Nouveau to the Present.
Skira Editore, 2009, £45.
338 pages, hardback, 28.6 x 24.8 cm.
ISBN 978-8861305328
Bijoux du XXe siècle - De l’Art nouveau au design contemporain en Europe.
French language version, Skira, 2010. €39. ISBN 978-8861305922.
Gioielli del Novecento. Dall'Art Nouveau al design contemporaneo in Europa e negli Stati Uniti.
Italian language version, Skira, 2010, ISBN: 978-8861305915.
Il Gioiello nel Sistema Moda. Storia, Design, Produzione (Jewellery in the Fashion System. History, Design, Production).
Skira, 2017, €26.
129 pages, paperback, 17 x 21 cm, Italian.
ISBN: 978-8857235448
Forme implicite. Gioielli di Faïences/Unearthed shapes. Faiences jewels.
Allemandi, October, 2011. 25 euro.
ISBN 9788842220626.
I gioielli della fantasia. Ornamenti del XX secolo nell'arte, nel costume, nella moda.
Idea Books, Milan, 1991.
408 pages, paperback, 27 x 30 cm, Italian.
ISBN 978-8870171099.
SchmuckStücke. Der Impuls der Moderne in Europa.
Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1994.
189 pages, hardback, 27.2 x 24.2 cm, German.
ISBN 978-3781402942.
Tadema Gallery London: Jewellery from the 1860s to the 1960s.
Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2021, £75.00.
528 pages, hardback, 22 x 29 cm.
ISBN: 978-3897905986
Barbara Cartlidge and Electrum Gallery: A Passion for Jewellery.
Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2016, £40.
296 pages, hardback, 23.9 x 29.9 cm.
ISBN 978-3897904705. JHT 28
Jewellery Design and Development: From Concept to Object.
A&C Black Visual Arts, 2013, £24.
144 pages, paperback, 27.4 x 21.8 cm.
ISBN: 978-1408124970
Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery.
Skira Rizzoli, 2012. £35.
240 pages, hardback, 20.3 x 25.4 cm.
ISBN: 978-0847838141.
In Flux: American Jewelry and the Counterculture.
Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2020, £32.
184 pages, paperback, 17 x 25 cm.
ISBN: 978-3897905979. JHT 42
Vintage Jewellery.
Carlton Books Ltd, 2010.
224 pages, hardback, 27.7 x 21.7 cm.
ISBN: 978-1847325747
Vintage Jewellery. Sourcebook.
abbreviated version of above.
2013, 64 pages, paperback, £5.99.
ISBN: 978-1780974286
Gioiellieri D'Europa - Jewellers of Europe.
Egoista Publis Editrice, Milan, 1990.
210 pages, hardback, 29 x 25.5 cm, Italian, English.
Bijoux Frivoles des Années Trente.
Luce Wilquin, 1988.
156 pages, hardback, 27 x 24 cm, French.
ISBN: 978-2882530080
Contemporary Jewellery in Context: A Handshake Blueprint.
Arnoldsche, 2017, £28.
128 pages, hardback, 17.7 x 24.4 cm.
ISBN: 978-3897904989
From the Coolest Corner: Nordic Jewellery.
Arnoldsche, 2012, £35.
248 pages, hardback, 25.4 x 23.6 cm. English, Norwegian, Swedish. ISBN: 978-3897903739
Brilliance! Masterpieces from The American Jewelry Design Council.
Lark Books, 2008.
228 pages, paperback, 8.8 x 9 inches.
ISBN: 978-1600591570
Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry 1940-1960.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in association with Flammarion, 1996.
168 pages, hardback, 8.3 x 6.8 inches.
ISBN: 978-2080135933
Nsaio6. New Jewellery from Idar-Oberstein.
Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2016, €34.
368 pages, paperback, 17.5 x 24.5 cm.
ISBN: 978-3897904736
Published in association with an exhibition at the Stadtmuseum Simeonstif, Trier.
Svensk smyckekonst från jugend til postmodernism.
ICA, 1990.
163 pages, hardback, 23.5 x 20 cm, Swedish.
ISBN: 978-9153411901
To have and to hold: The Daalder Collection of Contemporary Jewellery.
Art Gallery of South Australia, 2018, A$34.95.
192 pages, paperback, 22.6 x 22.2 cm.
ISBN: 978-1921668357
Published in association with an exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia
Schmuck der Moderne, 1960-1998: Bestandskatalog der modernen Sammlung des Schmuckmuseums Pforzheim / Modern Jewellery, 1960-1998: Catalogue of the Modern Collection in the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim.
Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Germany, 1999.
224 pages, hardback, 23.5 x 29.2 cm.
ISBN: 978-3925369810
Narrative Jewelry: Tales from the Toolbox.
Schiffer, 2017, $60.
304 pages, hardback, 9 x 12 inches.
ISBN: 978-0764354144
Schmuckkunst Der Moderne Grossbritannien.
Landesmuseum Mainz, 1995.
76 pages, paperback, 15 x 10 cm, German.
ISBN: 978-3980360531.
Published in association with an exhibition at the Landesmuseum, Mainz
Jewellery in Israel: Multicultural Diversity 1948 to the present.
Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2013, £35.
224 pages, hardback, 29.5 x 22.9 cm.
ISBN: 978-3897903968
Joyas de artista. Del Modernismo a la Vanguardia.
Generalitat de Catalunya, 2010, €38. 320 pages, hardback, 9.75 x 7 inches, Catalan. ISBN: 978-8480432252.
Published to accompany an exhibition of Artists’ Jewellery at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Spain.
Italian Jewelry of the 20th Century.
Silvana, Milan, 2017, €45.
336 pages, hardback, 24.1 x 30.5 cm.
ISBN: 978-8836635078
Les Bijoux des années 50.
Les Editions de l'Amateur, 1987.
159 pages, hardback, 31 x 25 cm, French.
Jewelry Stories: Highlights from the Collection 1947-2019.
Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2021, £42.
168 pages, hardback, 19.5 x 24.5 cm.
ISBN: 978-3897906020
Jewellery Moves: Ornament for the 21st Century.
NMSE - Publishing Ltd, 1998.
108 pages, paperback, 21 x 19.8 cm.
ISBN: 978-1901663037
Published in association with an exhibition at the Royal Museum of Scotland
Not Too Precious.
Ruthin Craft Centre, 2015, £18.
76 pages, hardback, 21 x 26.5 cm.
ISBN: 978-1905865123
Published in association with an exhibition at the Ruthin Craft Centre.
As We like it.
Arnoldsche, 2008.
ISBN 9783897902916
Collect Contemporary Jewellery.
Thames & Hudson, 2012. £12.95. 208 pages, paperback, 14.5 x 21.5 cm. ISBN: 978-0500288559.
Zeitgenössischer Schmuck. Kunsthandwerk für Sammler.
Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, 2012. €19.90. German language version. ISBN: 978-3422071018.
Jewelry As Sculpture As Jewelry.
Didier Ltd, 2013.
56 pages, paperback, 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
Published in association with an exhibition in London.
Ohne Schmuck keine Heimat!? Fünf Goldschmiede aus München. Christiane Förster, Karl Fritsch, Therese Hilbert, Gerd Rothmann, Norman Weber.
Benediktbeuern, Bezirk Oberbayern, 2004
64 pages, paperback, 16.5 x 24 cm, German.
Modern Jewelry.
Crown Publishers, Inc, 1963.
256 pages, hardback, 10.6 x 9.6 inches
Granice Srebrnych Przestrzeni. Boundaries of Silver Spaces.
Galeria Sztuki w Legnicy, 2011, 30zł.
73 pages, paperback, Polish, English.
ISBN: 978-8362534111.
Published in association with an exhibition of post-war Polish jewellery from the collection of Prof. Irena Huml at the Gallery of Art in Legnica.
Inspired Jewellery: From the Museum of Arts and Design.
ACC Editions, 2009. £29.95.
ISBN 9781851495788
Jewelry of Ideas. The Susan Grant Lewin Collection.
176 pages, hardback, 17.8 x 22.9 cm.
ISBN: 978-3897905122
Published in association with an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York.
Out of This World! Jewelry in the Space Age.
Flint Mine Press, 2013, $35.
52 pages, paperback, 7.3 x 5.6 inches.
ISBN: 978-0982520840
Catalogue of an exhibition at the Forbes Gallery, New York.
Maker & Muse: Women and Early Twentieth Century Art Jewellery.
The Monacelli Press, 2015, $50.
256 pages, hardback, 5.9 x 8.3 inches.
ISBN: 978-1580934046. JHT 23
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago.
Bijoux de créateurs contemporains.
Thames & Hudson Ed. Francaise, 2012.
240 pages, hardback, 24.5 x 17.5 cm, French.
ISBN: 978-2878113891
Christie's Twentieth-Century Jewelry.
Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002.
192 pages, hardback, 10.2 x 10.3 inches.
ISBN: 978-0823006403
Cross Currents. Jewellery from Australia, Britain, Germany, Holland .
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Power House Museum, Sydney, 1984.
120 pages, paperback, 17.5 m x 24 cm.
ISBN: 0730502058
Art Meets Jewellery: 20 Years of Galerie Slavik, Vienna.
Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2011, £35.
ISBN: 978-3897903326.
One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today .
Harry N Abrams Inc, 1994.
224 pages, hardback, 9.2 x 11.5 inches .
ISBN: 978-0810931985
Untamed Encounters: Contemporary Jewelry from Extraordinary Gemstones.
Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2014, £60.
248 pages, hardback, 23.2 x 33.7 cm.
ISBN: 978-0500970638
Gioielli di design.
Logos, 2011. €34.95. 600 pages, hardback, 28 x 27.8 cm, Italian. ISBN: 978-8857602363.
Celebrating Jewellery: Exceptional Jewels of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Antique Collectors' Club Ltd, 2012, £75. 324 pages, hardback, 27.5 x 32.5 cm. ISBN: 978-1851496167.
Célébration du bijou : Bijoux exceptionnels des XIXe et XXe siècles
French language version, Editions La Bibliothèque des Arts, 2012, €85, ISBN: 978-2884531757
Boucheron, The Secret Archives.
Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, 2011, £49.95. ISBN 978-1851496679. JHT 13
French language version, Editions SW Télémaque, 2009, ISBN 978-2753301009
Beyond Bling: Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection.
Prestel Publishing, 2016, $45.
232 pages, hardback, 8.8 x 10.2 inches.
ISBN: 978-3791355627
Published in association with an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum.
Gioielli d’Autore. Padova e la scuola dell’oro.
Umberto Allemandi, 2008. €45. 342 pages, paperback, 33.2 x 23.6 cm, Italian. ISBN: 978-8842215530.
Catalogue of an exhibition in Padua.
Art to Wear. Jewellery By Post-War Painters and Sculptors.
Didier Ltd, 2012. £30. 80 pages.
Catalogue of 98 pieces of post-war artists’ jewellery, with historical introduction.
Jablonec ’68.
Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2018, €38.
206 pages, hardback, 24 x 24 cm.
ISBN: 978-3897905191
Published in association with an exhibition at Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Munich.
20th-Century Jewelry & the Icons of Style.
Thames & Hudson, 2013, £35.
272 pages, hardback, 33 x 25 cm.
ISBN: 978-0500516874
20th Century Jewelry: The Complete Sourcebook.
Thames & Hudson, 2002, £24.95.
144 pages, hardback, 32.2 x 24.8 cm. ISBN 978-0500510834.
Zero Karat: The Donna Schneier Gift to the American Craft Museum.
American Craft Museum, 2002. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1890385088.
Published in association with an exhibition at the American Craft Museum, New York
Jewelry By Architects: From the Collection of Cleto Munari.
Rizzoli, 1988.
128 pages, hardback, 8.5 x 11 inches.
ISBN: 978-0847807987
Unique by Design – Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014, $24.95.
135 pages, paperback, 9.75 x 9.25 inches.
ISBN: 978-0300208764
Published in association with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Bijoux des années 1940-1950.
Editions du Regard, Paris, 1987.
327 pages, hardback, 32.5 x 25 cm, French.
ISBN: 978-2903370312
The Sourcebook of Contemporary Jewelry Design.
Harper Design International, 2012, £40.
600 pages, hardback, 23.8 x 29.3 cm.
ISBN: 978-0062105035
Form & Function. American Modernist Jewelry, 1940-1970.
Schiffer Publishing, 2008, $69.99.
256 pages, hardback, 8.5 x 10.9 inches.
ISBN: 978-0764329760
Simply Danish: Silver Jewellery - 20th Century.
Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2018, €44.
232 pages, hardback, 24 × 28 cm, English, German.
ISBN: 978-3897905269
Published in association with an exhibition at the Bröhan-Museum Berlin.
Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective.
Lark Crafts, 2013, £27.99.
264 pages, hardback, 22.9 x 27.9 cm.
ISBN: 978-1454702771
Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection.
Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, 2007. $30. 528 pages, hardback, 12.3 x 9.8 inches. ISBN: 978-3897902732.
Smycken: Fran det kejserliga S:t Petersburg : ur samlingar i Finland och Sverige.
Hagelstam, 1996.
. 191 pages, hardback, 26.9 x 22.9 cm. ISBN 978-9525125061.
Jewels from Imperial St Petersburg.
Liki Rossii/Unicorn Press, 2012. £49.99. 296 pages, hardback, 25 x 30 cm. ISBN 978-1906509248. JHT 17
Jewelry in Europe and America: New Times, New Thinking.
Thames & Hudson, 1996.
144 pages, paperback, 8 x 9.5 inches.
ISBN: 978-0500278796
Contemporary Jewelry: A critical Assessment, 1945-75.
Studio Vista, 1976.
208 pages, hardback, 23.2 x 16.7 cm.
ISBN: 978-0289706701
Jewellery Matters.
Rijksmuseum/Nai010, 2017, €39.95.
640 pages, hardback, 14 x 19.5 cm.
ISBN: 978-9462083752
Exceptional Jewellery.
Noovo. Pepin Press, April, 2012. £22.99. ISBN 9789054961710.
Steampunk Jewellery.
Graffito Books Ltd, 2014, £16.99.
160 pages, paperback, 24.9 x 19 cm.
ISBN: 978-1909051041
Illuminata: Three Centuries of Fine Jewellery 1720-2020.
Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Press, 2020, 268 yuan/HK$305.
215 pages, hardback, 26 x 19 cm.
ISBN: 978-7547924228
La Bijouterie Parisienne - 1860-1914 - du Second Empire a la Premiere Guerre Mondiale.
L'Harmattan, 2004, €32.
398 pages, paperback, 24 x 15.8 cm, French.
ISBN 978-2747569798.
Contemporary Swedish Art Jewellery.
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing AB, 2013, £42.50.
224 pages, hardback, 23.8 x 22 cm.
ISBN: 978-9187543012
21st-Century Jewellery Designers: An Inspired Style.
Antique Collectors' Club, 2013, £50.
360 pages, hardback, 23.5 x 27.9 cm.
ISBN: 978-1851497294.
Haute joaillerie : Bijoux exceptionnels du XXIe siècle
French language version, Editions La Bibliothèque des Arts, 2013, €85, ISBN: 978-2884531801.
Münchner Goldschmiede. Schmuck und Gerät der Gegenwart.
Klinkhardt und Biermann, Munich, 1993.
270 pages, hardback, German.
ISBN: 978-3781403475
Schmuck in Deutschland und Osterreich, 1895-1914: Symbolismus, Jugendstil, Neohistorismus.
Prestel, 1977.
430 pages, hardback, 23 x 24 cm, German.
ISBN: 978-3791303857
Mode und Modeschmuck 1920 - 1970 / Fashion and Jewelry 1920-1970.
Arnoldsche, 1999.
272 pages, hardback, 9.2 x 11.8 inches.
ISBN: 978-3925369230
Body Jewellery.
Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1973.
227 pages, hardback, 28.0 x 22.0 cms.
Paperback, 1974, ISBN: 978-0273007234
Gems from the East and West: The Doris Duke Jewelry Collection.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , 2003.
120 pages, paperback, 11.5 x 9.1 inches.
ISBN: 978-0972558815.
Published to accompany an exhibition at Rough Point of the entire collection of mainly 20th-century jewellery of Doris Duke.
