Jewels by JAR (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

by Adrian Sassoon

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Called “the Fabergé of our time” by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewelry designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious stones resplendent with myriad shades of vibrant color and set in organic shapes: one brooch, for instance, features lifelike petals in subtly differentiated hues, made from a thousand pavé sapphires and amethysts. The New York Times has described his jewelry as “belligerent, stubborn, audacious, funny, contradictory,” while JAR himself has characterized his work as “somewhere...Read more
  • ISBN10 030019868X
  • ISBN13 9780300198683
  • Publish Date 15 November 2013
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 31 October 2024
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 144
  • Language English