The Sourcebook of Contemporary Jewelry Design

The Sourcebook of Contemporary Jewelry Design is a cutting-edge design anthology featuring more than 300 established and emerging designers around the world. Included in this volume are the world's most notable contemporary jewellery designers, master jewellers and up-and-coming designers alike, showcasing their work in over 1300 graphic full-colour photographs and illustrations. Also included is a visual index for quick reference and designers' contact information. This impressive design book is the first large-scale book of its kind to showcase a complete and diverse range of contemporary jewellery designers notable for their work in in a broad and eclectic field of design. From coral-like Lucite necklaces to intricately crocheted earrings, mineral dust rings to ceramic hair pieces, wooden pendants to leather pins, this lushly illustrated, information-rich book is an invaluable resource that consumers, designers, design students, fashion retailers, merchandisers, and stylists will turn to again and again.