Tadema Gallery London. Jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s, Edition en anglais, Beatriz Chadour-Sampson

Tadema Gallery London. Jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s, Edition en anglais, Beatriz Chadour-Sampson

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Largeur24 cm

Hauteur30 cm

Épaisseur3.5 cm

LangueFrançais

AuteurBeatriz Chadour-SampsonetSonya Newell-Smith

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Tadema Gallery London. Jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s, Edition en anglais Tadema Gallery was founded in 1978 by Sonya and David Newell-Smith in London’s famed Camden Passage in Islington. They were successful photojournalists who ventured into the field of 20th century Abstract art and the decorative arts of the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1982 they had discovered a passion for artist-designed jewellery and sourced an eclectic choice of jewels for the Gallery by significant designers of the Revivalist, Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, Jugendstil, Art Deco and Modernist movements. Tadema Gallery exhibited at art and antiques fairs in London, New York and Tokyo, and clients included museums and private collectors from all over the world. With over 650 unique and well-archived jewels from the 1860s to 1960s the book celebrates forty years of the Gallery and the superb eye of its inspirational founders.

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Tadema Gallery was founded in 1978 by Sonya and David Newell-Smith in London’s famed Camden Passage in Islington. They were successful photojournalists who ventured into the field of 20th century Abstract art and the decorative arts of the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1982 they had discovered a passion for artist-designed jewellery and sourced an eclectic choice of jewels for the Gallery by significant designers of the Revivalist, Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, Jugendstil, Art Deco and Modernist movements. Tadema Gallery exhibited at art and antiques fairs in London, New York and Tokyo, and clients included museums and private collectors from all over the world. With over 650 unique and well-archived jewels from the 1860s to 1960s the book celebrates forty years of the Gallery and the superb eye of its inspirational founders.

Biographie de l’auteur·rice

Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, based in England, is an international jewellery historian, author and lecturer. Her jewellery interests range from the classical world to the present day and her extensive list of publications includes a doctoral thesis on the Italian goldsmith Antonio Gentili da Faenza (1980), the catalogue for the jewellery collection of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne (1985), and catalogues of the historical and contemporary rings in the Alice and Louis Koch Collection, Switzerland (1994 and 2019). She has been curator for 35 years of the latter collection and continues to advise the Swiss National Museum, Zurich, where it is held today. At the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Beatriz was consultant curator for the redesign of the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery, guest curator of the Pearls exhibition (2013-14), and regularly runs courses on jewellery history. Sonya Newell-Smith began her career as a freelance photojournalist working for the Sunday Telegraph and other newspapers and magazines. From 1978 to 2018 she ran Tadema Gallery in London, along with her late husband David Newell-Smith (1937-2017), formerly a photographer for the Observer newspaper. Today she continues to run the Gallery online and follows her passion for street photography which she shared over many decades with David.