Paris, City of Pearls : A Historical Heyday for Jewelry - LEONARD POUY

Paris, City of Pearls

A Historical Heyday for Jewelry

By: LEONARD POUY

Hardcover | 3 January 2024

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If Paul Levi and Jean-Paul Poirot are to be believed, rue Lafayette, which has been home to the majority of Parisian gem dealers since the 19th century, is thought to have been home to almost 300 fine pearl merchants between the two world wars, between numbers 1 and 100. The sheer size of this number is striking when compared with the current state of the fine pearl market, both within the capital and worldwide. As well as unravelling the final mysteries surrounding this biomineral, the main aim is to show the extent to which pearls inspired Parisian jewellers and artists of all kinds, both young and old. They all seem to have been driven by the same pearlomania, whatever their medium, from opera to cinema, painting, photography, posters or illustrated books, to the point of making the pearl one of the symbolic forms of the Roaring Twenties. Text in English and French SELLING POINTS: . Accompanies the exhibition Paris, Pearl Capital from 7 November 2024 200 colour illustrations

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