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Paris, Capitale de la Perle / Paris, City of Pearls
Pouy, Leonard: Paris, Capitale de la Perle / Paris, City of Pearls. Exhibition: Paris, L'Ãcole des Arts Joailliers, 2024. 224 pages, illustrated in colour throughout. Hardback. 28 x 22cms. Accompanies the exhibition at the Ecole des Arts Joailliers, examining how pearls were used by Parisian jewellers and artists in the 1920s. 6 chapters look at pearls and their origins in the East, how the French conquered the pearl market, dealer Leonard Rosenthal, the pearl as a symbol of modernity, pearl mania in Paris, and the decline of the pearl trade in the second part of the 20th century. Text in French & English.
Accompanies the exhibition at the Ecole des Arts Joailliers, examining how pearls were used by Parisian jewellers and artists in the 1920s. 6 chapters look at pearls and their origins in the East, how the French conquered the pearl market, dealer Leonard Rosenthal, the pearl as a symbol of modernity, pearl mania in Paris, and the decline of the pearl trade in the second part of the 20th century. Text in French & English
