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519 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm |
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The Alice and Louis Koch Collection of finger rings was originally collated by a jeweler from Frankfurt am Main, once described as the German 'Cartier and Fabergé'. By 1909 the collection comprised 1,722 rings from Antiquity to 1900. René Lalique, a contemporary of the time, was included, undoubtedly as a modernizer of the ring form. In the past twenty-five years the fourth generation of the family continued where Louis Koch and his wife Alice left off and expanded the collection to include rings from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This publication will present the complete collection of contemporary rings, now kept in the Swiss National Museum, Zurich. Nearly 600 rings by artist jewelers from around the world document how these miniature works of art have become modern sculptures showcasing new materials and techniques, daring designs and current themes. |
| Language |
Parallel text in English and German. |
| Contents |
The Alice and Louis Koch Collection Today -- Catalogue. Art Nouveau and Art Déco until 1945 -- The Emergence of Modernism 1900-1945 -- The Ring as an Art form after 1945 -- Osterreich/ Austria -- Belgien und die Niederlande/Belgium and the Netherlands -- Osteuropa/Eastern Europe -- Frankreich/France -- Deutschland/ Germany -- GroBbritannien/Great Britain -- Griechenland, ltalien und Israel/Greece, Italy and Israel -- Skandinavien/ Scandinavia -- Spanien und Portugal/Spain and Portugal -- Schweiz/Switzerland -- Afrika/ Africa -- Amerika/ America -- Asien/ Asia -- Australien und Neuseeland/ Australia and New Zealand -- Concise Biographies of Artist Jewellers. |
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Koch, Alice -- Art collections -- Catalogs.
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Koch, Louis, 1862-1930 -- Art collections -- Catalogs.
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Rings -- Private collections -- Switzerland -- Zurich -- Catalogs.
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Bontjes van Beek, Saskia, translator.
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Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, issuing body.
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| Added Title |
Rings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries |
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Ringe des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts : die Sammlung Alice und Louis Koch |
| ISBN |
9783897905160 (hardcover) |
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3897905167 (hardcover) |
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