Schreiner: Masters of Twentieth-Century Costume Jewelry

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Schreiner is a luxurious book offering a first concise history of one of North The usa’s foremost designers of top of the range costume jewelry, a genre of jewelry popularized by Coco Chanel and today probably the most collectible.

Created in New York City by founder Henry Schreiner in 1932, the eponymous company flourished Right through the early 1940s. Right through the 1950s under the leadership of Henry’s daughter, the company’s bizarre color combinations, hand-made settings, and use of custom-made stones set them except their contemporaries, leaving in the back of a legacy for jewelry experts and admirers to study, covet, and collect to this day.

For thousands of collectors of Schreiner around the globe, Schreiner provides valuable insight into their collections from the family itself. With hundreds of breathtaking photographs, the breadth of the Schreiner oeuvre is explicated, from the somber years of the Great Depression through the upward thrust of the American ready-to-wear industry. Through the optimistic yet conforming 1950s, the youthful antiestablishment of the 1960s, and the feminist movement of the 1970s, the designs and materials of these pieces reflect the moods and mores of the decades in which they were made. And for the very serious Schreiner collector, the book explores common characteristics employed in the construction of Schreiner designs aiding collectors in the task of identifying unsigned Schreiner jewelry. This volume examines not only the cultural context and significance of Schreiner jewelry but also offers object-based analyses and archival documentation of quite a lot of Schreiner pieces.



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