21st Century Jewellery Designers: An Inspired Style by Juliet Weir-De La Rochefoucauld

21st Century Jewellery Designers: An Inspired Style by Juliet Weir-De La Rochefoucauld, published by Antique Collectors' Club Ltd..

In her book, Weir-De La Rochefoucauld discusses the work of various designers from all over the world such as Stephen Webster from the UK, Luz Camino from Spain, Bhagat from India and Edmond Chin from China, to name a few.

She starts her book with a brief introduction on how modern technology has changed jewellery along with the new creative innovations that designers around the world are including in their works. 

Weir-De La Rochefoucauld follows up with a short chapter on JAR who is the foremost predecessor to 21st century jewellery design. Considering he also worked with some of the designers mentioned in the book later on, this chapter is much merited. 

The 20 chapters that follow are dedicated to a designer each: Kaoru Kay Akihara founder of Gimel from Japan, Walid Akkad from Lebanon, based in France, Lorenz Baumer from France, Bhagat from India, Sevan Bicakci from Turkey, Luz Camino from Spain, Wallace Chan from China, Edmond Chin founder of Etcetera from China, Lydia Courteille from France, Michele Della Valle from Italy, Patrice Fabre from France, James De Givenchy founder of Taffin from the United States, Vicente Garcia from Spain, Hemmerle from Germany, Anna Hu based in the United States, Michelle Ong from China, Susanne Syz from Switzerland, Nicholas Varney from the United States, Stephen Webster from the UK, & Dickson Yewn founder of Yewn Heritage from China. 

In the final two pages Weir-De La Rochefoucauld writes about how the internet has changed the face of jewellery marketing as well as creating a class of well-learned collectors through the creation of specialised jewellery blogs. 

References

Rochefoucauld, J. W.-D. L., 2013. 21st Century Jewellery Designers: An Inspired Style. Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club Ltd..