The Jewels of Miriam Haskell Hardcover – December 30, 1999

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Wonderful book. seller very fast shipping,wrapping very good. Very happy with the book.

The best resource for vintage jewelry collectors, especially those of Miriam Haskell. Many color photos. Very well written, knowledgeable text.

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This book has good photos and a decent history of Miriam Haskell. For a true collector of Haskell Jewelry I would suggest Miriam Haskell Jewelry by Cathy Gordon and Sheila Pamfiloff. This book offers templates of jewelry findings and glass pearlized pieces used in Miriam Haskells jewelry which helps identify many of the unsigned pieces and the fakes or pieces made by other designers that produced jewelry for Haskell. Love this book.

Gorgeous photos! Focus is on the highest end pieces. If you are looking for great photos, this is the book for you. If you are looking clear concise writing/information about Miriam Haskell, this is not the book for you. This book could use some serious editing; in some cases the same sentance is reophased and repeated three times on a single page. No new info presented.

I had so much looked forward to reading this book that when it arrived I was disappointed. The text was rather disorganised in places and so it was hard to follow the points the author was making about the early life and various influences upon Miriam Haskell. Most of the book was focused on one designer and most of the pictures, although they are very nice pictures, came from the same few sources. I was hoping for a carefully researched piece which told me a lot more about Haskell and gave a much wider assortment of the pieces she designed. The book left you asking more questions than it answered and wanting more variety then it presented.

Miriam Haskell is recognized as an important American costume jewelry designer in this wonderful coffee table book. She had a penchant for the unusual with her ostentatious accessories. She was born in 1899 in Tell City, Indiana to immigrant parents (a Russian father and a Prussian mother).At the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, she moved to New York City with $500 in her pocket, opening a small boutique. Named Le Bijou de L'Heure, there she sold costume jewelry that she designed. In the early 1920's, Haskell advertised that "colored glass necklaces, one for each outfit, are considered a necessity this year."Not only was Haskell riding the wave of the Roaring Twenties, she was creating a wave of her own. The Twenties were the years that all of the fashion rules were broken. Haskell's unbounded creativity met with enormous popularity. The prices for her costume jewelry were much lower than the cost of precious metals and stones, so anyone could afford to look fashionable.The popularity of her costume jewelry continued, even after the stock market crash. Her sales did not drop significantly until 1931. Another difficulty Haskell encountered was the lack of material available for jewelry during WWII when glass from Bohemia and white metal was scarce.Haskell never registered her designs, although she began to sign her pieces in 1950. The Miriam Haskell trademark was not received until 1988, 64 years after she began designing. Because there were no marks to identify her work prior to 1950, it took a great deal of research on author Cera's part to verify pieces of costume jewelry as Haskell's. Cera relied upon advertisements in magazines and newspapers, and photographs of movie stars shown wearing jewelry attributed to Haskell.Haskell drew inspiration for her designs from many cultures - South America, China, Greece and the US southwest Indian designs. Her designs mimicked or consisted of any and all materials, including flotsam, stones, seeds, berries and beans.For the collector of costume jewelry, this book is a keeper.

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英語の部分はわかりませんが、写真が美しくまた、デザイン的にも十分な見応えのある本に仕上がっていると思います。これは手放したくない本の1冊です。