Cartier and America: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Exhibition Catalog - 2009 Second Printing Hardcover (NF) - Luxury Jewelry History & Art Collector's Edition

Chapman, Martin, et al. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco & DelMonico Books, 2009.

English, Second Printing, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 10 3/4" x 9 3/4", [5] 176 pp.

ISBN: 9783791350158

Light green cloth over board, stamped silver lettering to spine, very slight cocking to spine, otherwise, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block and endpapers. Very Good white pictorial dust jacket, featuring detail of 1923 Cartier London "Pendant brooch" to front panel, black-and-white 1958 photograph of Elizabeth Taylor wearing Cartier jewelry to back panel, silver lettering to front panel, black lettering to spine and interior flaps, minor wear to top edge, tips, head, and tail, some soiling to front panel, light shelf wear to back panel, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. [5] 176 pp., replete with black-and-white and full color images. Includes Foreword by John E. Buchanan, Jr., Preface by Bernard Fornas, essay and text by Martin Chapman, and Catalogue of the Exhibition. Includes Plates of "Courtly Diamonds: The Belle Epoque, 1899-1918," "Fashioning New Jewelry: Art Deco, 1918-1937," "The Return to Gold: Pre- and Postwar, 1935-1955," "Novelty and Tradition: 1950s-1980s," and "Mystery Clocks." Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco from December 19, 2009 to May 9, 2010. From inside dust jacket: "Author Martin Chapman offers an in-depth exploration of how Cartier conquered America: from its turn-of-the-century expansion of Paris's fashionable Rue de la Paix to its 1909 arrival on the other side of the Atlantic, from the sumptuous diamond jewelry of the Belle Epoque to the distinctive postwar pieces that have linked the Cartier name with celebrity, wealth, and exclusivity."