Exquisite jewelled minaudieres, necessaires and compacts from the
l8th to the 21st. centuries, photographed in great detail are set
within the social and fashion contexts of their creation, through
original archive photographs of the social leaders, the stars of
the stage and cinema and the fashion leaders who carried these
exquisite little accessories as indispensable adjuncts to their
glamorous lives. These triumphs of the jewellers' art were designed
to rest glittering on cocktail bars and grand dining tables. They
were tiny but they were also extremely useful as is revealed in the
form of their highly engineered interiors shown in detail here.
These little boxes were capable of carrying everything a woman
might need during the course of an evening which might start at the
Ritz and end at Bricktop's Jazz Club - everything from a lipstick,
to a powder compact, to a comb, even a cigarette and lighter hence
their generic name of 'necessaire'.
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