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Cora Sheibani's jewels are the product of a highly active
imagination. Her creations are designed to surprise and delight -
miniature cakes and jellies that look good enough to eat; rings and
bracelets that glow in the dark; shimmering clouds with diamond
raindrops; jewels that stare back at you, and plant pots billowing
with vegetation. Her design handwriting is predicated on a bold
sense of form and colour, allied with a playful, contradictory
mindset. Her design philosophy is to make jewellery she herself
wants to wear and in doing so, she trusts that her customers in
turn will appreciate and value her personal aesthetic. Cora
Sheibani - Jewels is published to mark the 20th anniversary of Cora
Sheibani's eponymous brand.
"The life of Andrew Grima, the Italian-Anglo jeweler beloved of the
royals, is celebrated in a stunning new book." - People "a detailed
and lavishly illustrated portrait" - Rapaport magazine The father
of modern jewellery, the golden engineer, the King of Bling...
These are just some of the epithets assigned to Andrew Grima, the
British genius who marched in the vanguard of a 1960s London-based
movement that created a new vocabulary for jewellery design.
Jeweller to the royals and the jet set, to the rule makers and the
tastemakers, Grima was a feted celebrity who appeared on talk
shows, in Pathé newsreels and in advertisements for Canada Dry. He
won The Queen's Award for Export, The Duke of Edinburgh's Prize for
Elegant Design and a record 11 De Beers Diamonds International
Awards (the 'Oscars' of the jewellery world). This book illuminates
the career of a man who participated in a golden age of British
creativity. It contains a dazzling array of never-before-seen
sketches, designs and photographs from the Grima archives and
includes a sparkling preface from the doyen of jewellery experts,
TV celebrity Geoffrey Munn. A must-buy publication for art and
jewellery lovers alike. “Since discovering the work of Andrew
Grima, I have not only become a collector of his exquisite
creations, I have also become one of the many to be inspired by his
unique and inimitable designs. Each piece of jewellery, each watch,
each object is a sculpture.†- Marc Jacobs  "His work, his
style, is completely identifiable, it’s unique.†- James Taffin
de Givenchy
Written by a member of the last generation of British Colonial
Service Officers in Africa, the book seeks to place both colonial
rulers and their African successors in the context of history and
the circumstances of their time, viewing their achievements and
failures critically but not unsympathetically and comparing
colonial society with that of the independent African country that
Northern Rhodesia has become. Colonialism is viewed at the day to
day level of the administration of a rural district by four
officers and a handful of African district messengers, who worked
together without even a telephone to assist them. With a wealth of
detail that can only come from experience, Granta (TM)s work makes
an important contribution to the understanding of a time, place,
period and practices that are only now being considered in a
balanced way.
Written by a member of the last generation of British Colonial
Service Officers in Africa, the book seeks to place both colonial
rulers and their African successors in the context of history and
the circumstances of their time, viewing their achievements and
failures critically but not unsympathetically and comparing
colonial society with that of the independent African country that
Northern Rhodesia has become. Colonialism is viewed at the day to
day level of the administration of a rural district by four
officers and a handful of African district messengers, who worked
together without even a telephone to assist them. With a wealth of
detail that can only come from experience, Grant's work makes an
important contribution to the understanding of a time, place,
period and practices that are only now being considered in a
balanced way.
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