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| Courtesy of Antiques & Fine Arts Magazine |
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| This year’s Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show drew in tens of thousands of top-notch collectors, industry experts and eager buyers, breaking records in both attendance and sales made. With 180 exhibitors present, objects included fi ne art, furniture, antique and estate jewelry, sculpture, and contemporary art. |
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| Alastair Crawford, Crawford Contemporary |
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| Contemporary silver is the neglected cousin of the decorative art family. As collectors move increasingly towards the contemporary and away from the antique, virtually every other field within the industry has enjoyed a significant boom from contemporary art, to furniture, glass, jewelry, porcelain and sculpture. And yet today, contemporary silver is dangerously on the point of extinction. |
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| Lynn Morgan |
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| “Retro” jewelry can be an elusive concept. First coined in the 1970s by jewelry historian Francois Curiel, the term covers a dazzling array of styles spread across several historic eras. |
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| Anne-Marie Melster, Dr. Joern Guenther Rare Books |
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| The collecting field of illuminated manuscripts offers a possibility of intellectual pleasure with medieval books of all kinds. Manuscripts reflect both a never-ending desire for insight and a profound sense of awe inspired basically by the words from the book of books throughout the centuries. Understanding these manuscripts means to approach them from many different angles: studying and appreciating their age, their quality, their condition, their history, their provenance, analyzing them from the perspective of art history and religion, but mainly from the visual point of view since they are beautifully illuminated and handwritten. |
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