Cooper-Hewitt Book Collection

Vintage hardback monograph on the life and work of Alexander Calder. By Gérard-Georges Lemaire, translated from the French by Sophie Hawkes, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in 199...

Vintage coffee table book featuring the work of artist, Pablo Picasso. By David Douglas Duncan, published in 1974. First edition, 300 pages. "Goodbye Picasso reveals the simplicit...

Life of a Mansion: The Story of Cooper Hewitt, by Heather Ewing. Smithsonian Design Museum Paperback – December 31, 2014. 1st Ed softcover. Life of a Mansion tells the story of the b...

"The Cartier of our time." —Christies. "Exquisitely refined creations. Rosenthal made jewellery modern but infused it with the timelessness of perfection." —Telegraph. "The Faberge´ of our time." —Diane von Furstenberg. Volume I showcases a selection of the jewels made since the shop's founding in 1978 up to "The Jewels of JAR - Paris" exhibition, held at Somerset House in London (November 2002 - January 2003.) Volume II presents a selection of works created between 2002 and up to JAR's exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2014. About JAR Since opening JAR in 1978, with the help of his Swiss friend Pierre Jeannet, Joel Arthur Rosenthal, has become one of the world's most sought after jewellery designers. A native New Yorker, Rosenthal moved to Paris after graduating from Harvard and has lived in the city for most of his adult life. He experimented in scriptwriting and then needlepoint, opening a shop where he experimented with unusually coloured yarns. It's clientele included designers from Herme`s and Valentino. Rosenthal was one day asked if he could design a mount for a gemstone, setting his career in a new direction. His signature includes setting gems in pave arrangements, so finely wrought as to be virtually invisible. Rosenthal uses...