Impossible Collection of Jewelry: The 100 Most Important Jewels of the Twentieth Century FIRM SALE (Ultimate) - Hardcover

From Art Nouveau to the brink of the new millennium, fine jewelry historian Vivienne Becker selects the 100 bijoux that represent the milestones of jewelry design of the last century. This exclusive hand-bound volume dazzles with stunning images of the quintessence of Cartier, Van Cleef, David Webb, and Boivin, among other sparkling names. Presented in a linen clamshell case.

Vivienne Becker is an award-winning journalist, jewelry historian, and author of several books on the history of jewelry design. Based in London, she is a contributing editor to the Financial Times's How To Spend It magazine and writes regularly for the Saturday Telegraph magazine and for newspapers and magazines around the world. She organized and wrote the catalog for the first major exhibition of the jewelry of Rene Lalique, and curated Jewels of Fantasy, a traveling exhibition of twentieth-century costume jewelry. She also lectures and broadcasts regularly on her subject.