Verdura: The life and work of a master jeweler
New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2002. Softcover. Maroon & color illus. wraps, French flaps, 224 pp., 182 color illus., 56 BW illus. VG. Item #145834
ISBN: 9780500287200
"The exquisite creations of Fulco di Verdura [1989-1978] stand out from the designs of other 20th century jewelers for their glorious exuberance and refined glamour. Born into the Sicilian nobility in 1898, Verdura showed a precocious talent for drawing and an insatiable curiosity about the natural world as well as art. He left his ancestral home in Palermo in the mid-1920s, moving to Paris where he hoped to be a painter, but his true vocation was revealed once he began designing jewelry for the discriminating customers of Chanel. Patricia Corbett documents Verdura's fascinating career, which took him from Paris to Los Angeles and eventually New York, where he was patronized by the rich and famous, who found his sophisticated and flamboyant neo-Baroque style perfectly complemented their tastes." (flap).
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