Spectacular: Gems and Jewelry from the Merriweather Post Collection (Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens)

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The Merriweather Post collection offers an enthralling glimpse into one of the crucial remarkable, and intact, collections of jewelry ever amassed.

Spectacular immerses the reader in jewelry history and design, weaving in seminal moments in Post’s life as one of the crucial passionate and confident collectors of jewelry of the twentieth century. There are exquisite pieces by Van Cleef and Arpels; a large number of examples by Cartier; recent commissions from Harry Winston, George Headley, David Webb, and Fulco di Verdura, and historical pieces such as the Marie Louise Diadem, and the legendary earrings worn by Marie Antoinette at the eve of the French Revolution.

Spectacular provides a critical point of view on developments in changing jewelry styles in The us and Europe through one woman’s unique collection. Fascinating essays highlight special details of the gems and jewels, in addition to their infrequently scandalous history. Full of fabulous images and interesting facts this new volume will appeal to anybody who wants to know the story at the back of one of the vital most amazing jewels ever created.

Liana Paredes is director of Collections & chief curator at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens.
Martin D. Fuller is the founder and president of Martin Fuller Appraisals, LLC.
Michael Hall is the curator of ceramics of the Capelain Collection in Jersey, Channel Islands.
Jennifer Levy is a curatorial assistant at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens.
Jeffrey Post is the curator of the U.S. National Gem and Mineral Collection, and chairman of the Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution.
Dr. Wilfried Zeisler is the Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens’ curator of Russian and 19th-century Art.

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