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THE BEST JEWELRY AND WATCH COFFEE-TABLE BOOKS OF 2014
JCK Magazine
Dec 21 2014
By Victoria Gomelsky, Editor-in-Chief
Three weeks ago, I moved to a two-bedroom apartment in the same complex
I've lived in since February 2010: a groovy collection of terraced
duplexes known as Monroe Manor and located on Beachwood Drive, the
canyon street that leads straight to the Hollywood sign.
(Fun fact: Joey Tribbiani, the Friends character played by Matt
LeBlanc, lived in the complex in the popular sitcom's 2004 spinoff,
Joey.)
I finally unpacked my books this past weekend. As I stacked the
coffee-table tomes in tiny towers around my new living room, I stopped
to admire some of the new titles I received this year, a collection
of glossy odes to our industry. If you're still shopping for holiday
gifts for someone enamored with the jewelry and watch business--or
you're feeling generous enough to give them out as a gift with purchase
(classy move!)--you can't go wrong with one of these.
Sevan Bicakci
Not for nothing is the Turkish-Armenian jeweler Sevan Bicakci known
as the "problem solver of the Grand Bazaar." The technical mastery
displayed in his award-winning creations--including a collection of
carved gemstone rings blooming with tulips, crowded with cupolas, or
bearing the likenesses of his favorite sultans--is unparalleled. See
for yourself in this gorgeous $165 doorstop written by Vivienne Becker
and published by Assouline.
Loaded with brilliantly shot photographs of Bicakci's beloved Istanbul,
the book has plenty of narrative backbone to satisfy the readers
among you. I was hooked from the first sentence:
"His name means 'bladesmith,' and his story has become a legend of our
time: an epic saga of toil, tribulation, and triumph, of heartbreak
and heroism, of the passion, power, and glory of gold and gems; a tale
that might once have been told by a wandering troubadour roaming the
towns and villages of the mighty Ottoman Empire."
http://www.jckonline.com/blogs/chain/2014/12/21/best-jewelry-and-watch-coffee-table-books-2014
JCK Magazine
Dec 21 2014
By Victoria Gomelsky, Editor-in-Chief
Three weeks ago, I moved to a two-bedroom apartment in the same complex
I've lived in since February 2010: a groovy collection of terraced
duplexes known as Monroe Manor and located on Beachwood Drive, the
canyon street that leads straight to the Hollywood sign.
(Fun fact: Joey Tribbiani, the Friends character played by Matt
LeBlanc, lived in the complex in the popular sitcom's 2004 spinoff,
Joey.)
I finally unpacked my books this past weekend. As I stacked the
coffee-table tomes in tiny towers around my new living room, I stopped
to admire some of the new titles I received this year, a collection
of glossy odes to our industry. If you're still shopping for holiday
gifts for someone enamored with the jewelry and watch business--or
you're feeling generous enough to give them out as a gift with purchase
(classy move!)--you can't go wrong with one of these.
Sevan Bicakci
Not for nothing is the Turkish-Armenian jeweler Sevan Bicakci known
as the "problem solver of the Grand Bazaar." The technical mastery
displayed in his award-winning creations--including a collection of
carved gemstone rings blooming with tulips, crowded with cupolas, or
bearing the likenesses of his favorite sultans--is unparalleled. See
for yourself in this gorgeous $165 doorstop written by Vivienne Becker
and published by Assouline.
Loaded with brilliantly shot photographs of Bicakci's beloved Istanbul,
the book has plenty of narrative backbone to satisfy the readers
among you. I was hooked from the first sentence:
"His name means 'bladesmith,' and his story has become a legend of our
time: an epic saga of toil, tribulation, and triumph, of heartbreak
and heroism, of the passion, power, and glory of gold and gems; a tale
that might once have been told by a wandering troubadour roaming the
towns and villages of the mighty Ottoman Empire."
http://www.jckonline.com/blogs/chain/2014/12/21/best-jewelry-and-watch-coffee-table-books-2014