- Over 500 pages of art jewelry! - All pieces reproduced in original size - The most important contemporary art jewelry makers in one collection Jorunn Veiteberg has been wearing jewelry with a passion ever since she was a teenager. Covering nearly 50 years, her collection contains some 550 items, including work by 210 jewelry artists from 30 different countries, some by unknown craftspeople, some even mass-produced. Conventional forms live side by side with experimental objects, and political statements mingle with humorous asides. It is this collection that makes up The Jewellery Box. The book deals with how Veiteberg became a collector, why she focused on art jewelry, and what it can do for us. It's a personal story, but at the same time the volume is a contribution to the recent history of crafts, one that expands our understanding of jewelry.

A lift-the-flap book in the guise of an old-fashioned jewelry box enables curious young readers to uncover such keepsakes as a charm bracelet, a pair of opera glasses, a baseball card, and a box containing baby teeth

Young American Carina Rourke grew up in blissful innocence in the Middle East until at age fifteen she succumbed to her obsessive desire to search inside her mother's fobidden jewelry box. In so doing, she discovered a shocking family secret. On the heels of her discovery, she and her family pursued her father's dream of an exotic drive through the Middle East and Europe. This journey serves as a metaphor for the woman Carina became--a silent nomad searching for identity.

An intrepid journey to uncover the secret histories of precious stones. Victoria's search takes her to Egypt to find the lost emerald mines of Cleopatra, to the Australian opal fields with their underground towns, to Burma where she is spied on by the military junta, and to a secret location to meet the world's best diamond cutter. She reveals the wealth of human stories behind gemstones, and discovers, with the advent of synthetics, an industry on the brink of crisis.

Chloe had enjoyed a wonderful birthday party. She was looking at a jewellery box she had received as a present whilst sat in bed that night. The jewels on top of the jewellery box transformed into fairies. Now, with the help of her sister Aimee, she had to help them get back home to Fairyland.