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Stardust: The Work and Lifetime of Jeweler Extraordinaire Frédéric Zaavy that includes Gorgeous Pictures by John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler

Frédéric Zaavy and Rose Frédéric Zaavy and Rose Stardust Ebook Stardust Ebook Idea, images and manufacturing by John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler (Kubaba Bespoke Books). Taylor and Dubler have created images for over 300 books specializing in artistic endeavors, structure, jewelry, and antiquities.Textual content by French philosophical author Gilles HertzogPublished by Officina Libraria, Milan NEW YORK, Feb. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The primary monograph devoted to Parisian artist-jeweler Frédéric Zaavy, that includes dazzling photos by John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler, was launched in January 2021. Stardust: The Work and Lifetime of Jeweler Extraordinaire Frédéric Zaavy presents a portrait of an artist who strived to color the fantastic thing about the universe in treasured stones. Zaavy thought of himself inheritor to the legacy of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, gem vendor to Louis XIV, and was chosen because the unique jeweler for the twenty first century revival of Fabergé. Impressed by nature, quantum physics, philosophy, artwork, music, and literature, his poetic sensibility noticed him create daringly intricate items with a whole bunch or 1000’s of tiny gems that got here collectively like pointillist objets d’artwork. The photographers John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler, whose work has graced the pages of over 300 books specializing in artistic endeavors, structure, jewelry and antiquities, have created the mesmerising visible narrative for the monograph. That includes a textual content by acclaimed French author Gilles Hertzog, Stardust unveils the beautiful artistry and fluctuating fortunes of a grasp jeweler whose life was lower too brief. Evocatively framed by his imminent mortality, the guide gathers collectively accounts of Zaavy from his closest allies, each private {and professional}, with out eschewing the darkest moments of his adventurous and precarious profession. Taylor and Dubler’s visible narrative shines a lightweight on Zaavy’s work, weaving in photos of his inventive inspiration, atelier and home settings amongst photos which can be the results of a painstaking photographic course of to immortalise the jeweler’s creations. MEMORIES OF ZAAVY John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler, photographers and mates of Zaavy, have mentioned: “Stardust is the origin of all matter within the universe, together with the diamonds Frédéric ‘painted’ with and cherished a lot. He was fascinated that, along with their magnificence, diamonds resonated deep time. Nevertheless, he was undaunted by time and area, which he deemed to be inconsequential. He considered time in eons and knew his second right here would by no means be sufficient. Months earlier than he died, he mentioned to us, ‘I’m already useless,’ however then carried on as if he would reside perpetually! He typically acknowledged that he had been right here earlier than and would sometime return.” – from ‘Epilogue’, Stardust, p. 205. Floréal Ercilla, lead jeweler at Zaavy’s Parisian atelier: “Nowhere else had I ever had the identical freedom, and I discovered issues that had by no means been finished earlier than—by me or anyone else. The additional he went, the additional he allow us to go, too […] We have been 4 jewelers, a wax-model maker and 4 setters. We made distinctive items, loopy fantasies, ultra-complicated items that required a whole bunch of hours of labor or much more. That didn’t exist in any workshop anyplace on this planet. Zaavy was a pure dreamer; commerce didn’t depend. We made a cuff bracelet known as Les Nymphéas (water lilies), impressed by Monet. All the stones have been six-tenths, which could be very small, however due to the play of colour and lightweight you had the impression that they have been three millimeters. That’s a feat; that takes genius.” – from ‘The 5 Musketeers’, Stardust, p. 31. BIOGRAPHIES Frédéric Zaavy (b. 1964, Paris) was the third technology of a household of diamond retailers. After a traditional French training through which he studied at a number of artwork colleges together with the École des Arts Appliqués and the École des Beaux Arts, he determined to not enter the household enterprise and as an alternative, on the age of 20, started travelling the world. Time spent in East Africa, South East Asia, New York, Tel Aviv, Antwerp and Bangkok noticed Zaavy study and develop his commerce in treasured stones and diamonds. In 1994 he started creating one-of-a-kind jewelry items, working together with his companion Lisa Chen with whom he based the Daring Enterprise Co. In 2000, he established his first atelier and within the following years outlined new requirements of workmanship on this planet of jewelry making. Following a 2007 exhibition of his work at Phillips de Pury & Firm in New York, in 2008 he grew to become the unique jeweler for luxurious agency Fabergé permitting him to open a bigger atelier close to Place Vendôme. There have been 100 items within the model’s relaunch assortment, following which Zaavy continued to work on his personal items. In 2010, with the data that his life could be taken from most cancers, he started actively working with John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler to create Stardust. John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler are New York-based nonetheless life photographers, specialising in jewelry, structure, artistic endeavors and antiquities. Working with the world’s foremost collectors, museums and publishers, they’ve created images for over 300 books, comparable to Madeleine Albright: Learn My Pins: Tales From a Diplomat’s Jewel Field (2009); Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewellery (2003); Impressed Jewellery: From the Assortment of The Museum of Arts and Design, Faking It by Kenneth J. Lane, Judith Leiber: The Clever Purse, The Splendor of Ethnic Jewellery and A Token of Class: Cigarette Holders in Vogue. Presently, as Kubaba Bespoke Books, they’re producing restricted version books on estates and collections for personal purchasers around the globe. Gilles Hertzog is a French author, writer, and human rights activist who has labored alongside thinker Bernard-Henri Lévy for forty years. He’s the creator of Le Dernier Vénetien, Le Séjour des Dieux, Les Brigades de La Mer, and editor of the French literary evaluate La Régle du Jeu. Stardust: The Work and Lifetime of Jeweler Extraordinaire Frédéric ZaavyText by Gilles HertzogPhotography and Manufacturing by John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler (Kubaba Bespoke Books)Language: English and Simplified ChinesePublished by Officina Libraria, Milan Pages: 240 Launch: January 2021 Press ContactJonathan Marder + CompanyEve Hodgkinsoneve.hodgkinson@gsmltd.web Pictures accompanying this announcement can be found athttps://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/f7e57dfe-7926-4477-85bf-164d779c1ce5 https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/b5b24b47-2bb5-46bf-b725-fe23aa14e5bc

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