Adored by kings and queens, a symbol of the manufacture of ancient civilizations and the counter-cultures of the young, a constant inspiration for artists, stylists and designers, the chain is one of the most loved jewellery items of material culture and the most worn in the history of costume.<\/p>\n
With an authoritative critical essay and large selection of photographs, this book – updated with expanded illustrative material – retraces the symbolic and aesthetic evolution of the chain from early history to modern day and its intersections with art, fashion, design, manufacture and new technologies.<\/p>\n
A fascinating and skillfully illustrated journey that shows how extraordinary jewellery, able to link the past to the future in the name of creativity, beauty and innovation, can be generated from such a simple functional element.<\/p>\n
Text in English and Italian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With an authoritative critical essay and large selection of photographs, this book – in an updated version, with expanded illustrative material – retraces the symbolic and aesthetic evolution of chain from early history to modern day and its intersections with art, fashion, design, manufacture and new technologies. Text in English and Italian.
Il mondo antico
\nSumeri, Egizi e il tesoro di Priamo:
\nle prime catene
\nAtene, Roma e Bisanzio:
\nle cinture e le catene per il corpo
\nDal rigore medievale
\nallo splendore rinascimentale
\nDai fasti del Barocco
\nalla Rivoluzione francese
\nL’Ottocento, la Rivoluzione
\nindustriale e la catena
\ntra artigianato e industria
\nIl Novecento: tra esprit nouveau
\ne street style
\nLa catena oggi tra arte, moda
\ne design
\nAppendice
\nCome si fa una catena:
\ntecniche e tecnologie
\nForme e tipologie
\nIl distretto vicentino
\nBibliografia
\nIndice dei nomi
\nThe ancient world
\nThe Sumerians, Egyptians and Priam’s
\ntreasure: the first chains
\nAthens, Rome and Byzantium: belts
\nand body chains
\nFrom Medieval rigour to
\nRenaissance splendour
\nFrom Baroque magnificence to the
\nFrench Revolution
\nThe 19th century, the Industrial
\nRevolution and chain among
\ncraftsmanship and industry
\nThe 20th century: among esprit
\nnouveau and street style
\nThe chain today among art, fashion
\nand design
\nAppendix
\nHow chain is made:
\ntecniques and technologies
\nShapes and types
\nThe Vicenza district
\nBibliography
\nIndex of names<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58364,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5565],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54502","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-jewellery-watches","7":"author-edited-by-alba-cappellieri","8":"publisher-silvana","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n