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Amber jewel balancing on black persons forehead, on blurred coloured pen scribbled cover of 'LithoMania, Design Lab #11', by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
Amber jewel balancing on black persons forehead, on blurred coloured pen scribbled cover of 'LithoMania, Design Lab #11', by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
Amber jewel balancing on black persons forehead, on blurred coloured pen scribbled cover of 'LithoMania, Design Lab #11', by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
Amber jewel balancing on black persons forehead, on blurred coloured pen scribbled cover of 'LithoMania, Design Lab #11', by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
Amber jewel balancing on black persons forehead, on blurred coloured pen scribbled cover of 'LithoMania, Design Lab #11', by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
Amber jewel balancing on black persons forehead, on blurred coloured pen scribbled cover of 'LithoMania, Design Lab #11', by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.

LithoMania

Design Lab #11

Edited by Claudia Banz
Edited by Ute Eitzenhöfer

$50.00

  • Students from one of the gemstone capitals in the world explore the complex meaning and impact of gemstones
  • A critical examination of today's gemstone trade
  • Includes a cultural history of gemstones by Wilhelm Lindemann, a curator and author of numerous books on the jewelry trade
Full Description

Rare stones have fascinated people for thousands of years. Their extraction is never free of conflict, but at the same time the trading and processing of stones brings together people from the most remote regions of the world. In Germany, the town of Idar-Oberstein is considered a hub for gemstone trading and processing, and students come from all over the world to study and work here with rare materials. In LithoMania, part of the Design Lab exhibition series at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin, students from the Idar-Oberstein campus of the Trier University of Applied Sciences explore the complex ambivalence of gemstones, going beyond their use in jewelry design through objects, drawings, photographs, and texts. Since 2019 the exhibition series Design Lab has invited various design labs, organizations, and students to present their current projects and to enter into a dialog with the Kunstgewerbemuseum collection.

Text in English and German.

About the Author

Claudia Banz is art historian and curator for design at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. Ute Eitzenhöfer trained as a goldsmith and then studied jewelry at Hochschule Pforzheim. She teaches at Trier University of Applied Sciences in Idar-Oberstein.

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Specifications
Publisher
Arnoldsche
ISBN
9783897906600
Published
18th Apr 2022
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
USA & Canada
Size
6.3 in x 9.45 in
Pages
272 Pages
Illustrations
103 color
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