Faberge: The Twilight Years
Drawings and Objects from the Workshop of Henrik Wigstroem
$132.98
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2023
Summary
Faberge: The Twilight Years introduces an incredible album of rare drawings from Carl Faberge’s leading workshop in St Petersburg that have come to light in the National Archive of Finland by pure chance. The album, stored unnoticed in the archive for almost a century, contains beautifully watercoloured drawings of objects produced by Faberge during the period 1914 - 1917, among these a whole array of elegant cigarette cases, table clocks and enchanting flower studies.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911397670 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1911397672 |
| Author: | Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm |
| Publisher: | Unicorn Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Unicorn Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 1.39kg |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 297mm |
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Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm
Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm, great granddaughter of the St Petersburg jeweller Alexander Tillander, a supplier to the Imperial Russian Court, conceived and edited Faberge: The Twilight Years. Ulla has been researching the oeuvre of Russian jewellers for many years and her doctoral dissertation was on the labyrinthine and intriguing award system of Imperial Russia. Her work takes her around the world, lecturing, consulting for art exhibitions, and writing in exhibition catalogues. She has published several books on her specialty, the art of the jewellers of Imperial St Petersburg.
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