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Jeweler

Masters, Mavericks, and Visionaries of Modern Design

Stellene Volandes

Foreword by Carolina Herrera

Rizzoli, New York 2016, 256 pages,  Hardcover, 23 x 17 cm, ISBN  978-0-8478-4861-4

euro 120,00

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This stunning, glamorously designed survey highlights the artistry, expertise, and inspiration behind the work of today’s most fascinating and influential jewelry designers. Breaking out of the rarified world associated with fine jewelry is a set of contemporary designers who combine traditional skills with fresh vision, transforming artistic inspiration into wearable art. Boundless creativity and a sense of playfulness distinguish these jewelers from the pack, skills that result in pieces that are breathtakingly sophisticated and deeply rooted in each designer’s singular aesthetic. Focusing on seventeen modern masters from around the world, Jeweler reveals the unique ideas, intricate processes, and inspiration that go into their work. Curated by Stellene Volandes, editor-in-chief of Town & Country, Jeweler introduces readers to designers like the Hemmerles, a jewelry dynasty known for molding materials like copper and aluminum into one-of-a-kind collectibles; Wallace Chan, the Hong Kong wizard of stones whose patented techniques dazzle the mind as well as the wearer; Elena Votsi, an Athens jeweler who remade the Olympic medal, and whose bold metallic pieces are like wearable sculptures; and Lauren Adriana, a London wunderkind poised to become the master of her generation. Through Volandes’s vivid profiles and breathtaking images of each jeweler’s work, readers are immersed in the passion and craft that make each one a visionary. Jeweler is a stunning portrait of this fascinating niche of design, anointing the designers of today who are making the collectibles of the future.

17/12/22

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A Morning of Creative Collaboration at Town & Country On a crisp Tuesday morning in early October, Stellene Volandes, the editor in chief of Town & Country, gathered around a polished conference table on the 19th floor of Hearst Tower with three senior editors. The atmosphere buzzed with energy as they engaged in a lively discussion about potential cover lines for the upcoming philanthropy issue,…

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📷 #Repost Stellene Volandes @stellenevolandes: "Last night, after a performance of the thrilling new production of Cabaret @kitkatclubnyc starring @amazingeddieredmayne @_____gaylerankin______ @bebeneuwirthfans @ablanksonwood we sang Happy Birthday to the original Emcee @joelgnyc, who was there in the audience and celebrating his 92nd birthday. It was the kind of New York night you dream about with incredible New Yorkers everywhere you looked. (Yes that is John Kander.) Won’t ever forget it. @townandcountrymag @rickmiramontez1 #i❤️ny".

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Jewels That Made History: 101 Stones, Myths, and Legends - Stellene Volandes

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The history of the world--triumphs and tragedies, breakthroughs and breakups--through the iconic jewels that have inspired and influenced since the dawn of time.From ancient treasures to royal weddings, great heists to the red carpet, this book is a stunning, surprising, and glittering tour of historic turning points and gem-driven drama, delving into the passions and predilections of some of the world's most interesting and extraordinary people.Starting in the era of Cleopatra and continuing through to contemporary jewelry statements by Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, and Meghan Markle, Stellene Volandes tells the stories of how shiny stones and precious metals have determined empires, inspired expeditions and great crime, and been the communicator of status and ruin since ancient times. Each moment is placed in historic and relevant context, with Volandes drawing engaging parallels between Napoleon's gift to Marie Louise at the birth of their son and the modern push present or the insouciant story behind the brooch Jackie Kennedy famously wore to a 1962 State Dinner with the Shah of Iran. Illustrated with a mix of archival images and gorgeous photography of the jewels, this book is a beautiful, informative, and essential read for history lovers, fashion, celebrity, and pop-culture followers, as well as passionate jewel hounds.

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The history of the world--triumphs and tragedies, breakthroughs and breakups--through the iconic jewels that have inspired and influenced since the dawn of time.From ancient treasures to royal weddings, great heists to the red carpet, this book is a stunning, surprising, and glittering tour of historic turning points and gem-driven drama, delving into the passions and predilections of some of the world's most interesting and extraordinary people.Starting in the era of Cleopatra and continuing through to contemporary jewelry statements by Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, and Meghan Markle, Stellene Volandes tells the stories of how shiny stones and precious metals have determined empires, inspired expeditions and great crime, and been the communicator of status and ruin since ancient times. Each moment is placed in historic and relevant context, with Volandes drawing engaging parallels between Napoleon's gift to Marie Louise at the birth of their son and the modern push present or the insouciant story behind the brooch Jackie Kennedy famously wore to a 1962 State Dinner with the Shah of Iran. Illustrated with a mix of archival images and gorgeous photography of the jewels, this book is a beautiful, informative, and essential read for history lovers, fashion, celebrity, and pop-culture followers, as well as passionate jewel hounds.

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Jewels That Made Hstory

100 Stones, Myths & Legends

by Stellens Volandes

Rizzoli, New York 2020, 224 pages, 23 x 17 cm, Hardback, ISBN 9780847868544

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The history of the world--triumphs and tragedies, breakthroughs and breakups--through the iconic jewels that have inspired and influenced since the dawn of time.  From ancient treasures to royal weddings, great heists to the red carpet, this book is a stunning, surprising, and glittering tour of historic turning points and gem-driven drama, delving into the passions and predilections of some of the world's most interesting and extraordinary people.  Starting in the era of Cleopatra and continuing through to contemporary jewelry statements by Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, and Meghan Markle, Stellene Volandes tells the stories of how shiny stones and precious metals have determined empires, inspired expeditions and great crime, and been the communicator of status and ruin since ancient times. Each moment is placed in historic and relevant context, with Volandes drawing engaging parallels between Napoleon's gift to Marie Louise at the birth of their son and the modern push present or the insouciant story behind the brooch Jackie Kennedy famously wore to a 1962 State Dinner with the Shah of Iran. Illustrated with a mix of archival images and gorgeous photography of the jewels, this book is a beautiful, informative, and essential read for history lovers, fashion, celebrity, and pop-culture followers, as well as passionate jewel hounds.

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The history of the world--triumphs and tragedies, breakthroughs and breakups--through the iconic jewels that have inspired and influenced since the dawn of time.From ancient treasures to royal weddings, great heists to the red carpet, this book is a stunning, surprising, and glittering tour of historic turning points and gem-driven drama, delving into the passions and predilections of some of the world's most interesting and extraordinary people.Starting in the era of Cleopatra and continuing through to contemporary jewelry statements by Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, and Meghan Markle, Stellene Volandes tells the stories of how shiny stones and precious metals have determined empires, inspired expeditions and great crime, and been the communicator of status and ruin since ancient times. Each moment is placed in historic and relevant context, with Volandes drawing engaging parallels between Napoleon's gift to Marie Louise at the birth of their son and the modern push present or the insouciant story behind the brooch Jackie Kennedy famously wore to a 1962 State Dinner with the Shah of Iran. Illustrated with a mix of archival images and gorgeous photography of the jewels, this book is a beautiful, informative, and essential read for history lovers, fashion, celebrity, and pop-culture followers, as well as passionate jewel hounds.

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The history of the world--triumphs and tragedies, breakthroughs and breakups--through the iconic jewels that have inspired and influenced since the dawn of time.From ancient treasures to royal weddings, great heists to the red carpet, this book is a stunning, surprising, and glittering tour of historic turning points and gem-driven drama, delving into the passions and predilections of some of the world's most interesting and extraordinary people.Starting in the era of Cleopatra and continuing through to contemporary jewelry statements by Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, and Meghan Markle, Stellene Volandes tells the stories of how shiny stones and precious metals have determined empires, inspired expeditions and great crime, and been the communicator of status and ruin since ancient times. Each moment is placed in historic and relevant context, with Volandes drawing engaging parallels between Napoleon's gift to Marie Louise at the birth of their son and the modern push present or the insouciant story behind the brooch Jackie Kennedy famously wore to a 1962 State Dinner with the Shah of Iran. Illustrated with a mix of archival images and gorgeous photography of the jewels, this book is a beautiful, informative, and essential read for history lovers, fashion, celebrity, and pop-culture followers, as well as passionate jewel hounds.

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Blog Tour- NO NICE GIRL SWEARS by Alice-Leone Moats With An Excerpt & #Giveaway! @apollopublisher, @MouthDigitalPR @RockstarBkTours

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the NO NICE GIRL SWEARS by Alice-Leone Moats Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:

Title: NO NICE GIRL SWEARS: Notes on High Society, Social Graces, and Keeping Your Wits from a Jazz-Age Debutante

Author: Alice-Leone Moats foreword by Stellene Volandes

Pub. Date: April 7, 2020

Publisher: Apollo Publishers

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 184

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

No Nice Girl Swears is the original, trailblazing guide to the “new etiquette,” brimming with timeless advice on style, romance, and grace, and finally back in print 90 years after its original release. Forewords by today’s editor in chief of Town & Country and the editor in chief of Vogue from 1914–1952.

Heralded as the go-to guide for soon-to-be debutantes and ladies who’d recently made their debut, No Nice Girl Swears ushered in a “new etiquette” on its release in 1933, much to the shock—and delight—of the high-society crowd of jazz-age America. Today it is equal parts time capsule (how to dress for dinner on your transatlantic voyage) and timeless missive (how to ditch a date who’s had a few too many).

Worldly-wise socialite Alice-Leone Moats advises on everything from style and dating to travel and party throwing, and weeds through the dos and don’ts of weddings, weekend trips, and the workplace. Her wisdom, though steeped in the charm of her time, endures: treat others—and yourself—with respect, always put your best foot forward, and don’t throw a party without champagne. It’s just good manners.

This keepsake volume includes a new foreword from Stellene Volandes, the editor in chief of Town & Country, the original foreword from Edna Woolman Chase, Vogue’s editor in chief from 1914–1952, and a contextualizing preface. It encourages consideration of what etiquette rules we’d like instilled today, and shows how Moats helped usher in a world where women could speak—and act—freely.

"A book of modern etiquette for the modern debutante and sub deb, with an eye on her mother. Definitely keyed to the city and suburban communities, rather than the small town. Humor and commonsense combined in due proportion in answering such questions as: Shall I ask him in? May I call you up some time? What is the technique of being picked up? What should be done if my escort passes out on me? And so on. In addition, the author gives the latest usage in the matter of debutante parties, chaperonage (you'd be surprised!), engagements, weddings, clothes, week-end parties, and other contingencies. In good taste, and yet distinctly smart. The book itself is another experiment in colored stock—yellow this time—but since the books are to be sealed with cellophane wrappers, the prospective buyer wont know what she is getting until the purchase is made."

—Kirkus Review

“In spite of such reminiscent titles of 'Shall She Ask Him In?' and 'Never Speak To Strangers Unless They Speak to You,' these chapters contain serious advice—the pragmatism of it all cloaked in a flippant and humor-flecked style.”

—New York Times

Excerpt:

About Alice:

Alice-Leone Moats (1908–1989) was an American journalist and author who was born in Mexico to wealthy and socially prominent American parents. She attended convent schools in Mexico City, Rome and Paris, as well as the Brearley School in Manhattan and the Fermata School for Girls in Aiken, South Carolina.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

3/30/2020

Two Chicks on Books

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3/31/2020

BookHounds

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4/1/2020

Mythical Books

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4/2/2020

Twirling Book Princess

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4/3/2020

She Just Loves Books

Review

Week Two:

4/6/2020

Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers

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4/7/2020

What A Nerd Girl Says

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4/8/2020

Hurn Publications

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4/9/2020

Locks, Hooks and Books

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4/10/2020

The Phantom Paragrapher

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Week Three:

4/13/2020

Jena Brown Writes

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4/14/2020

Fire and Ice

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4/15/2020

The Book Junkie Reads . . .

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4/16/2020

Jaime's World

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4/17/2020

Simply Daniel Radcliffe

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Sarah Paulson talks to THR about interviewing Town & Country cover star Billie Lourd: "What was evident in the article is the very disparate ways in which she was raised...in a way that was exposed and also private. I didn't want to get in front of that or dictate what that was going to be. I wanted to follow her lead." Billie Lourd was the first to leave her own party Sunday night, but for good reason.With a 6 a.m. call time ticking toward her, Lourd did something that could come as a surprise considering that she hails from a demo dubbed "Young Hollywood," its members famous more for irresponsibility than manners. This 25-year-old ingenue, however, got out of her seat inside a private dining room at Hotel Bel-Air just after 9 p.m., thanked each of the 20 guests in attendance for celebrating her Town & Country cover, and rushed home in favor of a decent night's sleep before shooting American Horror Story: Cult. There was also this: Lourd joked about the intensity of Monday morning's scene, a revelation that had everyone in the room gasping or laughing, maybe both. No spoilers here, however. (You're welcome, Ryan Murphy.) To be fair, though, Lourd is less like her late-night-loving peers and more like a seen-it-all Hollywood veteran thanks to her real pedigree. Lourd's father, CAA power agent Bryan Lourd, would surely want her to be on time for work, while her mother, the late icon Carrie Fisher, would applaud the ease with which Lourd's provocative aside could captivate the room and leave them wanting more just as she bid adieu. "She's not curated. She's not studied. She's very authentic," Sarah Paulson told The Hollywood Reporter moments later when the room was empty save for her close friend, actor Pedro Pascal, and T&C Editor-in-Chief Stellene Volandes. (Other guests included celebrity florist Eric Buterbaugh, Irena Medavoy, Lesley M.M. Blume, Lourd's rep and longtime family friend Simon Halls, and power couples like Eric and Lisa Eisner, movie producer John Goldwyn and his hotelier partner Jeff Klein, interior designer Michael S. Smith and former ambassador James Costos.) "It's a testament to both of her parents — to the beautiful alchemy of the DNA that produced a person of real unique integrity." That person was on full display in the pages of T&C, Lourd's first major magazine cover and her first sit-down interview since the tragic passing of both her mother and grandmother, Debbie Reynolds, in December. Paulson handled the interview with care, and Lourd made sure to mention that fact when, before her fond and final farewell, she stood and addressed the room — voluntarily. "I was really nervous about doing my first press thing after my mom died, and honestly, I could not have asked for a better photo shoot and interview team," gushed Lourd, who was photographed by someone who understands legacy, Victor Demarchelier, the youngest son of iconic lensman Patrick. "It turned out better than I could've ever imagined. It was so comfortable and so me, and I really want to thank you for that so much. I've been dreading it." Paulson was preparing for it. (Volandes, too, who admitted that she had been trying to land Lourd for a cover for the better part of two years. "I don't remember the last time we had such an overwhelmingly positive, strong reaction to someone on the cover," she said. Mission accomplished.) "I didn't want to make her feel exposed in any other way than she wanted to be," said Emmy winner Paulson, in a black lace Elie Saab, who first met then-10-year-old Lourd in 2002. "What was evident in the article is the very disparate ways in which she was raised...in a way that was exposed and also private. I didn't want to get in front of that or dictate what that was going to be. I wanted to follow her lead." Lourd led in a conversation Paulson describes as "very easy." They met up at Bryan Lourd's house and sat barefoot on the sofa. "We talked for two hours. We kept asking ourselves, 'Should we run the tape back and delete that part of the conversation?' But we talked like people and we've known each other long enough that it was able to happen in a way that felt organic. She felt safe and I felt a natural protective feeling at the same time.... Billie, as you can see tonight, is humorous and emotionally available; she's such a beautiful amalgamation of both her mother and her father, and yet completely individual." And it's clear she's borrowed from them both, as she will admit. In T&C, Lourd said that her mother often scolded her if she strayed from authenticity. "Looking back and watching her interviews, I try to model what I do after her. She was so good at it," she told the mag. "She would get so annoyed with me if I ever did a fake interview. She’d say, 'Tell the real story.' " Here's a real story: After Fisher's death, Paulson says she couldn't shake a vicious tweet. "Someone had taken a picture of Billie and I hugging at a particular moment at a memorial service for her mother, and this person posted it and wrote that I had no business being there. They made some comment about me being a self- serving person, and then they tweeted it at me to let me know. And I thought, they don't have any idea that I've known Billie since she was really young. Her mother had been an enormous influence on my life and a stabilizing influence on my life." The lessons she learned run deep, she added. When they first met (after leaving a party, Paulson found herself driving on Coldwater Canyon next to Fisher's car when Fisher stuck her head out and invited her to a party, one that happened to be "Gore Vidal's make-out party" — more on that later), Paulson was struggling to find her footing in Hollywood. "I wasn't feeling seen as an actress at all, and the great thing about Carrie is that she just didn't care. She said, 'I see you as a person, and that other stuff has no value. What matters is that you will come over here and I will make you dinner and we can talk about real things that matter.' It would inform the way I would approach my work and my life as a person. You have to be a person before you're an actor." She added: "You can't do anything in your work if you've got nothing behind it, no life lived or thoughts had or principles held. She was sort of inviting me to experience life as a human being and not experience my personal value as being dictated by employment." Speaking of life experience, the one juicy anecdote that many of those at Sunday's dinner party, including Volandes and her T&C colleagues, wanted to know more about was the "Gore Vidal make-out party." "Our lips are sealed!" exclaimed Paulson and Lourd, almost in unison when queried by Volandes with the attention of the entire table. Aside from beauty sleep and a happy AHS boss, one of the major benefits of leaving early: one never risks saying too much.