Vanity Affair Hardback
by David Linley, Diana Scarisbrick
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This elegant and richly illustrated volume, featuring a slipcase and gilded page edges, showcases a rare private collection of vanity cases and includes an exquisite array of luxury accessories from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century.
These vanity cases, carefully designed and mostly handmade, became covetable accessories with the advent of beauty products. The vanity case, the ultimate jeweled fashion accessory, was designed and made mostly in Paris by skilled designers and craftsmen who understood that the fashionable modern woman needed a practical solution for carrying lipstick, powder compact, cigarettes, lighter, theater tickets, keys, and other small paraphernalia.
Tiny, made of precious metals, including platinum and gold, with inlays of lacquer, gemstones, mother-of-pearl, jade, or enamel, these reticules took hundreds of hours of patient craftsmanship to complete.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, 200 Colour Photographs
- Publisher:Mondadori Electa
- Publication Date:03/09/2019
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- ISBN:9788891817945
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, 200 Colour Photographs
- Publisher:Mondadori Electa
- Publication Date:03/09/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9788891817945