Jewelry Journal - Japanese blog about Dutch Jewelry
"The Netherlands has long been a leader in the field of contemporary jewelery, with multiple museums holding jewelry collections and frequent contemporary jewelery exhibitions. Specialized galleries have existed from early on, education at universities and graduate schools has been enhanced, and wri...
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Bijoux Contemporains, une passion
Bijoux Contemporains, une passion, 2018, Authors: Chantal Bizot & Nadine Coleno, publisher: editions du regard ISBN-13 : 978-2841053636.
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Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective
Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective, 2013, author: Damian Skinner, Art Jewelry Forum, Publisher : Lark Crafts; First Edition (September 3, 2013) ISBN: 978-1454702771
What is contemporary jewelry? What makes it unique? What distinguishes these objects and practices from other visual art...
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Schmuck
Schmuck | Jewelry, 2020, Author: Petra Hölscher, Publisher: arnoldsche Art Publishers,ISBN 978-3-89790-585-6.
The Danner Rotunde, the jewelry space in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, was opened in 2004. Ambitious activities by the Danner Foundation and Die Neue Sammlung – The...
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Masters of new jewellery design
Masters of new jewellery design, 2019, author: Carlos Pastor, publisher: Hoaki books.
Masters of New Jewellery Design offers a bold and daring look at the intriguing and fascinating world of contemporary jewellery design through some of the field's most prominent international artists and emerging...
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Contro l’oggetto
Contro l’oggetto, Conversazioni sul design, 2020, Author: Emanuele Quinz
ISBN: 9788822903266
https://www.quodlibet.it/libro/9788822903266
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Gijs Bakker and Jewelry, monograph
2004, monograph, author: Ida van Zijl, design: Anthon Beeke Edited by: SM’s (Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch), International distribution: ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers, Stuttgart ISBN 3-89790-223-0 http://www.arnoldsche.com
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Gijs Bakker - Objects to Use, monograph
"Gijs Bakker - Objects to Use"
2000, Ida van Zijl 010 publishers, ISBN 90-6450-403-2
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The Gijs + Emmy Spectacle
Wednesday January 1st 2014
"The Gijs + Emmy Spectacle Fashion and Jewelry Design by Gijs Bakker and Emmy van Leersum, 1967-1972" Gijs Bakker and Emmy van Leersum are internationally recognized as pioneers in their field of modern jewellery design. They were the first to make minimal jewellery out of unorthodox materials, suc...
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EMMY+GIJS+ALDO
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition EMMY+GIJS+ALDO at the Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen (NL), edited by Jan Boelen, design: Geoffrey Brusatto
ISBN 987 90 6450 744 1 EMMY+GIJS+ALDO
More about the book, or to order it: 010Publishers.
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Black to White
Saturday February 18th 2017
"Black to White"
Publication on the occasion of the eponymous solo exhibition by Gijs Bakker at BorzoGallery (February 18 - 25, 2017) and Caroline Van Hoek (March 9 - April 29, 2017).
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Barbara Cartlidge and Electrum Gallery - A Passion for Jewellery
"Barbara Cartlidge and Electrum Gallery: A Passion for Jewellery"
This publication documents for the first time the extraordinary life of Barbara Cartlidge (b. 1922 in Berlin) who had fled Germany in 1938. Her creative talents, entrepreneurial spirit and political activism are illustrated through h...
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Beyond Bling - Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection
"Beyond Bling - Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection"
This important collection of contemporary jewelry, recently donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, reveals how studio jewelers have transformed the medium by confronting social issues and exploring new technologies an...
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Contemporary Jewellers: Interviews with European Artists
"Contemporary Jewellers: Interviews with European Artists"
This book offers an essential reference for anyone interested in contemporary European jewellery design. Through guided conversations with the major designers of today, Roberta Bernabei reveals the creative, conceptual and technical working...
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Jewellery & Design, Museo del Gioiello
"Jewellery & Design"
The catalogue, Jewellery & Design, was edited by Gijs Bakker following his curation of the Design exhibition on view at the new Museo del Gioiello - Vicenza (IT). The exhibition runs until December 31, 2016. Texts: Gijs Bakker Publisher: Marsilio
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Crafting a Collection - Fullercraft Museum Recent Acquisitions
"Crafting a Collection - Fullercraft Museum Recent Acquisitions"
This catalog is published by the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (US) to accompany the exhibition showing recent acquisitions that also includes work by Gijs Bakker. The exhibition can be seen from December 6, 2014 til July 12, 20...
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Gifts from America: 1948 - 2013. Modern and Contemporary Applied Arts from the Hermitage Museum Foundation (USA)
"Gifts from America: 1948 - 2013. Modern and Contemporary Applied Arts from the Hermitage Museum Foundation (USA)"
Exhibition catalogue to the exhibition that presents 74 works in diverse media – textile, metal, glass, ceramic and wood, made from 1948 to 2013, collected by Helen W. Drutt Eng...
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Le Labo des Héritiers
"Le Labo des Héritiers - Bakker / Scarpa / Van Severen / Vermeersch"
This catalog is published by Luster and Grand Hornu Images within the framework of the exhibition Le Labo des Héritiers, from September 21st 2014 till January 4th, 2015 in Grand Hornu. How do the children or grand...
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Strange Design
Monday December 1st 2014
"Strange Design - du design des objets au design des comportements"
Depuis quelques années ont fait leur apparition dans le monde du design des objets étranges : des objets dysfonctionnels, énigmatiques, compliqués. Ces objets relévent d’une posture que les...
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Multiple Exposures - Jewelry and Photography
Wednesday January 1st 2014
"Multiple Exposures - Jewelry and Photography"
The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are the first to examine the union of contemporary jewelry and the photographic image, demonstrating how each of these mediums is informed and enlarged by an engagement with the other. The works included, b...
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Triple Parade
Wednesday January 1st 2014
'Triple Parade', the publication accompanying the travelling exhibition presented by Ubi Gallery, Beijing. Both the exhibition and publication are based on the work of six jewellery artists from the Netherlands. A dialogue between different generations educated at the same Art School in Amsterdam;...
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Art Jewelry Forum's Best of Interviews
Wednesday January 1st 2014
AJF Best of Interviews includes conversations with Madeleine Albright, Gijs Bakker, Jamie Bennett, Lola Brooks, Helen Drutt, Iris Eichenberg, Clo Fleiss, Warwick Freeman, Matthew Friday & Kerianne Quick, Ursula Ilse-Neuman, Yevgeniya Kaganovitch, Sally Marsland, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Helena and L...
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Gijs Bakker 370 - 377
"Gijs Bakker 370 - 377" Catalogue of the solo exhibition of Gijs Bakker's new works presented by Caroline van Hoek at Design Miami/ Fair 2013. Edited by Caroline van Hoek. More about the exhibition: Click here.
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The Handbook of Design For Sustainability
Wednesday January 1st 2014
"I Am a User, Not a Consumer" Chapter by Gijs Bakker and Louise Schouwenberg A book edited by Stuart Walker and Jacques Giard Managing editor: Helen L. Walker Published by BLOOMSBURY IBSN: 978-0-85785-852-8 More about the book, or to order it: Bloomsbury
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POSTMODERNISM - Style and Subversion, 1970-1990
Saturday January 1st 2011
In 2011 the V&A published Postmodernism. The book was published to accompony the exhibition of the same name at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Gijs Bakker's "Pforzheim 1780" necklace from 1985 is featured in both the publication and the exhibition. This major exhibition was the first i...
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ON JEWELLERY - A COMPENDIUM of international contemporary art jewellery
On Jewellery is an indispensable handbook of international contemporary art jewellery. The text discusses movements, philisophical trends and jewellry’s role as a cultural object, spanning from the late 1960s to today, within the context of concurrent trends in art and society. On Jewellery is...
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Article Yii in Design Magazine China
Recently Beijing based "Design" magazine published an extensive article on Yii Design.
Download the article here (Chinese)
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Chi ha paura...? Who's afraid...?
Catalogue of the CHP overview exhibition at Vicenzaoro, curated by Alba Capellieri, design: Giampaolo Rizzo
2011, Mondadori Electa S.p.A, Milan ISBN 9788837086992
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Real? Catalogue
Real? Catalogue
Available at
Gallerie Ra www.galerie-ra.nl
Deux Poisons www.deuxpoissons.com
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Designers on Jewellery Twelve years of jewellery production by Chi ha paura...?
‘Chi ha paura…?’, the Netherlands based jewellery production brand with the unpronounceable name and the question mark, is celebrating its twelve-year anniversary. The Italian name means Who is afraid of…?, followed implicitly by contempora...
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A Designers Map
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Sense of Wonder, Chi ha Paura...?
2002, Liesbeth den Besten, Museum Het Kruithuis, ISBN-90-6538-2526
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Simply Droog,
2004, Renny Ramakers,
Droog,
ISBN 90-808574-1-6
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Less + more, Droog Design in context
2002, Renny Ramakers, 010 publishers, ISBN 90-6450-457-1
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Clay & Beyond, Cor Unum
2002, Paola Antonelli, Museum Het Kruithuis, ISBN 90-6538-262-3
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Jewels of mind and mentality
2000, Dutch jewelry 1950-2000, 010 publishers, ISBN 90-6450-399-0
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Droog & Dutch design
2000, Centraal Museum, ISBN 90-73285-69-0
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Droog Design / Spirit of the Nineties
1998, Renny Ramakers and Gijs Bakker, 010 publishers, ISBN 90-6450-301-X
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Holysport,
1998, Yvonne Brentjens
catalogue
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Droog Design 91-96
1997, Ida van Zijl, Centraal Museum, ISBN 90-73285-50X
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Jewelry of our time
1995, Helen Drutt and Peter Dormer, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0-500-01674-7
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Cor Unum Ceramics, Preview
1993, Renny Ramakers, ISBN 90-6538-102-3
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Holes Project
1993 Renny Ramakers, catalogue
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Solo voor een solist
1989, Gert Staal SDU Uitgeverij, ISBN 90-12-06247-0
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