Schepps, Seaman: A Century of New Yor
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It's unusual to think of a jewelry designer as revolutionary. Generally, the great jewelers have reflected rather than challenged the taste of their times. Seaman Schepps, the man sometimes called 'America's court jeweler' was different. An immigrant's son from New York's Lower East Side, he rose to prominence in the 1930s by creating designs that defied all previous ideas of what jewelry should look like. Witty - even outrageous - and wildly flattering, Schepps's jewelry stood for style more than wealth: featured on the covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Look and other magazines, it appealed to an enormous range of clients, from the Duchess of Windsor to Andy Warhol. Nor was his influence limited to his contemporaries and clients. Many designer peers also acknowledged his mastery; and today - more than twenty years after Seaman Schepps's death - his work has inspired a legion of new collectors who seek out vintage Schepps pieces at Sotheby's or Christie's auctions, and at estate jewelers the world over. From a small new shop on New York's Madison Avenue, which Schepps opened in 1926, he made an almost immediate sensation with his 'barbaric' bracelets, cobochon cluster rings and chu
Author: a Vaill
Format: Hardback, 204 pages
Published: 2004, Vendome Press, United States
Genre: Individual Artists / Art Monographs
It's unusual to think of a jewelry designer as revolutionary. Generally, the great jewelers have reflected rather than challenged the taste of their times. Seaman Schepps, the man sometimes called 'America's court jeweler' was different. An immigrant's son from New York's Lower East Side, he rose to prominence in the 1930s by creating designs that defied all previous ideas of what jewelry should look like. Witty - even outrageous - and wildly flattering, Schepps's jewelry stood for style more than wealth: featured on the covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Look and other magazines, it appealed to an enormous range of clients, from the Duchess of Windsor to Andy Warhol. Nor was his influence limited to his contemporaries and clients. Many designer peers also acknowledged his mastery; and today - more than twenty years after Seaman Schepps's death - his work has inspired a legion of new collectors who seek out vintage Schepps pieces at Sotheby's or Christie's auctions, and at estate jewelers the world over. From a small new shop on New York's Madison Avenue, which Schepps opened in 1926, he made an almost immediate sensation with his 'barbaric' bracelets, cobochon cluster rings and chu