Solange: Jewellery for Chromantics

by Clare Phillips (Foreword by), SOLANGE AZAGURY-PARTRIDGE (Text by), Ruth Peltason (Text by)

Overview

London-based jewelry designer Solange Azagury-Partridge’s work has transformed the jewelry industry over the past thirty-five years and left an indelible mark on the art of adornment itself. Her first book is a captivating exploration of the enchanting world she has crafted through her fantasy-filled creations.

Witty, urbane, and edgy, Azagury-Partridge’s jewels are known for their explosive design and provocative themes and characterized by bold and unconventional use of color and material. Her work has gained a dedicated following in the fashion and jewelry industries for its innovation and avant-garde designs that set her apart from more traditional jewelry houses.

Celebrities and tastemakers such as Julianne Moore, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Beyoncé beat a path to Solange’s London boutique, drawn to her iconoclastic, pop-art influenced jewels, playfully irreverent yet subtly layered with cultural and historical meaning and redolent of talismanic traditions. Her expressive rings, alive with color, remain her best-known and most innovative creations. Her love of language and meaning became part of the creative process, informing the names of her collections: Stoned, Chromance, Regalia, Poptails, Scribbles, Sentimentals, Hotlips, and Metamorphosis. Her first book offers a rainbow array of the styles and collections that this singular jeweler has brought to life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847833023
Publisher:	Rizzoli
Publication date:	10/15/2024
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	9.81(w) x 11.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

In 1987 Solange Azagury-Partridge designed her first jewel, her own engagement ring. Encouraged by friends, she began producing one-of-a-kind creations and, very quickly, a business was born. Clare Phillips is curator in the Department of Decorative Art and Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Ruth Peltason is an author, editor, and jewelry historian. Her books include Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry, which made the New York Times Bestseller List, and The Art of David Webb, among others.

Editorial Reviews

"With a very au courant neon green jacket, Solange: Jewellery for Chromantics demands your attention at first sight. And because the 272 pages that follow are just as captivating, this is one book that you can—and should—judge by its cover. The Rizzoli title celebrates the 35-year career of British jewelry designer Solange Azagury-Partridge, who has made a name for herself as one of the go-to jewelers for avant-garde, pop art-influenced pieces. Everyone from Beyoncé and Sarah Jessica Parker to Thandiwe Newton and Julianne Moore has worn her edgy creations, which are, above all else, inspired by joy.
The themed chapters that follow are a true feast for the eyes, featuring dazzling gemstone-filled photos along with insightful text by the designer herself. It’s a book that you’ll pour over time and again for inspiration—and you’ll want to pre-order it now, along with 9 more of the best jewelry books being published this fall. In the first book about her work, out on October 15, Azagury-Partridge treats longtime fans—as well as those who are unfamiliar with her designs—to a deliciously extravagant curation of her most whimsical pieces. Following a foreword by Victoria and Albert Museum curator Clare Phillips, jewelry historian Ruth Peltason explains how words like “synesthesia,” “veridian,” and “chlorophyll” tie into Azagury-Partridge’s fantasy-fueled, emotionally-driven collections (the latter refers to her emerald, ruby, diamond and lacquer Chlorophyll necklace, which is set in blackened 18-karat white gold and is pictured on the cover of the book)." — ONLY NATURAL DIAMONDS

"Over the past thirty-five years London-based jewelry designer Solange Azagury-Partridge has transformed the jewelry industry with her innovative and avant-garde designs which have set her apart from the more traditional jewelry houses. Her first book, Solange: Jewellery for Chromantics ($95), offers an exploration into the enchanting world she crafts through her fantasy-filled creations." — CURATED TEXAN

"Solange Azagury-Partridge has created her own vocabulary of design. Innovative and often avant-garde, she is a groundbreaking designer, and her witty and edgy aesthetic has set her apart from her peers and gained her a dedicated following in the fashion and jewelry industries. With text by Azagury-Partridge and jewelry historian and author Ruth Peltason and a foreword by noted jewelry author and Victoria and Albert Museum curator Clare Phillips, Azagury-Partridge’s first book reveals her captivating world of fantasy-filled creations. Her jewelry has been collected by celebrities such as Julianne Moore, Sarah Jessica Parker and Beyoncé. Her love of language and meaning became part of the creative process, informing the names of her collections: Stoned, Chromance, Regalia, Poptails, Scribbles, Sentimentals, Hotlips and Metamorphosis. Her first book offers a deep dive into her irreverent and authentic styles and collections, her shop and the world she inhabits as well as all the jewels she has brought to life." — IN STORE MAG

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