The story of Lydia Courteille through her jewelry in 239 pages of a book dedicated to the French designer.
Lydia Courteille fans now have a new opportunity to admire the jewels of the French designer. ACC Art Books, in fact, has published a new monograph devoted to the fanciful Parisian creator. The book is titled Lydia Courteille, Extraordinary Jewellery of Imagination and Dreams (239 pages, 59 € from Amazon). The book was written by Julia Weir de la Rochefoucauld, an expert on jewelry and capable of covering the entire history of Lydia Courteille, starting from childhood, love for novels, the passion for the stones that she saw the mineralogical museum Paris. And a good social skills: when she was child was in correspondence with 18 pen pals all over the world.
But the date that interests jewelry lovers is 1979, when the designer began his activities. Preceded by the work of antique jewelry, cameos repair or the transformation of broochs in rings. At that point he decided to get serious: he studied gemology and has joined at the collection of vintage jewelry those drawn by herself. It has been successful. The book contains the images of 20 collections linked by a single thread: the imagination. Federico Graglia