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Title: Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry by Elizabeth Taylor ISBN: 0-7432-3664-5 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 30 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Liz's Jewels
Comment: This is an absolutely breath-taking book. It has 280 illustrations, 175 of them in color, and many of them from Elizabeth Taylor's personal collection. I cannot stress how vivid and gloriously they capture the beauty of Ms. Taylor and her jewelry. The wonderful stories that go along with many of the pieces portray Elizabeth as a witty, warm ... and yes, cunning woman. I've always been a huge fan of hers, but this book has made me even more so.
Although Ms. Taylor own magnificent pieces from some of the most famous jewelers of all time ... Cartier, Bulgari, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Jean Schlumberger (Tiffany & Co.) ... many of my favorite's were her historical pieces. Like the Duchess of Windsor's diamond brooch, the Taj Mahal diamond, La Peregrina, and a beautiful bracelet from the collection of King Farouk.
The book also has a wonderful index that describes almost every piece in the book, along with who bought it and where. Some of you may be surprised to find that although Richard Burton and Mike Todd sure knew how to spoil a girl, Ms. Taylor did buy a lot of her jewelry herself. I also read from one of the following reviews that Ms. Taylor did not say who or why she sold the 69.42 carat Taylor-Burton diamond. I can't tell you why she sold it, but the index says she sold it in 1978 to a jeweler named Lambert who in turn sold it to Mr. Robert Mouawad in December of 1979.
So, even if you don't particulary care for Elizabeth Taylor and her legendary love affair with jewels, this book leaves little or no doubt that Ms. Taylor is definitely one of the most beautiful women of all time and her jewels are some of the most fabulous.
Rating: 5
Summary: Liz's Jewels
Comment: This is an absolutely breaktaking book. It has 280 illustrations, 175 of them in color, and many of them from Elizabeth Taylor's personal collection. I cannot stress how vivid and gloriously they capture the beauty of Ms. Taylor and her jewelry. The wonderful stories that go along with many of the pieces portray Elizabeth as a witty, warm ... and yes, cunning woman. I've always been a huge fan of hers, but this book has made me even more so.
Although Ms. Taylor own magnificent pieces from some of the most famous jewelers of all time ... Cartier, Bulgari, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Jean Schlumberger (Tiffany & Co.) ... many of my favorite's were her historical pieces. Like the Duchess of Windsor's diamond brooch, the Taj Mahal diamond, La Peregrina, and a beautiful bracelet from the collection of King Farouk.
The book also has a wonderful index that describes almost every piece in the book, along with who bought it and where. Some of you may be surprised to find that although Richard Burton and Mike Todd sure knew how to spoil a girl, Ms. Taylor did buy a lot of her jewelry herself. I also read from one of the following reviews that Ms. Taylor did not say who or why she sold the 69.42 carat Taylor-Burton diamond. I can't tell you why she sold it, but the index says she sold it in 1978 to a jeweler named Lambert who in turn sold it to Mr. Robert Mouawad in December of 1979.
So, even if you don't particulary care for Elizabeth Taylor and her legendary love affair with jewels, this book leaves little or no doubt that Ms. Taylor is definitely one of the most beautiful women of all time and her jewels are some of the most fabulous.
Rating: 5
Summary: Grandma loved it
Comment: I didn't read this book. I bought it as a gift for my 87 year old grandmother. Someone had mentioned this book on another website and I came here to look it over.
I was impressed. The photographs I saw and the reviews were impressive. I knew she would love it. I bought it for her for Mother's Day.
She phoned me to tell me how much she LOVED it! I've never seen her go on and on about a book. I know if she didn't love the book she would have just said "Thank you sweetheart." But this was a different reaction. Her friends have seen the book on the table in the living room and tell her how much they love it. And how the photographs are superb.
I'm sure when I visit her I will spend hours looking at this book at her house. She told me that she spent hours and hours just sitting in the chair looking at all the great photos.
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Title: Famous Jewelry Collectors by Stefano Papi, Alexandra Rhodes ISBN: 0810933411 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: Elizabeth Taylor: The Queen and I by Gianni Bozzacchi ISBN: 0299179303 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 06 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Bejeweled : Great Designers, Celebrity Style by Penny Proddow, Marion Fasel ISBN: 0810906163 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Christie's Twentieth-Century Jewelry by David Lancaster, Sally Everitt ISBN: 0823006409 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Queens' Jewels by Vincent Meylan ISBN: 284323364X Publisher: Assouline Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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