A book can be a showcase, an archive, a meeting. In the section Books of Spirit Jewelry, The works dedicated to jewelry, stones, and houses interact with those that tell the stories of design, architecture, fashion, decorative arts, or crafts.
Monographs, art books, exhibition catalogues or more unexpected narratives: each publication is chosen for what it reveals about a creator, an era, a material or a skill. For behind a jewel, a piece of furniture, a car or an art object there is always a story of creation, of gestures and transmission.
Reading to see things differently, Understanding what lies behind a piece of jewelry and discovering the cultures that inspire creation: the Livres section thus extends Esprit Joaillerie’s perspective beyond the jewel, to all those worlds where taste, craftsmanship and time shape our vision.
Art Deco Style, published by Éditions Assouline, is part of their Style collection dedicated to the major movements that have shaped our perspective on design. Written by specialist Jared Gross and featuring a rich iconography, the book explores the multiple facets of this movement, which continues to inspire designers, architects, and artists.
Monte Carlo is not just a book about a destination. It is an invitation to look at a place that is often photographed but rarely observed in all the complexity of its stories.
Petites Braises announces an ongoing collection: following the ruby, sapphire, emerald and diamond will be the subject of successive volumes. Each will follow the same rigorous structure—composition, provenance, uses, symbolism, presence in the arts—to transform gemology into a narrative discipline.
Since his first alliances with man, the feline has cultivated a tenacious ambiguity. A companion without dependence, a familiar without docility, it has traversed the ages with a almost conceptual consistency.
With Jewelry and Armenian Goldsmiths Under the Ottomans, Arsen Yarman reconstructs a fragmented narrative and gives it continuity. Through nearly two millennia of artisan names, recorded since the 18th century, a human map of Armenian craftsmanship unfolds.
The book Bahrain Pearls, published by Assouline, delves into a historical depth. The work does not merely extol a natural treasure; it also reconstructs its human, political, and cultural context. From the periods of Dilmun and Tylos to the contemporary era.
A Diamond Is Forever, published by Assouline Editions, does not open with a stone, but with an idea: the idea of time made visible. Through images, archives and narratives, the book shows how the diamond has become a shared language, capable of translating the expectations and values of a time.
The book Cartier - En Equilibre, signed by Mathieu Deldicque and Valentin Pérez and published by Flammarion, offers an immersion into the unique universe of the Cartier House.
With Dédale, L’École des Arts Joailliers continues an editorial adventure in which literature is read in the light of stones and decorative arts. Launched in May 2025 in co-edition with the Franco Maria Ricci publishing house, the collection brings back to circulation texts whose imagination dialogues with the world of jewelry.
The work places great emphasis on the scientific dimension. Technical specifications, gemological descriptions, and mineralogy concepts are presented with clarity.
The starting point is a manuscript summary found in the archives of Roger Caillois, the last trace of a project that remained unfinished. François Farges, with the rigor of a scientist and the sensitivity of a reader, saw in it the promise of a work to be reconstructed.
In Femmes aux Bijoux, published by Éditions de La Martinière, fifteen destinies are revealed through the stones that have accompanied them, consoled them, and sometimes betrayed them. The book opens up sumptuous yet painful settings where the brilliance of the gems reflects the wounds of existence.
Through this visual and narrative narrative, the portrait of a creator emerges that transformed the relationship to jewelry, imagining it both essential, functional, and deeply rooted in its time.
Published by Assouline Editions, Fashionphile: The Book of Iconic Bags explores the rise of the handbag as an icon of contemporary luxury. For three decades, this accessory has transcended its utilitarian function to become a distinctive signifier.
In a narrative informed by the archives of the Chaumet house, Laurence Cossé explores the turbulent trajectory of the jewels, objects of light and power, at the heart of the female lives of history.
For centuries, dogs have shared the daily lives of humans, embodying both loyalty and character. In Chic Dogs, Assouline Editions explores this indomitable bond between iconic figures and their four-legged companions through refined iconography and beautiful narratives.
When expertise becomes a story to be read.
The books that catch Esprit Joaillerie’s attention are not limited to jewelry. Fashion, decorative arts, architecture, design, and fine craftsmanship: each work becomes a gateway to a gesture, a material, a requirement—the essence of craftsmanship, regardless of the field it comes from.
Monographs by creators, art books, exhibition catalogues, and books dedicated to the techniques or the houses that embody them: these publications document universes where the hand and the long hours make all the difference. From Jean Schlumberger to Charlotte Perriand, from a master glassmaker to a couturier, the common thread remains the same: understanding what lies behind a remarkable piece.
Because craftsmanship never stops at a single discipline. It is equally evident in a jewel or a piece of furniture, a garment or an exceptional object, all of which are stories that illuminate, in a subtle way, the same requirement for creation.
Books to discover, collect, and sometimes to offer as the beginning of a new passion.
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