Van Cleef & Arpels - The Art & Science of Gems by Alvin Pang and Berenice Geoffroy-Schneiter

For more than a century, the designs of the French jewelry house Van Cleef Arpels - Arpels have represented the marriage of an unrivalled sense of elegance with an extraordinary level of technical expertise and prowess. Tribute to a century of luxurious, glamorous jewelry design and incomparable mastery of materials. The book is organized thematically around categories such as Abstractions, Couture, Nature and Icons, and additionally features some of the legendary stones from the annals of the houses history.