From Function to Fantasy: The Brooch: Brooches from the Bronze Age to the Contemporary at Wartski

1 - 12 October 2025
Overview

The exhibition will span the Bronze Age to the Contemporary, and include loans from museums including the V&A, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Musée Lalique and the Schmuckmuseum, as well as the National Trust, English Heritage and the Goldsmiths’ Company. 

 

I am delighted my 18 kt Fairtrade gold Calligraphy brooch  has been selected for this exhibition - loaned from the Goldsmiths' Company. 

 

The majority of the works will be drawn from private collections.   Brooches of wide ranging-inspirations and themes will be featured, as will Royal, French Imperial and Russian Imperial examples.  From Sarah Bernhardt to Suffragettes, Sir Edward Burne-Jones to Salvador Dali, famous wearers and designers will be represented as well as the most distinguished jewellers of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

 

 

10:30am to 5pm

Wartski, 60 St. James’s Street, London SW1A 1LE

 

 

Entry Free.

Catalogues £10.

In aid of The King’s Trust.

For more information:
wartski.com/a-wartski-loan-exhibition