From Function to Fantasy, The Brooch, Exhibition Catalogue

By Katherine Purcell, Wartski
2025

Fully illustrated catalogue with over 250 exhibits


The exhibition (1 – 12 Oct 2025) spans the Bronze Age to the Contemporary and includes  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. The majority of the works are drawn from private collections. Brooches of wide ranging-inspirations and themes are featured as well as Royal, French Imperial and Russian Imperial examples. From Sarah Bernhardt to Suffragettes, Sir Edward Burne-Jones to Salvador Dali, famous wearers and designers are represented as well as the most distinguished jewellers of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.


Ute Decker is honoured to be featured in this book and exhibition

Price: £10 plus P&P


With proceeds from catalogue sales going to The King’s Trust.
https://wartski.com/brooch-catalogue-request/

 

 

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