Sunday, November 22, 2015

A FORGOTTEN TIFFANY DESIGNER

According to records in the Tiffany & Co archives, Izabel M. Coles joined the jewelry design department 1917, and remained with the company into the early 1930s. She was one of a handful of women trained in the applied arts to work on Louis Comfort Tiffany's jewelry, as well as one of a small band of designing women (including Sally James Farnham, wife of Tiffany designer Paulding Farnham) who purchased jewelry directly from Gustav Manz, who created numerous mountings for Tiffany & Co. during the same period.


But there's another side to Coles' career, as described in our guest post for Cooper Hewitt's Object of the Day. For more on Coles' relationship to Manz and his circle, check out Moonstruck Over Moonstone.


Above: A press photo of Coles on the keyboard with screen image of one of her drawings in the collection of Cooper Hewitt Museum 

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Friday, November 20, 2015

GUSTAV MANZ'S "MIDDLE KINGDOM"


Over the holidays we plan to trek over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a look at the 230 objects on loan for its current show "Ancient Egypt Transformed" (through January 24, 2016). Meantime, here's a throwback glimpse of Manz's long flirtation with ancient Egyptian motifs...


Gustav Manz pendant, above, photographed for The Jewelers' Circular review of his work at the MMA eighth industrial art exhibition in 1924 

Other examples of Manz's Egyptian-inspired work can be found here: Scarab Fever


Monday, November 2, 2015

HONEY BEARS




Sketch of gold bear ring mounting set with a star sapphire designed by Gustav Manz, purchased in 1918 by an executive from Walter P. McTeigue & Co.
(Gustav Manz archive, Winterthur)


Ah, November. Before you and your honeybunch hibernate, have a look at these Manz bears