Cast from the original by Gustav Manz, our two-sided e-coin could be worn as a pendant, charm, earring—or the last chip wagered after a long poker night. Availaible in sterling silver or gold. We share proceeds with Tusk Trust. Inquire at gustavmanz@gmail.com
Friday, July 24, 2015
Monday, June 8, 2015
MOONSTRUCK OVER MOONSTONE: IZABEL COLES AND BETH S...
The little known collaboration between Tiffany designer Izabel M. Coles and intaglio artist Beth Benton Sutherland (click title below to read full post)
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
In anticipation of this year's Belmont Stakes—where American Pharoah and his rider Victor Espinoza will race to end a 37-year drought on Triple Crown winners—we offer a collage of spirited stallions by Gustav Manz and others.
From top left: detail from manufacturing order for a Manz horse brooch and other jewelry, c. 1911 (Ferdinand Hotz stock book, courtesy Hotz family archives); yellow-gold and water-green tourmaline ring from F. Walter Lawrence's atelier, most likely carved by Manz (The Keystone, July 1905); Rosa Bonheur's iconic painting of the horse market held in Paris on the trued-lined Boulevard de l’Hôpital, completed in 1855 and given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1897. According to the Met's website, Bonheur sketched there twice a week for a year and a half, "dressing as a man to discourage attention."
Buyers for this and other equestrian motifs included Tiffany, Cartier, Shreve Crump & Low, T.B. Starr, F. Walter Lawrence, Udall
& Ballou, Marcus & Company, Black, Starr & Frost, Bailey, Banks & Biddle
Image from "A Master Sculptor in Precious Metals"
Arts & Decoration, January 1926
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Monday, May 25, 2015
THE UNSINKABLE ELINOR EVANS KLAPP
Brooch designed by Mrs. W. H. Klapp, with moonstone intaglio depicting Nike holding a laurel wreath, circa 1890-1910. Currently part of
The Driehaus Museum exhibit "Maker and Muse"
(Bronson Family Collection)
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
GILLOT, MARCUS & COMPANY AND GUSTAV MANZ
FRENCH CONNECTION
Hand-carved in gold by Gustav Manz, circa 1920s
shown with Gillot & Co jewelry box (Private Collection)
See original post here: French Connection
Friday, May 1, 2015
SAY MY NAME... FORGING A REPUTATION AT THE 1901 ARTS & CRAFTS EXHIBITION
Mermaid Ring by Gustav Manz for F. Walter Lawrence, circa 1900.
Lawrence and Manz exhibited a Mermaid scarf pin with a baroque pearl at the Providence Art Club Arts & Crafts Exhibition in March-April 1901
Mark: 'F. LAWR.' Private Collection
Early in 1901, the Providence Art Club issued a circular soliciting entries for an exhibition of arts and crafts. We recently unearthed a copy of the original catalog at the NYPL and rifled through in search of the usual suspects.
And there it was: the earliest reference we've found of Gustav Manz's output as an artist and jeweler's jeweler. The typesetter's misspelling of the craftsman's first and last name are unfortunate, but close enough: shown here with a detail from a Manz drawing in a private collection and the brass doorknocker on the club's entrance on Thomas Street, at the base of college hill....
Left clockwise: cover from Arts & Crafts exhibition catalog; door of the Providence Art Club; Manz's gouache design of a dryad holding grape cluster; list of pieces in F. Walter Lawrence's display—all made by Manz
The show's run was only 3 weeks — from March 19 - April 9 — but it featured over 600 objects: an impressive array not only of jewelry but art works in wood, glass, pottery by noted ceramicists such as William Grueby, textiles and furniture, leatherwork, bookbinding. At the center of the hall's upper tier was a display of favrile glass lent by Tiffany Studios.
Tiffany glass at the 1901 Providence Art Club Exhibition
Courtesy of Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum Archives
via Antiquesandfineare.com
According to a circa 1901 review in THE ARTIST magazine, the organizers' main objectives were to give individual craftsmen credit for their work, and "the excluding of works which could not, strictly speaking come under the head of art..." More impressive still, the club "even succeeded in enforcing the mention of the designer's and artisan's names in the case of objects exhibited by commercial firms." In 2001, the Providence Art Club celebrated the centennial of that influential exhibit with a show celebrating work of contemporary artisans.
Despite campaigning by arts associations, crediting individual makers for "added value" was a short-lived experiment. Branding with small plaques, stamps, or boxes bearing the retailer's name remained the norm, and still does.
Even so, we're keeping an eye out for a grasshopper with baroque pearl and heart-shaped peridot brooch...
Front view of the Manz mermaid ring
Image Tadema Gallery, London
Special thanks to the Librarians of Room 300 at the Main Branch of New York Public Library
for assistance in accessing the Providence Art Club exhibition catalog
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
HOW TO WEAR AN ELEPHANT
Gustav Manz's signature Elephant Bracelet helps support Tusk's wildlife conservation initiatives throughout Africa. We'll be wearing ours to Tusk's 25th Anniversary Dinner—mingling with special guests Jodi Picoult, Amy Dickman, Jack Jones, and Zain Verjee.
Hope to see you there!
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