CARTIER PANTERE LUXURIOUS SLIPCASED HARDCOVER. These are brand new, direct FROM Assouline and packaged as they came from them! Silently stalking its way through Cartier iconography for a century, the panther is the proud leader of the pack of precious animals that make up the famous Cartier menagerie. No other creature or jewel is quite so indissolubly and emotively connected to outstanding 20th-century women of style, to ideals of modern femininity, and has become Cartier’s most iconic motif for a century. A symbol of power, seduction, and triumph since ancient times, the image of the panther never fails to arouse fantasies and dreams. Featuring texts by art historian Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter, jewelry historian Vivienne Becker, jewelry expert Joanna Hardy, and fashion editor André Leon Talley, Cartier Panthère chronicles the panther in art history, the evolution of Cartier panther jewels, the techniques involved in creating a Cartier panther jewel, the influence of the panther in fashion, design, and popular culture, and includes a chronology of 100 years of Cartier panther jewels. ABOUT THE CARTIER PANTHER: THE PANTHER IN ART. Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter, regularly contributes to art magazines including Beaux-Arts, L’Oil, L’Objet d’art, Le Journal des Arts. She has published numerous books and she curated the exhibition Voyage dans ma tête, la collection de coiffes ethniques d’Antoine de Galbert, at the Maison Rouge in Paris in 2010. With Assouline she has published many books, including Ethnic Style (2001), the two-volume Primal Arts (2005-06), and most recently Van Cleef & Arpels (2014). EVOLUTION OF THE CARTIER PANTHER. Vivienne Becker is a contributing editor to Financial Times’s How to Spend It magazine, writes for newspapers and magazines around the world, and lectures and broadcasts on her subject. She organized and wrote the catalog for the first major exhibition of the jewelry of René Lalique, and curated Jewels of Fantasy, a traveling exhibition of 20th century costume jewelry. Becker’s previous books for Assouline include The Impossible Collection of Jewelry (2012), and Sevan Biçakçi (2014). CREATION OF A CARTIER PANTHER. Joanna Hardy began her career as a goldsmith before working at De Beers as a rough diamond appraiser, and at Sotheby’s in Bond Street as senior jewelry specialist and auctioneer. Hardy established the Jewellery School of Excellence program, lecturing and conducting master classes worldwide, she has published Collect Contemporary: Jewelry and Emerald: Twenty-One Centuries of Jewelled Opulence and Power with Thames and Hudson, and is a regular contributor to The Telegraph’s Luxury magazine and The Wall Street Journal. THE PANTHER AS CULTURAL ICON. André Leon Talley is a Vogue contributing editor and the magazine’s former American editor at large. In 2014 he was named artistic director of Zappos Couture, and he has been on the board of trustees of Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, since 2000. Talley has written several books, including Valentino (1982); A. André Leon Talley (2003); Little Black Dress (2013); and Valentino: At the Emperor’s Table (Assouline, 2014). This magnificent book is a large Hardcover in a Luxury Slipcase measuring roughly 14″x 11″ x 2 in, has 300 pages with 150 illustrations, printed in English. Originally released in July of 2015, this weighs a whopping 9.3 lb. Brand new direct from Assouline. AND JUST IN CASE you need a way to display this, I carry a number of nice bookstands with which to display this. You can find them HERE! Most are strong enough to display this or any large format book. FOR MORE ILLUSTRATED and ART books I have listed which is usually a lot! Pay me, I send it, BUT ONLY TO A REGISTERED ADDRESS! I really DO CARE about when and how your product gets to you. Instead, select ADD TO CART. I HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THIS! I accept Credit Cards, eChecks and electronic transfers with. Unfortunately, direct bank transfers are not offered due to cost and security concerns. As I reside in the USA, all payments must be made in US Dollars & Cents. PLEASE remember this when you leave feedback scores as the choice is yours and not my fault if it takes a long time to get there! International deliveries usually arrive within 1-2 weeks but CAN take up to a month! Finally, we do not mark merchandise values below value or mark items as “gifts”; it is illegal and immoral. Ask and I’ll try to answer.. Please check out the other “lovely” items I have just waiting for you by.