This wide ranging and very thorough study of Dutch jewelry in the 20th century will with-out a doubt become a standard work in this field.
Marjan Unger (art historian, publicist and teacher) painstakenly for the first time, presents a comprehensive history of all of the various trends, modes and styles in jewelry of the last hundred years and places them in their cultural, political, social and economical contexts. At the same time she devotes much attention and illustration to individual and often exceptional pieces of avant-garde, classical and popular jewelry.
Especially the avant-gardistic element in jewelry making is very dear to her and she demonstrates how exactly in this area Dutch jewelry in the last decade has made it into the international top.