Dimensions
287 x 287 x 25mm
Sometimes Wicked celebrates the life and work of Hollywood's first celebrity jeweller. This lavishly illustrated book features glorious examples of the jewels as well as the starlets, socialites and heiresses who wore them. At the height of Flato's career, he was more famous than Tiffany or Harry Winston. Branching into motion pictures during Hollywood's Golden Era, Flato designed jewellery for a total of six films, including Holiday with Katharine Hepburn and the disastrous Two Faced Woman, the last film Greta Garbo ever made. But, in 1942, in the midst of his celebrity, Flato found himself heading "up the river" to Sing Sing Prison as his career and reputation plummeted. Now, more than half a century later, Flato's distinctive jewellery, still fresh and chic, has re-emerged to a new audience. This book is the ultimate tribute to one of America's greatest jewellers. AUTHOR: A graduate gemmologist from the Gemmological Institute of America, Elizabeth Irvine Bray is a jewellery specialist at Christie's auction house in Beverly Hills. SELLING POINTS: A tribute to the life and work of the very first celebrity jeweller - Paul E. Flato (1900-1999) As well as images of the jewellery, sourced from auctions and private collections, this book includes photographs from the Flato family archives, important New York and Hollywood clients wearing Flato's jewels, film stills and studio portraits and the original drawings of the jewellery from private collectors as well as the Flato family archives 140 colour i100 b/w illustrations
