500 Brooches: Inspiring Adornments for the Body [A Lark Jewelry Book] Paperback – February 1, 2005

Another good book from this series

The 500 series of books inspire even the very beginner jewelry maker. They pique your interest to learn advanced techniques to some day be able to make something as beautiful as anything in these books. Wonderful inspiration and excellent photography on beautiful quality paper. Thanks to all and to Amazon for the wonderful pricing as well.

After looking through 1000 Rings, I was a bit disappointed in this sequal. Although the photography is excellent, it doesn't represent the same range and variety of styles. I did enjoy this book however, and will use it as a source of inspiration - it just didn't provide as much benefit as I'd hoped for.

Looking through this book, one cannot help wonder at the creativity of the human mind. How can there be such a diversity and invention in an object as small as a brooch? This book is a great snapshot of where contemporary jewellery (brooches) is at in the early 2000. The pictures are beautiful, there is just enough text to understand what you are seeing and know about the creator, and the way the pieces are put together (curated?) is excellent.For the jewellery designer this is a fantastic resource book, and for anyone else, it is a great introduction to an artform not always known or appreciated and to the discovery that jewellery can be far more a craft.The only thing against it: it is perhaps too heavily weighted towards American creators: I would have liked to see more Japanese, Australian, New Zealand creators.

Lark has a series of books presenting well photographed, contemporary fine crafts. This book is a good survey of what is being created in brooches (compared to the bracelet book, which is not at all complete or even a small survey of contemporary work and should have been a gallery brochure). If you are teaching in art history or fine crafts areas, this is an important resource for students, collectors, museums, and libraries.

A must have for people who are seeking inspiration. However, some design of the brooches are too "new" (i.e. not wearable) for me. They are more like art instead of jewelry.

What a bunch of junk! I'm glad that I didn't buy the book, because I would have had to dump it at the recycle box. There were a few pieces made by professionals (very few), but the rest was stuff that you would expect to see made by kids in grade school. I guess the millennials have changed the definition of 'jewelry' to be the same as for 'junk': "old or discarded articles that are considered useless or of little value."

このシリーズのジュエリー関連ではブローチが一番よかったと個人的には思っています。何年か前に流行って、また最近つける人が多くなっていますが、まだネックレスや指輪に比べればすくないのがブローチ。でも作る側から考えればいろんなことができるものであると思います。そのことが実践されている作品が沢山載っています。個性的で面白いものが一杯で、制作者やデザイナーだけでなく、ジュエリーが好きな人にもいいのではないでしょうか。買って損はしないと思います。