Jewelry's Shining Stars: The Next Generation
Jewelry's Shining Stars: The Next Generation brings together 45 new women designers who have liberated the way we view and buy jewellery. This compilation of talented women, who hail from around the globe, use techniques such as enamelling, engraving, and creating nuanced textural details in wax models, to bend the rules and break with tradition. While some work with their own hands, whether schooled or self-taught, challenging themselves at the bench, others work alongside artisans to reinvigorate the old school into relevant yet enduring pieces.
The book's stunning photographs offer a glimpse into each designer's different aesthetic and are accompanied by the jeweller’s own words, revealing what drives their approach and giving us an insight behind these innovators. With reverence for quality, style, and technique, these 45 talented jewellers are creating today's collectibles and shaping jewellery’s future.
Beth Bernstein is a jewellery historian, author, journalist and one-time jewellery designer. Her books include Jewelry's Shining Stars: The Next Generation (ACC Art Books 2024),The Modern Guide to Antique Jewellery (ACC Art Books, 2022), If These Jewels Could Talk (ACC Art Books, 2015), Jewelry’s Shining Stars (Fine Points Publishing, 2013) and a memoir, My Charmed Life (Penguin, 2012). Beth has contributed to many magazines, journals and publications including Forbes.com, Jewelry Connoisseur, Rapaport Magazine, The Jewellery Editor (online), Accent Magazine, Elite Traveler and Four Seasons Departures. She has worked as a senior editor for two leading national jewellery magazines, and in 2017 launched her own online jewellery magazine, bejeweledmag.com. Beth also lectures and organises and participates in seminars and educational events. Throughout the 1990s, Beth designed a jewellery collection under the brand name Bethany B, which sold to over 250 stores throughout the USA and overseas.