This book is a dazzling display of modern jewelry. Collector Cleto Munari commissioned these pieces from some of the most renowned post-modernist architects of our time, many of whom had never made jewelry before.
Mario Bellini, Michele de Lucchi, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Hans Hollein, Arata Isozaki, Richard Meier, Alessandro Mendini, Paolo Portoghesi, Peter Shire, Ettore Sottsass, Stanley Tigerman, Oscar usquets, Robert Venturi, Lella Vignelli, and Marco Zanini form the ensemble of designers architects. The imagery of their jewelry is a miniaturized architectural journey in itself.