Embossing, Punching, Guilloché Engraving

Book / Technics Arnoldsche

Published: 10.07.2017

Embossing, Punching, Guilloché Engraving.

Editor:: Andreas Gut, Frieda Dörfer, Pforzheim University / School of Design

Edited by:: Arnoldsche Art Publishers

Edited at:: Stuttgart

Edited on:: 2017

Technical data:: 156 pp., 18 x 24 cm, 37 ills. in colour and 98 in b/w. Softcover.

ISBN / ISSN:: 978-3-89790-510-8

Price:: from 28 €

Order:: Arnoldsche Art Publishers

Embossing, punching and guilloche engraving are techniques that have almost faded into oblivion. These trailblazing manufactory production methods were crucial to the rise of Pforzheim’s jewellery industry in the nineteenth century.

Today they are experiencing a new lease of life in contemporary jewellery. The ‘Manufactory-Style Jewellery Design’ project fosters the passing down of experiential knowledge through the collaboration of artisans and designers from three generations.

The “Manufactory-Style Jewellery Design” project, including the “Pforzheim Revisited” semester project, fosters the traditioning of experiential knowledge through the collaboration of artisans and designers from three generations. Thanks to their commitment, it was included by the German Commission for UNESCO in the German Register of “Best Safeguarding Practices for Intangible Cultural Heritage” in 2015.

Texts by: Dr Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, Gert Hager, Prof. Dr Ulrich Jautz, Prof. Andreas Gut, Andrea Grimm, Cornelie Holzach, Dr Ruth Reisert-Hafner, Birgitta Hafner, Almut Benkert, Dr Christianne Weber-Stöber, Frieda Dörfer, Sandra Pfäfflin, Curt Streubel, Dr Waltraut Neuwirth, Fritz Rapp, G. Phil Piorier.

Texts in German & English