Feast. Contemporary Jewelry from the Susan Beech Collection

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Published: 04.04.2025

Feast. Contemporary Jewelry from the Susan Beech Collection.

Susan Cummins
Barbara Gifford
Toni Greenbaum
Damian Skinner

Editor:: Arnoldsche Art Publishers

Text by:: Susan Cummins, Barbara Gifford, Toni Greenbaum, Damian Skinner

Edited by:: Arnoldsche Art Publishers

Edited at:: Stuttgart

Edited on:: 2025

Technical data:: 224 pages 21 x 29 cm, 340 ills, English

ISBN / ISSN:: 978-3-89790-733-1

Price:: from 38 €

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Welcome to a private tour of the home of American collector Susan Beech. Since 1991, Beech has been transforming her house in Tiburon, California, into an extraordinary environment, in which the themes of her extensive jewelry collection interact with craft and fine art, all against a backdrop of Art Deco glamour.

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Beauty is entwined with darker forces of death and decay, and glimpses of pleasure are complicated by a nod to the surreal and uncanny. The result is a wholly original and fascinating stage for a major collection of contemporary jewelry thoughtfully assembled over four decades. Lavishly illustrated and featuring four essays exploring Beech’s activities as a collector and wearer as well as the key themes of her pieces, the publication Feast: Contemporary Jewelry from the Susan Beech Collection marks the donation of the collection to the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, in Washington, DC, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.