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38 | The Jewelr y Book BOW – the new monograph by acclaimed jewelry designer Katey Brunini – takes the form of a coffee table book that begins with Brunini explaining that the book is not about her. Rather, BOW is an anthropological journey through the world cultures and spiritualistic constructs that have inspired Katey's life journey (both as a human being and as an artist/creator/ designer), juxtaposed with fabulously lush and color-saturated images featuring jewels from four of Katey's most intriguing and captivating collections. us, for Spirit Animals, she discusses Mesoamerican mythologies, South Pacific tribal mores, Hieronymus Bosch's e Garden of Earthly Delights, and the Iroquois Great Law. With Body Armor & Brutalism, she delves into natural and tribal iconographies, the Brutalist architecture of Louis Kahn and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Renaissance, and constructs of time. In the chapter about AeZeus Baldwin – a term she coined – the discussion leads to kintsugi, the Japanese technique wherein broken pieces of pottery are 'repaired' by gluing them back together with gold. And pulling everything together is e Red read, the ancient Chinese belief (akin to the Islamic concept of kismet), in which people can be predestined to find each other, as they are spiritually bound together by the lunar god Yuè Lăo. I've known Brunini for nearly two decades and have always been taken by her designs' totemic and talismanic properties (all the more so as I see Brunini as a particularly totemic individual). Since our first introduction – at e COUTURE Show at Wynn Las Vegas many years ago – the three words that have best encapsulated both the woman and the brand, to my mind, have been fierce, empowered and bold; and upon reading BOW, I'm pleased to see that these continue to be wonderfully apt descriptors. All images courtesy of K. Brunini Jewels The creator is a conduit. An alchemist of matter and of forms, unbinding and rebinding the meanings within. A generative of generations, and a generator of more to come. —Katey Brunini, BOW '' B O O K R E V I E W : BOW by Katey Brunini Fall 2024 | Editorial by Michael Shulman Fall 2024 | Editorial

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