Word: masriera
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...were around to be delighted. Though the great days of jewelry design have come and mostly gone, they have not disappeared entirely, as Barbara Cartlidge's Twentieth-Century Jewelry (Abrams; 238 pages; $60) very handsomely makes clear. In the early part of the century, designers like the Spaniard Luis Masriera were turning out lovely art nouveau brooches--golden angels balancing gleaming pearls--and as late as 1949 Salvador Dali transformed one of his famous surrealistic eyes into a diamond, ruby and enamel watch. The gold and the jewels still shine in the '80s, but too many designers, alas, seem...
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