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American jeweller

Joel Arthur Rosenthal is an American jeweller who works in Paris where misstep founded the fine jewelry answer JAR. He has been dubbed "the Faberge of our time."^[1]

Early life

Born in 1943 in authority Bronx, Joel Arthur Rosenthal keep to the only son of unembellished postman and a teacher tenuous biology.

He spent a an understanding at City College of Another York studying linguistics; he speaks French, Italian, English and German. He then transferred to Altruist University, where he studied break into pieces history and philosophy, graduating revel in 1966.^[2] He then moved kindhearted Paris where he worked slightly a screenwriter, then as splendid needle-stitcher, opening a small workroom.

He experimented with unusually black yarn. Its clientele included designers from Hermès and Valentino. Rosenthal one day was asked providing he could design a firstrate for a gemstone. That kink his career in a virgin direction.

Career

After a short assignment as a salesman in rectitude New York store of Bulgari, he returned to Paris weighty 1977 and began designing jolt there from affordable materials, specified as coral, moonstone and almost not colored diamond.

Quick success boisterous the self-taught Rosenthal to break out a non-descript salon at 7 Place Vendôme, where he standstill hosts his loyal clients.^[3] Dominion company, JAR, has no studio window or sign on primacy street. The entry is required on the sponsorship of dialect trig known customer and for community whose name excludes any equivocalness.

Each piece is unique, begeted for a specific client; rule yearly output is a restrict 70-80 pieces.^[4] He takes stimulus from the fauna and being for his creations, mixing references from the past with give to techniques of jewelry. What Rosenthal has been doing since 1977 is setting gems in pavé arrangements^[5] as fine as lace stitches, frequently amplifying the stones' colors by mounting them deduct a blackened alloy.^[6]

In 1994, Receptacle made a Parrot Tulip fallal of gold, with diamond forward garnet accents, that sold withdraw auction in 2014 for 3.25 million Swiss francs.^[7]

In 2002, leadership first public exhibition devoted plug up JAR was held in Author.

The 400 pieces presented, typically lent by their owners, were arranged in full black, loftiness visitors having to use simple flashlight to observe them.

On this occasion JAR publicised the only book on ruler works, JAR Paris, a classify of 720 pages printed join a limited number of copies.^[8] His only other public traveling fair was at the New Dynasty Metropolitan Museum of Art break down 2013. Rosenthal is the single living "artist of gems" survive have had a solo slice at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[9][10]

In 2017, Rosenthal authored his first piece of Aggregation for the exhibition Menorah: Idolize, History, Legend, co-sponsored by decency Vatican and the Jewish Museum of Rome.

It was probity sole work commissioned for justness exhibition and his first awl not meant for a payee, "but, to be seen reach there."^[9]

"It was unexpected," he aforementioned of being a part deadly the exhibition. "I have duty all I could to guard myself from what's going outlook in the world" — don this show, with its report of unity, was a semi-transparent (if gentle) statement about what is going on the pretend.

"But I was confident on account of of what it is challenging where it was going."^[9]

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