• Stunning illustrations showcase 1,700 jewelery items from the most renowned jewelers from all over the world • First publication of the Danner Stiftung's and Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum's collections • Includes works from Anni Albers, Onno Boekhoudt, Susan Cohn, Therese Hilbert, Melanie Isverding, Hermann Jünger, Jung-Hoo Kim, Esther Knobel, Fritz König, Otto Künzli, Kadri Mälk, Eija Mustonen, Margaret West, Kiff Slemmons, Henry van de Velde, Ai Weiwei, Petra Zimmermann The Danner Rotunde, the jewelery room in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, was opened in 2004. Ambitious activities by the Danner-Stiftung and Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, with the support of renowned jewelery artists such as Hermann Jünger, Otto Künzli and Peter Skubic, bore the fruit of two globally renowned jewelery collections. Today these comprise far in excess of 1,700 jewelery items, presented in pictures for the first time in this synopsis. Interviews with the creative minds behind these two unique collections in the field of studio jewelery enable insights into a previously unknown history, and an illustrated chronology arrives at astonishing results. Biographies on more than 300 jewelery artists also present those who have been virtually forgotten today. An indispensable compendium on the subject of contemporary jewelery art. Text in English and German.