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tokens of affection; A free-spirited Los Angeles jewelry designer turns storybook notions into solid gold.(Brief article)
Byline: Jane Herman
Stuart England wasn't always a romantic. Working out of the very Dickensian basement workshop in his Chinatown home, he made his name over the past few years with unapologetically raw and minimalist jewelry: "Supermodernist, very structural angular stuff," he says, heavy rings and necklaces of gold shaped and soldered to look like wire.
Then he got married-to the Criminal Minds actress Lola Glaudini-and everything changed.
England's latest collection is all romance: a series of gold-coin pendants embossed with folkish, fairy-tale motifs based on the adventuresome 1905 love story of the French Revolution, The Scarlet Pimpernel. "I like the story of the Pimpernel; I liked it when I was a kid," says the devil-may-care designer of the stag, the swan, and the snake in a top hat rendered in these pieces. "The figures aren't really in the book. They're just what
I imagined might be sewn onto one of the characters' jackets, or engraved into another ...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire January 10, 2004 700+ words
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- The French Revolution and British Culture.
- Magazine article from: The English Historical Review Stevenson, John April 1, 1993 700+ words
Volumes celebrating the French Revolution have many and diverse objectives. The French Revolution and British Culture, ed. Ceri Crossley...examine British cultural responses to the French Revolution and to explore the ways in which the...
- The French Revolution: the Essential Readings.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Germani, Ian April 1, 2003 700+ words
...scholarship as rich as that of the French Revolution is inherently problematic. Inevitably...teachers of advanced courses on the French Revolution now have several such volumes from...notably, Jack Censer (ed.), The French Revolution and Intellectual History (Chicago...
- Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution.
- Magazine article from: National Review Hart, Jeffrey December 31, 1989 700+ words
...Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, THE YEAR just passing...hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution, or, more precisely...as many theories of the French Revolution as there are historians...
- The French Revolution and Southeastern Europe.
- Magazine article from: Middle Eastern Studies Vatikiotis, P.J. April 1, 1993 700+ words
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- Making Democracy in the French Revolution.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Whaley, Leigh April 1, 2003 700+ words
...Over two hundred years on, the French Revolution is constantly undergoing metamorphosis...in terms of modern history. The French Revolution is no longer of any significant historical...terms "the devaluation" of the French Revolution has had a great impact on the devaluation...
- Cabbage heads and gulps of water: Hegel on the Terror. (the French Revolution;...
- Magazine article from: Political Theory Schmidt, James February 1, 1998 700+ words
...the sole "work and deed" of the French Revolution was: death, and indeed a death...typically treat the discussion of the French Revolution in the Phenomenology as a first draft...development of Hegel's views on the French Revolution more straightforward than they in...
- Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Palmer, Douglas March 22, 2006 700+ words
Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution. By Alan Forrest. (London...the French provinces during the French Revolution. The thrust of Alan Forrest's study is that the French Revolution inherited the Old Regime's political...
- Reconsidering political experience: new trends in interpretations of the French...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Adkins, G. Matthew August 1, 2004 700+ words
Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-Historical Perspective...The Federalist Revolt in the French Revolution, by Paul R. Hanson. University...recent historiography of the French Revolution has re-introduced with a...
- Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory.
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Walton, Whitney February 1, 1994 700+ words
...by women who lived through the French Revolution. They were duchesses, ladies...constructs a largely negative story of the French Revolution. The women describe the death of...indicates how men remembered the French Revolution, it is hard for us to see just what...
