Author: Loughran, Kristyne and Cynthia Becker
Title: Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermès Collection
Description: Long Island City, New York, Museum for African Art, 2008. Distributed by University of Washington Press. Paperback. Color-illlustrated black wraps with black lettering on pumpkin spine. 95 pp. with 68 color and sepia images. Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Museum for African Art, New York. (The exhibition subsequently was shown in Philadelphia.) With essays by Kristyne Loughran and Cynthia Becker. Includes a glossary of metalwork techniques. From the collection of Xavier Guerrand-Hermes. Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès is a board member of Hermès International (the fifth generation of his family to be involved with the luxury firm), vice president of Hermès Paris, and the founder and chairman of the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace. He is also currently serving as the treasurer for the World Conference of Religion for Peace and has been involved with the Fes Festival in Morocco. In addition, Guerrand-Hermès is an honorary fellow of the University of Oxford and received a Master in Theological Studies degree from Harvard Divinity School. He became an Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour in France in 2006. VG .

Keywords: African Art; Xavier Guerrand-Hermes Collection; North African Jewelry and Photography ; Hermes; North African Art ; ; Collections - African Art


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