Hello PG friends, don't know where to put it so I put it here.
I am proud to share a great piece of news :
I am preparing a lecture on the story of clasps through ages, in the Museum of Arts Decoratifs in Paris on october 16th.
I have been wonderfully welcome by museum curators who entitled me to have a window opened for better understanding of a torc closure dated 1st C BC,
(not the one in photo att below, but ... this is one of my favorites)
Isn't fantastic ?
What is amazing is that this story has never been documented before, I started collecting (you know I do love collecting photos) since 2004,
sort it all out by period and style and I even found the FIRST interchangeable clasp of the whole story of jewellery ah ah !!! 1800 years old !
Even the curator did not know how this one worked.
I pointed out several beauties to curators they never paid attention before.
I am planning to make a book about (english-french of course), next year.
This lecture will take place in the Paris, within the design week event coupled with the "parcours du bijou" (could be "route of jewelry" or equivalent) in Paris,
it is a wonderful experience to have this opportunity to do so in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, could not imagine such when I started my interchangeable clasps adventure years ago ...