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This book invites you on an entertaining journey through the fascinating history of beautiful stones. Through engaging scholarly and creative explorations of the intriguing realms of crystals, this trending topic becomes an essayistic source of inspiration for curious aesthetes.Starting with the earliest artifacts, we trace the evolution of the decorative use of minerals and rocks, which has continued uninterrupted from the era of stone settings and magnificent crystal grottoes of the Baroque period to artistic experiments of the 1960s and the modern trends in interior decoration. Decorative…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This book invites you on an entertaining journey through the fascinating history of beautiful stones. Through engaging scholarly and creative explorations of the intriguing realms of crystals, this trending topic becomes an essayistic source of inspiration for curious aesthetes.Starting with the earliest artifacts, we trace the evolution of the decorative use of minerals and rocks, which has continued uninterrupted from the era of stone settings and magnificent crystal grottoes of the Baroque period to artistic experiments of the 1960s and the modern trends in interior decoration. Decorative minerals seem to have found their place as stylish elements in interior design and creative expression almost purposefully.
Autorenporträt
Als Geowissenschaftler mit Hintergrund in Forschung und Handel bereiste der Lübecker mehr als 30 Länder und arbeitete international an mineralogischen und paläontologischen Projekten, war aber immer auch künstlerisch aktiv. Seit einigen Jahren führt er gemeinsam mit seiner Ehefrau Stephanie die Ladengalerie Kristallkontor in der Lübecker Altstadt.Das Ergebnis seiner fachlichen und kreativen Auseinandersetzungen mit den faszinierenden Welten der Kristalle präsentiert er in diesem Buch als essayistische Inspirationsquelle für neugierige Ästheten.