A unique pictorial history of this small seaside town and the luminaries who have visited it in the last 500 years.
A surprising account of this famous jewellery firm where Geoffrey Munn was employed all his working life.
An academic study of the grandest jewels ever made. Lavishly illustrated with unique photographs from Royal collections throughout the world.
Over 18,000 copies sold.
A detailed interpretation of jewellery and gemstones as emblems of romantic love.
Originally published to accompany the popular exhibition at the V&A (2002), Tiaras is a sparkling celebration of these beautiful jewels with striking examples by famous designers such as Fabergé, Cartier, Versace and Westwood.
A detailed study of internationally famous artists who turned their hand to jewellery design.
The first monograph on these pioneering nineteenth century craftsmen.
Cast as a sanguinary tyrant, our first Queen Regnant may not deserve her brutal reputation, believes Geoffrey Munn
COUNTRY LIFE
The influence of a variety of Japanese works of art on animal studies made by Carl Fabergé is discussed by Geoffrey Munn
THE ANTIQUE COLLECTOR
Chapter 2 of the fascinating new book called Decoding the Jewels - Renaissance Jewellery in Scotland. Edited by Anna Groundwater.
NATIONAL MUSEUMS SCOTLAND
This previously intelligent, sensitive and mild-mannered man, found insane at trial, was committed to Bethlem Hospital on 22 August 1844 and transferred to Broadmoor Asylum in 1864. There he remained, confined At Her Majesty's Pleasure, until his death in 1886.
THE BRITISH ART JOURNAL
The interpretation of Dadd's images in any literal sense is usually as futile as it is fascinating. Indeed, much is lost when the spectrum of his delusions is examined in the white light of the real world. Nonetheless this drawing is strewn with clues that seem to invite interpretation.
THE BRITISH ART JOURNAL
Richard Dadd Dadd (1817-1886) and Edmund Yates (1831-1894)
New light on the painter and his press.
BRITISH ART JOURNAL
Jewellery has been described as the highest form of dress and in Philip de László’s portraits rank and status are signalled by both. For men it is uniforms, helmets, orders and medals that say it all but for women haute couture, furs and valuable jewellery reflect their noble, if not their royal station.
MASTER OF ELEGANCE
Geoffrey Munn explores the eternal allure of the rose.
RAVISHING - THE ROSE IN FASHION
A chance glimpse of purple and gold in a crowded cabinet led to an extraordinary discovery by Geoffrey Munn: a lost cache of of pieces by the Russian Imperial jeweller, Carl Fabergé. That was just the start of a mystery, as he explains.
COUNTRY LIFE
This book illuminates the career of a man who participated in a golden age of British creativity. It contains a dazzling array of never-before-seen sketches, designs and photographs from the Grima archives and includes a sparkling preface from the doyen of jewellery experts, TV celebrity Geoffrey Munn. A must-buy publication for art and jewellery lovers alike.
ACC ART BOOKS
During the reign of Elizabeth I, only royalty and the rich could afford to commission the exalted Nicholas Hilliard or Isaac Oliver to paint a prized miniature of themselves in all their jewels and finery. Imbued with symbolism, many of these exquisitely worked – and extremely rare – talismans and love ‘tablets’ have been brought together for a National Portrait Gallery exhibition. It’s all quite divine, writes Geoffrey Munn.
WORLD OF INTERIORS
Princess Margaret was as artistic a soul as her husband. Here’ jewellery expert Geoffrey Munn tells the tale of a piece of Balmoral lichen she had immortalised in gold.
COUNTRY LIFE
Around 180 objects at the Ashmolean Museum reveal how humans have embraced the occult over the past eight centuries.
THE ART NEWSPAPER
Geoffrey has written the foreword to Fabergé: His Masters and Artisans by Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm
UNICORN PUBLISHING GROUP
Coral is a complex marine organism and has a calciferous skeleton. It is sometimes blood red and is vascular in its form. Therefore in Greek legend it was said to be the petrified blood of the Medusa, and subsequently it was even seen as the blood of Christ.
INNER LIVES MAGAZINE
Gemstones hold a very special place in the human psyche. Their allure is hard to define and harder to explain but it seems that it is one of the characteristics that raise humanity above the animal kingdom. Geoffrey examines their mystical allure.
APOLLO, THE INTERNATIONAL ART MAGAZINE
Talisman amulet and magic catalyst, Geoffrey Munn explores the crystal ball from the 7th century to the present day.
INNER LIVES
The artist at the vanguard of gender fluidity. Geoffrey Munn reviews the Brighton exhibition that includes love letters and the artist's final painting, a memento mori ...
THE ART NEWSPAPER
The East Coast town of Southwold brings stories of hidden treasure, smugglers, murderers and on top of it all a famously haunted building in the High Street called Sutherland House, home to Southwold's own witch, Ann Cammell, accused at the height the savage witch trials of the mid 1640s.
INNER LIVES
Jewellery expert Geoffrey Munn claims the true inspiration for some of Faberge's remarkable Imperial Easter Eggs came from folklore, Christian lore and even throwaway greetings cards.
ANTIQUE COLLECTING MAGAZINE
Firmly based on Classical sources the French 18th century style of decoration was considered safe even by the most hesitant of patrons and collectors, explains Geoffrey Munn.
FABERGÉ RESEARCH SITE
In an introduction to the work of the famous Italian goldsmith Giovanni Corvaja the author Geoffrey Munn explores the physical properties of gold and the the deep seated hold it has on the human psyche.
ADRIAN SASSOON
The discovery of an unrecorded drawing provides the means to re-evaluate, in detail, a watch designed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that has since disappeared.
DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY JOURNAL 2011
In the early 1990’s Geoffrey Munn wrote a routine letter of enquiry to His Serene Highness Prince Rainier of Monaco. To his great surprise it resulted in the chance rediscovery of a Fabergé Imperial Egg, thought lost for more than 20 years.
FABERGE RESEARCH SITE
Geoffrey Munn on Victorian masterpieces that are being left to rot.
TIMES NEWSPAPER
A great collector and remarkable personality is remembered with affection by Geoffrey Munn.
THE ANTIQUE COLLECTOR
