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French-Inspired Jewelry: Creating with Vintage Beads, by Kaari Meng

By Kaari Meng

Celebrated fashion designer Kaari Meng—owner of the Hollywood-based shop, French General—invites beaders alongside to benefit all approximately her targeted French flea marketplace type. Meng’s tasks allure with their classic aptitude and female attractiveness, but all require little or no adventure to make. keep on with Kaari as she digs via her massive own data of vintage beads and creates certain items; alongside the way in which she teaches all of the easy innovations, from uncomplicated wirework to bezel surroundings, and explains easy methods to construct a bead assortment, increase a palette, and get beautiful effects from easy-to-find replica beads. all of the chapters are geared up by way of locations of thought during the French nation-state, each one with its personal colour scheme and specified necklaces, bracelets, rings, and hair embellishes to craft.

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The lid can be decorated in a variety of ways, either in a circular pattern or as a tondo. Encircling a gorgoneion, for example, we find a group of athletes accompanied by a flute player in procession toward the one who is crowning the victor (fig. 26, trans. PeterLevi, Penguin ed. Empedocles ap. Aristotle Rap. 7( = fr. 100 DK, fr. 551 Bollack); see J. Bollack, Empedocle 3. Lesorigines, commentaire 2 (Paris, 1969), 474-478. 7 Baltimore, Robinson; CVA 3(7), pi. 3 (297)1, and text pp. 12-13. Cf. the redfigure cup, Florence, 91288; CVA 4(38) pi.

The depiction gives a clear sense of the quality of this meeting: a male gathering, where there is an assortment of pleasures—wine, music, sex—and where con­ versation is represented by the play of glances and gestures that con­ vey the exchanges between the guests and their partners. The spatial 7 See E. Knauer, "Ou gar en amis," Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum 2 (1985): 91—100, and the red-figure cup, Brussels, R259; Beazley, ARV 169/7. The Space of the Krater xo. Red-figure stamnos, Smikros, ca.

He is like someone parched by thirst and eager to quench it, without any intention of sharing with others as is customary at a symposion. The bottom of the krater has a hole that empties into the statue's base, which takes the form of a hollow circular crown; the drinker himself is hollow and also opens into the base, so that his body and the krater are connected; the same action fills both the vase and the stomach of the statuette (fig. 31). The seated figurine has small holes in his back and the top of his head to let air out as liquid rises within his body.

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