Lot 5040
Long Spiral Beaded Necklace, Jessica Rose
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Approximately 25 in.
From the Collection of Francine Pilloff, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Accompanied by a copy of an article on Jessica Rose from Connoisseur dated July 1988.
American born artist, Jessica Rose, attended a Swiss boarding school as a young girl and later the French Lycée in London. While in London, she met her first love, Pablo Picasso's son Claude. Her career began as an assistant to Bill King, an American fashion photographer who was shooting for Vogue and other magazines during the 1960s.
Jessica moved to New York in 1970. She met and married Aaron Rose and the two eventually settled in SoHo. While working as an assistant buyer at Bergdorf Goodman, she was inspired to create art jewelry from the old discarded decorative buttons found in a storage area. Her work was influenced by her extensive travels and the materials she found. She found immediate success and stores like Bergdorf Goodman, Henri Bendel, Brown's, Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus sold her pieces in their showrooms. Robert Lee Morris, proprietor of Artwear on New York's Upper East Side, championed her creations.
Jessica made jewelry collections for Yves St. Laurent in Paris and collaborated with Issey Miyake. Her pieces were worn by Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction and Whitney Houston in Waiting to Exhale. Her wearable art was featured in Vogue and is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. In June 2000, Sotheby's London mounted a retrospective exhibit of her work.
Jessica Rose's exquisitely detailed and intricately crafted beadwork begs to be touched. It flows through your fingers, is delightfully weighty, and is impossible not to covet.
Good estate condition.
