Desert Jewels & North African Art

A new art exhibit featuring beautiful baubles from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermès* collection of North African jewelry opens this weekend at the Arab-American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.



Conjointly with the exhibit is the book Desert Jewels, highlighting this

"jewelry from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt, along with late nineteenth- and early twentieth century photographs of North African landscapes, urban scenes, and portraits. The book blends a careful analysis of traditional North African jewelry design and Amazigh (also known as Berber) culture with dazzling images of ornate necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings, and fibulae."

If you're lucky enough to go, let me know what you thought!

More info -and photos- at the NY Museum for African Arts.

*Yes, that Hermès.