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Adored by kings and queens, a symbol of the manufacture of ancient civilizations and the countercultures of the young, a constant inspiration for artists, stylists and designers, the chain is one of the most loved jewellery items of material culture and the most worn in the history of costume.

With an authoritative critical essay and large selection of photographs, this book - in an updated version, with expanded illustrative material - retraces the symbolic and aesthetic evolution of chain from early h

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Adored by kings and queens, a symbol of the manufacture of ancient civilizations and the countercultures of the young, a constant inspiration for artists, stylists and designers, the chain is one of the most loved jewellery items of material culture and the most worn in the history of costume.

With an authoritative critical essay and large selection of photographs, this book - in an updated version, with expanded illustrative material - retraces the symbolic and aesthetic evolution of chain from early h

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