Ornament Print Edition Volume 42.3

With our newest issue, Phyllis Woods gives a very personal and jubilant overview of the world’s oldest teenager, Iris Apfel, who is celebrating her one hundredth birthday this year. Apfel’s flamboyant and bold sense of style has made her the standard bearer for individual expression.

Robert K. Liu traces the path of this immigrant Japanese jewelry artist and her innovative techniques and materials in creating striking floral jewelry, a subject that has inspired human beings as far back as Dynastic Egypt.

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell reveals the newly opened Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, years in the making, now installed in a striking Los Angeles landmark. She describes the exhibits and installation design with wit and a keen eye.

Glen R. Brown explores the impressive diversity of artistic expression that lies in that simple object of adornment, the bead. In this exhibition put on by the Racine Museum of Art, thirty contemporary craftspeople show how the bead can be a canvas for abstract concepts, humor, and of course, simple beauty.