Anna Hu: Symphony of Jewels Opus 2

Book in English

A dazzling look at the recent jewelry of Anna Hu, one of today’s most exciting designers.

• Anna Hu’s jewels have been exhibited internationally and worn on premiere red carpet events by Naomi Watts, Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna, Emily Blunt, and numerous other stars.

• Anna Hu’s Côte d’Azur brooch sold for $4.57 million at Christie’s, Geneva, a world record price for contemporary jewelry.

• Second volume of Anna Hu’s Symphony of Jewels.

In this, the second volume of a projected multi-volume series, jewellery designer Anna Hu presents a carefully curated selection of exceptional pieces created over the past five years. Born in Taiwan, Hu was trained as a concert cellist. After receiving degrees in jewelry design at New York’s FIT, the history of decorative arts at Parsons, and arts administration at Columbia University, she apprenticed at Christie’s jewelry department, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Harry Winston. In 2007 she opened Anna Hu Haute Joallerie, a French-Chinese fine jewelry brand specializing in one-of-a-kind jewelry executed by French ateliers using the rarest stones in the world. In Symphony of Jewels: Opus II, Janet Zapata surveys the impressive trajectory of Anna Hu’s career and looks to her future as one of the brightest diamonds in the world of contemporary fine jewelry design.