• 300 pages
• 150 illustrations
• English language
• Released in July 2015
• L 27.99 x W 35.48 x D 5.28 cm
• Linen hardcover in a luxury slipcase
• ISBN: 9781614284284
• 4,218 kg

About the Author

THE PANTHER IN ART. Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter regularly contributes to art magazines including Beaux-Arts, L'Œil, L'Objet d'art, Le Journal des Arts. She has published numerous books and was curator of the exhibition Voyage dans ma tête, the collection of ethnic headdresses by Antoine de Galbert, at the Maison Rouge in Paris in 2010. With Assouline she has published numerous books, including Ethnic Style (2001), the two Primal Arts volumes (2005-06), and more recently Van Cleef & Arpels (2014).

EVOLUTION OF THE CARTIER PANTHÈRE. Vivienne Becker is the editor of the Financial Times' How to Spend It magazine, writes for newspapers and magazines around the world, and gives talks and broadcasts on her subject. She organized and wrote the catalog for the first major exhibition of René Lalique's jewelry, and curated Jewels of Fantasy, a traveling exhibition of 20th-century costume jewelry. Becker's previous books for Assouline include The Impossible Collection of Jewelry (2012) and Sevan Biçakçi (2014).

CREATION OF A CARTIER PANTHER. Joanna Hardy began her career as a goldsmith before working at De Beers as a rough diamond appraiser, and at Sotheby's in Bond Street as a senior jewelry specialist and auctioneer. Hardy created the Jewelery School of Excellence program, lecturing and leading master classes around the world, she published Collect Contemporary: Jewelry and Emerald: Twenty-One Centuries of Jeweled Opulence and Power with Thames and Hudson, and is a regular contributor to The Telegraph's Luxury magazine. and the Wall Street Journal.

THE PANTHER AS A CULTURAL ICON. André Leon Talley is editor-in-chief of Vogue and former American editor-in-chief of the magazine. In 2014, he was named artistic director of Zappos Couture, and he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, since 2000. Talley has written several books, including Valentino (1982); ALT: André Léon Talley (2003); Little Black Dress (2013); and Valentino: At the Emperor's Table (Assouline, 2014).