If you're looking for a stunning book about jewellery in the 20th Century and the women who wore, and collected, the great pieces this is the title for you. Written by the renowned experts Stefano Papi and Alexandra Rhodes this title devotes its chapters to 13 women including Merle Oberon, Maria Callas, Countess Mona Bismarck and of course The Duchess of Windsor. Each subject has a biography with comment on their relationship to the jewellery and jewels that they possessed together with some great images of the pieces being worn as well as studio shots of the jewels themselves. The jewellery includes those by the best houses of the time, Cartier, Van Cleef, Harry Winston, Suzanne Belperron. The collections of both Callas and the Duchess of Windsor have famously made great prices when sold at auction but what emerges from these pages are the relationships between the women and their jewellery and those that gifted it to them as well as the sheer craftsmanship involved in their creation.