Crystals & Trends

This book invites you on an entertaining journey through the fascinating history of beautiful stones. Through engaging scholarly and creative explorations of the intriguing realms of crystals, this trending topic becomes an essayistic source of inspiration for curious aesthetes. Starting with the earliest artifacts, we trace the evolution of the decorative use of minerals and rocks, which has continued uninterrupted from the era of stone settings and magnificent crystal grottoes of the Baroque period to artistic experiments of the 1960s and the modern trends in interior decoration. Decorative minerals seem to have found their place as stylish elements in interior design and creative expression almost purposefully.