Caught up in optimistic new departures, the Pforzheim jewellery industry, which had been in existence since 1767, was in its heyday around 1900. Nearly five hundred jewellery manufacturers, workshops and studios were producing thousands of pieces of jewellery a day for sale worldwide through a ramified network of marketing and distribution channels. A high point of this was Pforzheim's participation in the 1900 Paris World Exhibition, where innovative Pforzheim firms -- including Theodor Fahrner, Gebrüder Falk and F. Zerrenner -- publicly demonstrated their capabilities in a stunning collective exhibition.

Preface

Acknowledgments

What used to be there - history, crafts and industry, style and form

"There we make industrialists ..." - five lives typical of Pforzheim

Double [rolled gold] - working with a "Pforzheim" material

The Pforzheim Kunstgewerbe-Verein [Applied Arts Association] - The Design

The Kunstgewerbeschule Pforzheim [Applied Arts School] and its professors

Rudolf Rucklin and Das Moderne in Schmuck [The Modern Style in lewellery]

Pforzheim and Paris - fraught relations

Pforzheim in Paris - showing work at the Exposition Universelle 19oo

Paris the model - imitated in Pforzheim

An artist for industry - Georg Kleemann

The case of Lauer & Wiedmann

Pforzheim "draughtsmen"

The 19o4 St.Louis World's Fair - the swan song of Art Nouveau

The aftermath

Firmen// Companies

Firmen-Stempel// Maker's marks

Namens-Register// Index of names

Literatur (Auswahl)// Literature (selection)