Charming: The Magic of Charm Jewelry

Charms for love, luck, and protection have been around since the earliest human societies, whether in the form of ancient Egyptian scarabs or Chinese tortoises, horseshoe pendants or heart-shaped lockets, talismans against the Evil Eye or Saint Christopher medals. This beautifully photographed and entertaining book, with 108 images of such public figures as Lauren Bacall and Marlene Dietrich, Anne Boleyn and Princess Diana, Orlando Bloom and Scarlett Johansson, and Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel, and the charms they keep close, looks at the lasting importance of charms through the modern use of them on necklaces and charm bracelets.