Dirk Allgaier: Art Publisher and Jewelry Collector

Jewelry That Makes You Think.

INTERVIEW

DIRK ALLGAIER

Publisher at Arnoldsche and Contemporary Jewelry Collector

by Toni Greenbaum

Learn more about Stuttgart’s Arnoldsche Art Publishers, one of the preeminent publishers in the field of jewelry, which specializes in spectacular books on the applied arts. The company’s managing director, Dirk Allgaier, describes how the firm came to exist, its criteria for deciding what book proposals to accept, and the steps that go into taking books to press.

Image caption: Arnoldsche Art Publishers’s booth at Frankfurt Book Fair 2018, photo courtesy Arnoldsche Art Publishers

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