The publication Feast: Contemporary Jewelry from the Susan Beech Collection showcases her
extensive jewellery collection highlighting its interplay with craft and fine art in her
Tiburon home. Welcome to a private tour of the home of American collector Susan Beech. Since
1991 Beech has been transforming her house in Tiburon California into an extraordinary
environment in which the themes of her extensive jewelry collection interact with craft and
fine art all against a backdrop of Art Deco glamour. Beauty is entwined with darker forces of
death and decay and glimpses of pleasure are complicated by a nod to the surreal and uncanny.
The result is a wholly original and fascinating stage for a major collection of contemporary
jewelry thoughtfully assembled over four decades. Lavishly illustrated and featuring four
essays exploring Beech’s activities as a collector and wearer as well as the key themes of her
pieces the publication Feast: Contemporary Jewelry from the Susan Beech Collection marks the
donation of the collection to the Renwick Gallery Smithsonian Museum of American Art in
Washington DC and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.
