The famed New York City art and design museum is hosting an exhibition of over 400 pieces by renowned Paris-based jewelry designer Joel A. Rosenthal.

The Metropolitan Museum will celebrate the work of JAR in a detailed retrospective set to open November 20 and running through March 9 next year.

Based in Paris since the late 1960s, American jeweler Joel Arthur Rosenthal first teamed up with Frenchman Pierre Jeannet to open a needlepoint shop on the rue de l'Université.

The pair then went on to found their jewelry brand which operates under Rosenthal's JAR initials with a store on the famous Place Vendome in 1978. The label would go on to become a major success with JAR's highly ornate, individual (no two items are alike) and luxurious pieces.

"At every step of the making of a piece, he checks and corrects," explained Jeannet of his partner's working method. "And if at the end his eye is not happy, we destroy the piece. But the piece, finished, is not yet at home; his last look is to see that the jewel has gone to the right lady. Then he sighs, his work is done."

The exhibition has been organized by the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and curated by the department's own Jane Adlin.