The Met Store’s summer lookbook is brimming with art-inspired jewelry, scarves, decor, and more. Below, sneak a peek at some of our newest and best-selling designs for the coming season.
Art Jewelry
Catch eyes and turn heads with artful adornments reimagining treasures from The Met and beyond.
Our whimsical brooches—from a bedazzled butterfly inspired by a 19th-century Swiss watch to a jeweled ladybug plucked from the side of an 18th-century vase in the American Wing—make elevating any outfit a breeze.
For a bright pop of color, shop our collections celebrating sunny blooms. The cheery florets defining our Gilded Age Daffodil Jewelry are plucked from the “Daffodil” lamp produced by Tiffany Studios (American, 1902–32) around 1904–10. The daffodil appears to have been a popular Tiffany Studios subject over several decades, and archival photographs of the studio show real daffodils arranged on model shades, demonstrating how closely the artisans worked from nature. Now in The Met's American Wing, the lamp exhibits Louis C. Tiffany's (American, 1848–1933) enduring reverence for the natural world.
The Van Gogh Sunflower Jewelry celebrates Sunflowers (1887), one of four still lifes Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) painted featuring these eye-catching yellow blooms in Paris during the late summer of 1887. The artist Paul Gauguin once owned two of the smaller sunflower studies, which he displayed above his bed before selling them in the mid-1890s to finance his trip to the South Seas. Read our blog post to learn more about Van Gogh at The Met.
Or, opt for something a little subtler, such as our Willow Catkins Pearl Jewelry featuring delicate cultured freshwater pearls. The collection reimagines the willow catkins decoration on an elegant ceramic vase produced by Tiffany Studios (American, 1902–32) around 1904–9. Louis C. Tiffany was moved to produce ceramics after seeing examples of French art pottery at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Many of his pottery vases derived their forms from common wildflowers and water plants as seen in their natural habitats—ferns, lilies, cattails, jack-in-the-pulpits, and toadstools.
Art-Inspired Gifts
Summer is all about blooms, butterflies, and beachy patterns.
Make the Maritime Motifs Oversize Structured Tote your new seaside accessory. This 100% cotton canvas bag is large enough to hold the essentials, including a book; while valuables such as jewelry can be safely stored away in the interior pocket.
The shells decorating the tote are assembled from a selection of 18th-century engravings by Franz Michael Regenfuss (German, 1712–1780) in The Met collection. Fascinated by exotic natural specimens, the artist published Choix de Coquillages et de Crustacés, a book of wonderfully detailed depictions of shells and crustaceans. The portfolio to which these prints belong became wildly popular thanks to the large scale and finesse of the illustrations. Their three-dimensional quality is largely attributed to the skillful application of color, most of which was notably executed by Regenfuss's wife, Margaretha Helena.
Our lightweight Met Cloisters Garden Embroidered Linen Scarf is the perfect accoutrement for summer in the city. Its lush embroidery reimagines two charming flower studies illustrating sprigs of white Snow-in-Summer (Cerastium tomentosum) and blue Speedwell (Veronica chamaedrys) from a book (ca. 1510–1515) by the Master of Claude de France. This spectacular book at The Met Cloisters belongs to what's been called "the last flowering" of northern European manuscript illumination in the medieval tradition. The French artist immortalized a selection of flora in witness to their beauty. Each of the flowers in this magnificent manuscript can be found in the gardens at The Cloisters.
Find inspiration for ways to style your scarf here.
Sargent and Paris at The Met
In 1874, a precocious 18-year-old John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925) arrived in Paris. Over the next decade, he achieved remarkable acclaim by creating boldly ambitious portraits and figure paintings that pushed the boundaries of conventionality—culminating in Madame X (1883–84), which caused an infamous controversy upon its unveiling at the Salon of 1884. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue through August 3, 2025, Sargent and Paris gathers diverse works from this period to illuminate Sargent’s path to becoming an artist, which was indelibly shaped by his experiences in the French capital.
The dazzling Sargent Madame X Crescent Jewelry is adapted from the headpiece crowning the subject’s profile. Available in gold vermeil or sterling silver and embellished with white sapphires, our demi-fine necklace and earrings pay tribute to this lesser-known detail in Sargent’s showstopping painting.
Our Sargent Rose Vermeil Jewelry, comprising a vermeil necklace and earrings dotted with white sapphires, recalls the silky bloom held by Charlotte Louise Burckhardt in Sargent’s Lady with the Rose (1882). Burckhardt was the 20-year-old daughter of a Swiss merchant and his American wife, who were members of Sargent's cosmopolitan circle in Paris.
Shop our full Sargent-inspired collection here, and read more about Sargent and Paris in our blog post. Plus, shop the Sargent Rose and Sargent Madame X Crescent fashion brooches, likewise inspired by Lady with the Rose and Madame X.
Gifts for the Home
Give your space a seasonal refresh with our latest exhibition catalogues and timeless sculpture reproductions.
This richly illustrated book traces the complex and vibrant legacy of menswear across three centuries of Black culture—from today’s hip-hop aesthetic and popular street trends, through its use during the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement as a symbol of creative and political agency, to its surprising origins as an imposed uniform for servants and enslaved people. Organized by key characteristics of dandyism that resonate across time, including presence, distinction, disguise, and respectability, this fresh interpretation of a centuries-old aesthetic draws on prominent Black voices in fashion, literature, and art. These works are shown alongside historical attire worn by Black luminaries including Frederick Douglass, Alexandre Dumas père, Muhammad Ali, and André Leon Talley. Scholar Monica L. Miller contextualizes these objects in her text and shows how the evolution of dandy style inspired new visions of Black masculinity that use the power of clothing and dress as a means of self-expression.
Display it on a shelf or coffee table with a Met Store sculpture, such as the Auguste Rodin: The Thinker Mini Sculpture. Auguste Rodin's (French, 1840–1917) The Thinker (modeled ca. 1880, cast ca. 1910), who was intended to sit over the lintel of the artist's The Gates of Hell, contemplating the fate of the damned. Independent bronzes of The Thinker became especially popular among American patrons, and this cast in the Museum's European Sculpture and Decorative Arts holdings was commissioned from the sculptor's studio by Thomas Fortune Ryan, the principal founder of The Met's Rodin collection. As one critic described it, The Thinker—simultaneously cerebral and muscular—embodies both "dream and action."
Shop The Met Store’s complete summer lookbook here.
