NEW HAVEN, CT.- The jewelry and bookbinding of artist Romilly Saumarez Smith will be the focus of a small exhibition this summer at the Yale Center for British Art. Opening June 24, Structured Elegance: Bookbindings and Jewelry by Romilly Saumarez Smith is the first exhibition to show both facets of her distinctive work and to explore the relationship between them. The exhibition will feature nearly fifty objects loaned by the artist and private collectors in the United Kingdom and United States. A passion for materials and process has fueled Saumarez Smith’s twenty-five-year career as one of Britain’s most highly acclaimed bookbinders. In the 1990s she began to use metal increasingly in her binding, gradually turning her attention to making jewelry. Structured Elegance will feature her sophisticated and elegantly bound books, commissioned in the 1980s by the British artist Eileen Hogan for Hogan’s own works for Camberwell Press, the Lion & Unicorn Press, and Burn