Art Deco Jewellery...
Art Deco Jewellery is a product of the age of the flapper, Jazz and the machine age and jewellery of the 1920's and 30's was in thrall to geometry: circles, arcs, squares, rectangles and triangles.Materials used ranged from rubies, gold, and pearls to plastic, chrome and steel. Platinum was the new luxury metal and was used with opaque stones like coral, jade, onyx and lapis lazuli. Costume jewelry became ever more popular and outrageous.
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Trend-setting Art Deco couturiers were Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli.
René Lalique, created glass jewelry in the 1920's and 30's. Gerard Sandoz came from a family of jewelers and began to design starkly geometric pieces for the Sandoz. His output is significant within the realms of the Art Deco period. Jean Despres, used industrial-design and the machine age aesthetic to produce jewellery that is interpreted as unwieldy and masculine, but which is suited to the Age of Jazz.
Art Deco Jewellery design influences come from the age of Egyptian Pharoahs, the Orient, Tribal Africa, Cubism, Futurism, the age of machines and graphic design. Fans and collectors of Art Deco Jewellery display a love of clean lines, bold colours and sophisticated design.
The ever popular art deco style is an architectural and decorative-arts style, popular from 1910 to 1940.
Art deco is characterised by highly stylised natural and geometric forms and ornaments, which are usually very symmetrical. Art Deco themes were often classical motifs reduced to geometric stylisations.
Art Deco glass uses geometric patterns, bold colours, exuberant, sometimes stylised, female figures, and animal motifs. Major designers of Art Deco glass were Rene Lalique, Maurice Marinot, Daum Freres, Marius Sabino, Etling, Schneider, Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, and Francois Decorchemont.