Huge Selection of Jewellery at Great Prices. The Latest Trends at the Lowest Prices. Free Shipping & Returns. Shop now!
Free Shipping Available. Buy on eBay. Money Back Guarantee!
Search results
3 days ago · Salvador Dalí’s jewellery design is a striking extension of his surrealist art, blending his eccentric, dreamlike visions with precious metals and gemstones. Collaborating with jeweller Carlos Alemany in the 1940s and 1950s, Dalí created pieces rich in craftsmanship and symbolism, exploring themes like desire, time, and the subconscious ...
Feb 5, 2018 · From Niki de Saint Phalle’s miniature monuments to Frank Stella’s nebulous neckpieces, here are 10 artists who created show-stopping jewelry.
Surrealist artists not only adapted their techniques, they also embraced unorthodox materials in their experimental jewellery. Meret Oppenheim’s fur-covered bangles, bone necklace and sugar-cube ring are examples of the Surrealist artist’s transformative use of domestic ‘found’ objects in her works.
- Lecture by Vivienne Becker, Jewellery Historian and Author – Long Read
- Modernism – The Beginning
- The Early Phase of Art Deco.
- From Art Deco to Modernist Jewels
- 1925
- From 1925 to The End of 1930s
- The Retro Style
- The 1960s and 1970s
- Contemporary Modernist Jewellers
Modernism is a hundred years old, but it is still very much alive and is driving jewellery into a whole new mood of avant-garde conceptual, abstract sophistication. There are distinct parallels between the 1920s and the 2020s, between the original modernist movement and our 2020s vision of modernity. Vivienne Becker’s lecture explores these paralle...
Modernism officially started in the 1920s. The emphasis on jewellery design was on abstract forms, on geometry, on simple compositions of shape, form, colour and texture – in stark contrast to the Belle Epoque garland style and to the naturalistic shapes and forms of Art Nouveau jewellery. The beginning of the XXth century was characterised by huge...
Art Deco can be divided into two main styles. The first one was Art Deco and its interpretations of the classical motifs that came from the Belle Epoque: the neoclassical motives, the motives from French 18th century revivalist style, like the vase or the urn. During the Art Deco, these motives became stylised, flattened, and the naturalism of Art ...
In the 1920s, a group of talented artists introduced what Vivienne Becker defines as the “true modernism” to jewellery. These jewels are opposed to, or from, Art Deco jewellery. It is a quite different aesthetic; the jewels were made in a different spirit. The jewellers, many of whom came from long established families of jewellers, took a very rad...
After 1925, after that burst of exuberant bright colour and arresting colour combinations (such as the “Tutti Frutti” jewels by Cartier), colour was suppressed. After 1925, jewels became monochrome, in black and white, or all white. Jewellers loved the use of reflective metallic surfaces. They played with light and light became a primary part of th...
There was a marked change towards the end of the 1930s. And one can pin this change down to the year 1937, when there was another Paris exhibition, the “Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne”, which shows how the expression “modern life” was a key expression of the period. Women became increasingly active, taking on m...
The year 1937 marked a milestone: it was the start of the so-called “cocktail era”, also known as “retro modern”, or the 1940s style. Jewels designed in the late 1930s are still mechanistic, strong, abstract, still based on geometry, but they are more plumped up, more voluptuous, showing a sort of “frozen movement”, as Vivienne Becker said. From a ...
This was another great time of social, cultural and artistic change, of social revolution. It was a time that looked to the future, which was obsessed with perhaps not so much modernism, but with futurism – a time of space and scientific exploration. And that, combined with the social revolution, with the New World order, generated a new mood of mo...
Looking at some of today’s jewellers who work in the Modernist style Hemmerle, in Munich, comes to mind. This is a story of a family jeweller with a new generation taking over and wanting to change things, to move in time, in the spirit of the moment. When he took over the traditional family business, Stephan Hemmerle introduced a whole new look th...
Dec 7, 2023 · The art of jewelry-making has fascinated humanity for centuries. Developing a jewelry line is a journey that allows designers to translate their creativity into wearable art. Whether...
Mar 26, 2018 · The story began more than 30 years ago, when Venet’s husband, the sculptor Bernar Venet, wrapped a piece of silver around her finger, creating an engagement ring and igniting her interest in what...
Find Jewellery Line Art stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, 3D objects, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day.
