Art Deco Jewelry

In total opposition to the Art Nouveau movement, Art Deco will emerge. Around 1915, desires for rigor, geometry and clean lines will emerge. The end of decoration and spaghetti curves: it is the line that must guide the gesture, clear, precise, decided.

Platinum and white gold eclipsed yellow gold. Jewelers gave pride of place to diamonds, onyx, turquoise and emeralds. The maharajas arrived in Paris with chests full of stones and had the most beautiful sets of the early 19th century made for them. Art Deco was a global art, it did not only affect jewelry. Architecture, graphics, fashion, everything changed. The arrival of the war would put an end to this creative momentum around the mid-1930s.