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Lot Essay
Cf. S. Barten, René Lalique: Schmuck und Objets d’Art, 1890-1910, Munich, Prestal-Verlag, 1977, p. 466, ill. 1334 for the drawing of a ring of similar design
ART NOUVEAU
Art Nouveau was a brief moment (circa 1890-1910), which had a lasting impact on jewellery design and many other arts. It was a completely new style based on original ideas, innovative materials and entirely different design principles.
In reaction to increasingly machine-made, mass-produced jewellery, free-floating forms from the natural world were explored as never before. It was a softer aesthetic, sandwiched between the icy monochrome of Belle Époque diamonds and the hard-edged Art Déco geometry that would dominate the 1920s and 1930s.
ART NOUVEAU
Art Nouveau was a brief moment (circa 1890-1910), which had a lasting impact on jewellery design and many other arts. It was a completely new style based on original ideas, innovative materials and entirely different design principles.
In reaction to increasingly machine-made, mass-produced jewellery, free-floating forms from the natural world were explored as never before. It was a softer aesthetic, sandwiched between the icy monochrome of Belle Époque diamonds and the hard-edged Art Déco geometry that would dominate the 1920s and 1930s.