Eclectic art: how to wear jewelry "art deco"

Eclectic art: how to wear jewelry "art deco"
 Art Deco or Art Deco got its name by analogy with the name held in 1025 in Paris exhibition of arts and crafts. Translated from the French "art deco" means "decorative art". There was this line after the First World War and was popular for about two decades. Art Deco architectural structures created and interiors, paint pictures, sewed clothes and jewelry were made.
 Emerged between the two world wars direction Deco absorbed the stylistic strivings of the time: Cubism, Art Nouveau, Neo-Classicism and Surrealism. And ethnic features decorative arts of different cultures: ancient Greece, Egypt, Africa and the Far East.

Oddly enough, this eclectic stylistic trends and directions made Art Deco extremely innovative for its time style. Art deco designs were eye-catching and bold. These trends affected the jewelry.

Designer jewelry houses offered radically new forms. Hallmarks of jewelry art deco steel geometric, linear design with a distinct symmetrical composition, color contrasts, a special cut gems, the combination of brevity and luxury.

In vogue brooch-brush that attaches to the cutouts evening dresses. Daytime dresses decorated with beads made from natural stones, as well as a long string of artificial pearls. For the trendy styles of dresses with cutouts on the back jewelers offered as an accessory sotuary (long chains with pendants at the end of a rhinestone or gem). The name "sotuar" prizoshlo from the French phrase "porter en sautoire", which means "to wear on your back."

Fashion for short haircuts dictated particularly popular long (10 cm) and large cascading earrings clips that cover the entire ear lobe.

Of particular popularity of wristwatches, as a symbol of dynamism and speed time. They were abundant, diverse forms and decor. Case and bracelet was made to decorate the precious stones.

Favorite stones of that time became jade, topaz, coral, zircon and aquamarine. Jewelers replaced the traditional round cut triangular, trapezoidal and emerald. Fashion jewelry house Cartier, Fouquet, Bucheron, Van Cleef Arpels introduced technical innovations that allowed to mount jewelry stones without teeth. On decorations using this technique could attach a set of closely adjacent to each other stones.

Today eclectic style of Art Deco in jewelry is very popular again. It is chosen confident ladies who prefer an aristocratic restraint.

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