How The Art Deco Movement Shaped Contemporary Jewellery As We Know It

In a webinar conducted by Christie's earlier this month, Marie-Cécile Cisamolo, jewellery specialist at the Geneva office, charted the various periods of Art Deco jewellery: the shift towards abstraction, Orientalism, Egyptomania or Egyptian Revival, and Modernism Below, she discusses Art Deco jewellery's Indian connect, the makings of a muse, and how contemporary designers keeping the Art Deco spirit alive I'm very partial to Modernist jewellery from the Art Deco period precisely because the jewellery that was created in 1929 by Raymond Templier or Georges Fouquet is avant-garde even nowadays.

"It's less about what the jewellery reflects to other people, but it's more about what you want the jewellery to show of yourself." Do you think that this new conception of jewellery brought about in the Art Deco period influenced future generations of designers and wearers as well? From the Art Deco period, people started wearing jewellery with a purpose With the explosion of colour and more playful designs like birds and flowers, the Art Deco period made jewellery wearable for anyone and everyone Obviously when new material like plastic was invented-I think if Art Deco hadn't happened, maybe there wouldn't have been costume jewellery as we know it. Source