Bijoux Art déco et avant-garde, les arts décoratifs (book)

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Art deco and avant-garde jewelry, decorative arts (book) by Laurence Mouillefarine. Norma editions. 2009. Soft cover of 256 pages. Very good condition, protected by a plastic cover. French version.

After the First World War, the vitality of French creation made Paris the center of the world. Coming closer to painters, sculptors and architects, French jewelers are among the first to join this renewal movement that is Art Deco to invent jewelry adapted to modern and liberated women. At the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts of 1925, a pavilion designed by the architect Éric Bagge, himself a jewelry designer, was dedicated to them.

The Fouquet house solicits artists who design spectacular pieces: the sculptor Jean Lambert-Rucki jewelry in gold and hammered silver, the painter André Léveillé pendants and bracelets, the poster designer Cassandre a pendant mixing amethyst, aquamarine and navy and shiny. Raymond Templier ordered the text of his 1928 Christmas brochure from Blaise Cendrars, the cover from Cassandre and the photographs from Laure Albin-Guillot. Jean Fouquet, Gérard Sandoz and Raymond Templier were founding members of the Union of Modern Artists in 1929.

Avant-garde jewelers, they look for simple, geometric shapes, adopting an aesthetic inspired by machines and speed: crankshaft, toothed wheel, connecting rod. Their combinations of colors and materials are more subtle, matte surfaces rub shoulders with polished surfaces, fine stones, diamonds, lacquer, gold and silver.

This work of great iconographic richness is published on the occasion of the exhibition “Art Deco and avant-garde jewelry. Jean Després and modern jewelers” presented at Decorative Arts. A collective of authors provides a complete overview of these actors and explores the little-known aspects of their work, such as their relationships with painting and graphics. The exemplary career of around twenty creators, such as Suzanne Belperron, René Boivin, Jean Després, Jean Dunand, Jean Fouquet, Gérard Sandoz, Raymond Templier, highlights the diversity and singularity of the art of jewelry.

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