Elegant Art Deco Brooch with Diamonds in White Gold & Platinum, circa 1925

The Splendour of Modernity

Elegant Art Deco Brooch with Diamonds in White Gold & Platinum, circa 1925

€ 2,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

"The new woman" was the ideal of the 1920s and early 1930s. She had won the right to vote, was self-confident in matters of work and love, and was part of the nightlife - things that still seemed unimaginable at the beginning of the century. Articles in influential German fashion journals such as Die Dame bear witness to the fact that a new self-image could also be translated into aesthetics, indeed, that it virtually necessitated a new aesthetic. The women portrayed there wore bobbed heads and strikingly made-up lips, loosely cut dresses - and yet the most influential among them were not simply style icons, but were active as authors and artists. It goes without saying that the floral and playful jewellery of the Belle Époque was reminiscent of the time before the war, of a different social order. The jewellery of the new woman consciously set itself apart from this: Clear-lined and geometric, it deliberately eschewed anything sweet. It was a linear, often emphatically austere elegance that characterized the most modern pieces of jewellery of the time. This brooch - or as it was called in jewelry catalogs of the time, a "broochette" - is one such modern piece of jewellery. Its design with the two large openings is based on the so-called "shoulder pins", which were particularly popular in the 1920s and were designed for a new way of wearing. They were characterized by the fact that they had a narrow round, oval or rectangular frame and offered open spaces on the inside through which the silk fabric of the dress could shimmer. Exquisitely crafted saw work and milgrains structure the platinum on white gold front, typical of the period. It is set all over with diamonds in various cuts, giving the design that inimitable white glittering elegance that makes the jewellery of the 1920s so desirable to this day.

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The Splendour of Modernity

€ 2,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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