Our schedule was getting pretty full during our last week in Paris, but we squeezed in a time slot on the opening day of the new Un Art Nouveau exhibition at the School of Jewelry Arts. Jewelry occupies an important place in the Art Nouveau movement and so was something we really wanted to see. Moreover, grand-daughter Penelope has gotten into jewelry-making in a big way, and we wanted to be able to show her what it all was like in the Belle Epoque. Click to enlarge!
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The School of Jewelry Arts occupies several floors
in a building near the Place Vendome in the 1st |
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Excellent interpretive stuff all through; the exhibition was
organized thematically, mostly...in terms of types of things
depicted...most of the items were pendants and brooches |
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| [click to enlarge] |
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| Georges Fouquet octopus |
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Poster child of the show, Georges Fouquet's Pendentif Nymphe
des Mers; among the hallmarks of art nouveau jewelry were color
and the use of many different substances in addition to the usual
gold and silver and such |
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Maison Boucheron, Broche Cerf-Volant; we think this means
"attack beetle," not cockroach; the art nouveau jewelers, particularly
Lalique, really liked bugs, especially those encrusted with rubies,
diamonds, etc. |
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| A Lalique brooch that is not a bug |
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| Two Lalique brooches, Glycine and Chrysanthememes, both 1900 |
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| Maison Boucheron, La ForĂȘt, 1910 |
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| Maison D'Isgny, Tinkerbell, 1905 đ |
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| Lalique, Sylphide, 1900; not a bug |
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Lalique, broches-pendentif, 1898-1890; from the Schmuckmuseum,
Pforzheim; seriously |
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| Lalique, Femmes-pensees, 1900 |
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| Antony Beaudouin, Bague, 1900-1901 |
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| E. Colin, Algues, 1900 |
3 comments:
What a treat to see those pieces!
Wow! I can only hope they had an excellent gift shop! ;)
Can't wait to show Penelope when she's home from camp.
Actually no gift shoppe at all. There was a free color catalog of everything on display. We grabbed a copy for P.
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