Thursday, February 7, 2013

Art Nouveau Inspiration

A 41mm Bronze Mojave Chyrsocolla cabochon wrapped in 14K Gold wire with 14K Gold bead work. Once again I was inspired by my love of Art Nouveau style jewelry.

In the 1890's jewelers began to explore the potential of the growing Art Nouveau style. With the emergence of the Art Nouveau style, a different type of jewelry emerged, motivated by the artist-designer rather than the jeweler as a setter of precious stones-- there was less emphasis on precious stones like diamonds and that made way for less familiar semi precious stones, ivory, horn, molded glass etc.  Please enjoy pictures of my latest handmade creation. 







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