Art Deco Style Zirconia European & American Antique Sterling Silver Brooch 【Graduation Gift】 Christmas Gift Box

Art Deco Style Zirconia European & American Antique Sterling Silver Brooch, Purchased from a UK Antique Shop. Art Deco is a visual art, architectural, and design style that first appeared in France before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of architecture, furniture, jewelry, fashion, automobiles, and more. Art Deco is a mixture of many different styles, sometimes contradictory, but combined in pursuit of modernity. From its inception, Art Deco was influenced by the bold geometric forms of Cubism and the Vienna Secession, the vibrant colors of Fauvism and the Ballets Russes, the latest craftsmanship of Louis Philippe I and Louis XVI era furniture, and the exotic styles of Chinese and Japanese, Indian, Persian, ancient Egyptian, and Mayan art. Monuments such as the Chrysler Building and other skyscrapers built in New York in the 1920s and 1930s are testaments to the Art Deco style. Department stores and fashion designers in Paris also played an important role in the rise of Art Deco. Established businesses, including luggage maker Louis Vuitton, silverware company Christofle, glass designer René Jules Lalique, and jewelers Cartier and Boucheron, began designing more modern products. Starting in 1900, department stores recruited Art Deco artists to work in their design studios. The decorative work for the Autumn Salon of 1912 was commissioned to the department store Printemps. In the same year, Printemps created its own studio, "Primavera." By 1920, Primavera employed over 300 artists. The style of these furnishings ranged from improved versions of Louis XIV and Louis XVI, particularly Louis Philippe furniture made by Louis Süe and Primavera, to more modern styles such as those from the Louvre Department Store studio. Other designers, including Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Paul Foliot, rejected mass production and insisted that each piece be individually handcrafted.