Art Deco Diamond Rings – High Profile Art Deco Diamond
As a reaction to Art Nouveau, the movement of the Art Deco pushed the envelope toward a more decorative era by the 1930s. Featuring a simpler yet bolder approach, this time gave origin to Art Deco diamond rings in high profile styles.
The movement moved toward the newer avant garde designs, first used by the Bauhaus school in Germany, along with the French Cubism movement as the inspiration of the design. Therefore, a new style of jewelry with fast yet still sleek, industrial, more geometric, and particularly severe emerged.
Art Deco jewelry designers from the great houses of Van Cleef … Arpels, Cartier, Boucheron, Mauboussin, and Tiffany led the pack in creating high profile Art Deco diamond rings. For the very first time, the ring designers were a able to use bright colors with confidence. Diamonds were placed against black onyx and rock crystals were added.
Also, the use of baguette cut diamond to accent important diamonds also began to be common in this time period.
Sapphires, rubies, and emeralds were designed in traditional manners before but with these Art Deco designs, these gems were carved into flowers and leaves. In fact, the descriptions of tutti Fruitti and fruit salad were derived from the unconventional technique of using these colored gems in jewelry pieces. Because of economic reasons, the Art Deco movement faded out during the beginning of the Second World War. Even today, the style of Art Deco diamond rings remained popular over the years. The most popular Art Deco diamond ring design is the stepped structure of stones cascading from the center stone. Traditional mine-cut diamonds and European diamonds remained popular. These diamonds were mounted in platinum engagement rings along with turquoise, emeralds, rubies, and sapphires in stunning colors.
Old mine-cut diamonds and European-cut diamonds remained prominent. These diamonds were mounted in platinum engagement rings along with turquoise, emeralds, rubies, and sapphires in stunningly distinct colors. Sometimes, coral, black onyx, and other rock crystals are also used with diamonds. With the modern times, however, the use of divergent colors was eliminated and more thought was given to the platinum and diamonds for further sophisticated appeal. Of course, the Art Deco character of strong use of symmetry and the bold stylized geometric shapes is still there.
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