Dawn of Modernity

Elegant Déco Bar Brooch with Sapphires and Diamonds, c. 1925

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Elegant Déco Bar Brooch with Sapphires and Diamonds, c. 1925

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In the midst of the ever faster changing world of the years after the First World War, the artists and craftsmen of Art Deco sought a new formal language that would be appropriate for the new era. They rejected the formal language of Art Nouveau, which they considered too sweet and too transfigured, and sought geometric rigor. This alone seemed appropriate for the age of automobiles, skyscrapers and express trains. This bar brooch is also committed to this aesthetic, optically widening its platinum-plated front in the middle to provide a stage for cut blue sapphires. These are intensely colored, laboratory-produced stones - the dernier cri at the time! A large diamond occupies the center, and sixty more diamonds with a total weight of around one carat make the brooch sparkle. Fine millegrains structure the settings and further refract the light. Bar brooches like this one were worn in many different ways: for example, in contrast to the 1910s, they were often worn slightly slanted and casual instead of perfectly straight. Bar brooches were worn on the top button of elegant blouses or shirts inspired by men's fashion, or even on a tie - a deliberate break in style and an expression of emancipation that was unthinkable just a few years previously. This very well-preserved brooch was probably made in Germany. It was later imported to Switzerland. It came to us from Hamburg.

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For a brief moment it seemed possible, the dream of a happier society without hardship and poverty, in new luxury and beauty. The First World War was over, the economy began to warm up and a new style conquered art, architecture and craftsmanship: Art Deco.

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€ 1,890.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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