Articles in Combs
Nineteenth Century Jewelry Part II
Most of the early Empire jewellery is made on the flat. There is little relief or modelling. It has the appearance of having been cut with scissors out of the sheet and stuck together in the required form. There was a certain carefulness about the execution but no imagination about the designs, for the ornaments of this time usually consist of groups of certain stereotyped details …
Art Nouveau Rene Lalique
The name of M. Rene Lalique arises instinctively as soon as one begins to discuss the Art Nouveau jewel. He was the renovator, or, preferably, the creator, of the Art Nouveau as we know it nowadays, and one can easily understand the enthusiasm and the admiration aroused by his work.
