Monday, October 6, 2008

French Jewelry: fascinating all!


France is the institution of art itself. The country has encouraged almost every genre of art - from painting, sculpture, sketching, cloth designing, to jewelry designing - giving a platform for artists to create fascinating art pieces that will remain immortal for many more years to come. People who take a deep interest in jewelry can not resist the charm of antique French jewelry. Some of these classy museum jewelry pieces were inspired from the Art Nouveau movement with the popularity of whiplash designs like flowing hair tendrils, swirling florals with plique à jour enamel. Often luxury materials including exotic woods, oriental lacquer, pâte de verre and guilloché enamel were used to create communicative jewelry pieces that fascinated every soul from time immemorial.