Jewelry, a work of infinite precision, may seem worlds apart from the gigantism of the great monuments celebrated across the world. Yet the two disciplines are deeply intertwined. The search for balance, the play of materials, and the quest for perfection of shapes are concerns they share.
Architects did not wait for the Art Deco era to create jewelry. The Arts & Crafts movement and the Glasgow School gave birth to Art Nouveau, one of the first movements to embrace true multidisciplinarity and foster fruitful exchanges among artists and creative fields. Later, Art Deco brought lasting echoes between artistic disciplines. During and after the 1925 Exhibition, jewelers took part in interior design in a context of creative porosity. The Art Deco style was everywhere, with stylistic resonances linking buildings, jewels, and precious objects of the time.
This talk, live from the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami, take you on a stroll through American cities to discover architectural marvels and their aesthetic connections to jewelry.
With Sung Moon Cho, Jewelry Historian and Lecturer at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts,
Paul Paradis, Art Historian and Lecturer at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts
& Silvia Barisone, Chief Curator at The Wolfsonian-Florida International University.
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