During the Art Deco period (1910-1939), the Pearl was the Queen! Art Deco captivated the world at the same time as Paris was shining as City of Pearls.
With its shape, color and even its symbolism, the pearl was the ideal icon for the modern woman of the era who was declaring and claiming her newly earned rights: freedom to change and to live life as she chose, to work, to create, to dance. In the world of liberated flappers and jazz, with the powerful graphism of Art Deco, pitting the stark black against the white in contrast, pearls played a leading role.
This talk will take you on a journey through Paris, New York and Tokyo at a very special time in history, when women adorned themselves profusely with pearls in a veritable “perlomania”!
With Inezita Gay-Eckel, Art Historian & Lecturer at L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts & Sungmoon Cho, Art Historian & Lecturer at L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts
Online Conversation:
Tuesday, July 1st
at 7 p.m. (Japan time)
In English
with simultaneous interpretation in Japanese, French, Cantonese and Mandarin
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Wednesday, July 2nd
at 2 a.m. (Japan time)
In French
with simultaneous interpretation in English
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Photo:
Van Cleef & Arpels, vanity case, circa 1925
Gold, pearls, enamel, diamonds
Van Cleef & Arpels Collection