Bling-Bling Art Deco Style

Super-duper-amazing art deco and avant-garde jewelry by Jean Després.

Jean Després, bague, 1937

Platine, or, diamants, aigue-marine
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris

Some of his work is on
exhibition in Les Arts Décoratifs from 19/03/2009 to 12/07/2009.

The exhibition is both a celebration of Art Deco jewellery and of the work of the jeweller and precious metalsmith Jean Després (1889-1980). 180 of this major yet little-known artist’s works, inspired by Cubism and machinery, are being shown together for the first time, alongside works by the great names of French jewellery in the 1930s: Jean Fouquet, Gérard Sandoz, Raymond Templier (all three members of the Union des Artistes Modernes), and also by architects (Robert Mallet Stevens), interior designers, (Jean Dunand) and silversmiths (Jean Puiforcat), all illustrating the formidable attraction jewellery exercised over the artists of the period.