The Art Deco movement introduced styles that often focused on bold colors and geometric shapes. Because of new technology introduced in the beginning of the century and innovative new designs, Art Deco was considered to be part of the new 'modern' look when it was first introduced.
I've always considered jewelry from the 1920s or the Art Deco period to be some of the most creative and interesting forms of design. The jewelry is typified by geometric shapes contrasted with organic swirls.
Like the necklace (1930) below, Art Deco jewelry is both rigid and organic at the same time. The broach on the left was designed in the early 1920s and there is just something so compellingly elegant about it. Even though it does look kind of gaudy and very showy, there is a distinctly classic kind of beauty in it that is inexplicable. In both pieces there is a sense of a glittering textured metal that immediately draws your eye.
Jewelry today just seems to be lacking that element that makes it seem real. Because of advancements of technology, it seems to slick, to cold. It has become to commercial, almost fake. It appears to have lost its character.
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