Art nouveau

René Jules Lalique started his professional career as an apprentice of a Parisian jeweller. He had been drawing since childhood and was not going to stop this activity. Soon he brought several sketches of jewellery to the artist who taught him. They were strange, very strange as no one ...

I have been to Paris quite often lately, almost every week, it is directly related to my work. So, I'm always where a lot of rare and very beautiful antiques are sold. Sometimes it seems to me that I am in a museum, I see such beautiful things, and the prices let you only to admire. It ...

"Nine out of ten people love chocolate, and the tenth lies!" that's what the Swiss say. I belong to those nine out of ten who love chocolate, and I do not hide it! In France, you can find stunningly delicious handmade chocolate, completely of natural raw materials and without ...

This publication presents a selection of photographs of pieces of jewelry in the Art Nouveau style of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, with enamels and pearls. The more you see beauty, the more your taste and perception of harmony are honed. That's why we go to museums, theatres, ...

In the summer I was lucky enough to visit Gdansk, a wonderful Polish city near the Baltic sea. The whole city centre was devoted to the St. Dominic's Fair, where I met the amazing jewelry of Slawomir Chmielewski. Mr. Chmielewski uses not only various semi-precious stones, but also things from ...

At the end of the 19th and in the beginning of the 20th century the Art Nouveau style gave the world many talented jewellers. For example, in France it was Rene Lalique and Georges Fouquet, in Spain — Luis Masriera, in Belgium — Philippe Wolfers. Philippe Wolfers was a famous Belgian designer of ...

Today I want to talk about creating a lamp in Tiffany technique. You will find out what is Tiffany technique, what tools and materials you will need and you will look at my workshop :) The technology is named after its founder, the artist and designer Louis Tiffany, who worked in Art Nouveau style. ...

Rozenburg Porcelain factory (Haagsche Plateelfabriek Rozenburg), the first in the Netherlands, adopted the features of the Art Nouveau stylistics at the beginning of the 20th century. Jurriaan Kok, the artistic director, together with chemist Engelden carried out a series of experiments with ...

I want to share with you one love. I adore Art Nouveau in all its manifestations, though the epoch has already gone.  By chance, I found works of a modern jeweler who works in the tradition of my favourite style. Meet Ilgiz Fazulzyanov. His perfect enamel technique is deservedly called "the ...