This year, L’école, School of Jewelry Arts, supported by Van Cleef & Arpels, is celebrating the centenary of the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts with a rich program of events featuring a major art movement of the twentieth century: Art Deco.
This style, which emerged in the 1900s and reached its heyday in the 1920s, left a lasting mark on art forms often overshadowed by the fine arts, including fashion, design and jewelry. L’école, School of Jewelry Art sis honoring the movement with a new series of courses that reveal its sources of inspiration, esthetic and technical characteristics and international reach. Several conferences, held on line and in person, will examine different facets of the movement and an exhibition at the Hôtel de Mercy-Argenteau on display through June offers a majestic exploration of the pearl, a material favored in Art Deco jewelry design. L’école’s podcast ‘Voice of Jewels’ will also dedicate a season to Art Deco with an exploration of four iconic jewels. And for those seeking further information about this esthetic trend, the bookshop L’Escarboucle and L’école’s library offer a selection of major works on the subject.
