What is the Art Deco Period?
The Art Deco style is a very famous and popular art movement that had a lot influence in the world of jewelry. Art Deco was introduced in the 1920s as protest against the Art Nouveau. Art Deco ended in the 1930s. The style emphasized a very abstract design with geometric patterns and as most favorite colors black (onyx or black emerald), blue (sapphire) and white (diamond). The baguette and emerald-cuts, which had been developed in the nineteenth century, where very popular in the 1920s because they blended so much with the geometrical lines of the Art Deco style.