Art Deco
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Celebrate your engagement with an antique ring
I am a magpie when it comes to jewellery. This has been true since I was a child when I would play dress up with my moms beads and bangles and it has not abated in my adult life. I think it is true to say that I follow in a long line of magpies – my mom has an extensive and beautiful collection of jewels, and my nan’s bedroom was always a treasure trove filled with heavy charm bracelets, Sovereign rings and other pieces that could only make my eyes goggle when I was young. Where I differ from my mother and grandmother is that, in general, my jewellery…
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Art Deco is 100.
Art Deco is 100! Yes it is 100 years since the Paris exhibition that launched the name of this most modernistic of styles of architecture, fashion and jewellery that took its cues from geometric shapes and patterns, from Egyptian motifs and from streamlined ideas that incorporated the brightest and boldest of colours. It was a style that was perfect for the bright young things of the 1920’s Jazz Age, but also worked well with those bias cut styles of the 1930’s era (where most of the episodes of the Agatha Christie Poirot series were set), and then had a massive resurgence in the 1960’s – think Biba with its gold…
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Relics of New Street – B’ham Heritage Week
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Adding Art Deco touches to your home.
When it comes to style, there is one era and design period that stands out as perfection. The Art Deco era, which was first popular in the 1920s and 30s was a time of design that was notable for its striking modernity and visual boldness, both in colour and form. Art Deco was all about rich, bold colours. Geometric shapes and straight lines were also fused with curves, half moons and ornamentation that was not always well received at the time. The Art Deco look now seems so well suited to the 1920s, you can only really see this trend rising at the same time as the emergence of the…
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Art Deco is 100.
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Hepburn & Hughes: Stunning Art Deco Jewellery
I love discovering new and unusual jewellery collections, and the story behind the pieces created by Hepburn and Hughes are just incredible. Louise & Zoe, the creative brains behind the brand, which is a small family-run business based in Kent and Derbyshire, design truly stunning up-cycled jewellery pieces that use natural and prehistoric materials, as well as up-cycled military memorabilia such as Spitfire aircraft and salvaged parts of HMS Victory. All the pieces are carefully shaped before being set in 925 sterling silver to create something unusual, eye-catching and beautiful. But as well as these pieces, Louise and Zoe also create jewellery that not only harks to a bygone age,…
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Stafford Art Deco Architectural Gems
A trawl around some of the wonderful, surviving Art Deco buildings of Stafford Town Centre. Stafford College Tenterbanks Building This building was built in 1937 and was used as an American Hospital during World War two. It is an impressive, opposing building with so many art deco period details, including a range of carvings. This is a grade 2 listed building that spans Tenterbanks Street and then curves around Victoria Street. Former Odeon Cinema The former Stafford Odeon is now in the process of being transformed into a live music venue. It was opened in 1936 as one of the smallest Odeon’s in the chain, and was designed by…
