Thursday, July 14, 2011

Engagement Gift Ideas: Choosing Art Deco Rings

By Irene Krey


After talking about the trendy impression of New York with Harry Winston engagement rings, at this point we'll revisit the fantastic thing about classic yet electic model of Art Deco engagement rings. However before we move ahead, let's firstly get to know how Art Deco became great engagement gift ideas because of its styles and allure. Here are the basic principles of how Art Deco's limelight began. Art Deco began its heritage in the 1920s and rapidly grew to become so much favored 10 years after because of its architectural designs until the World War II era. What encouraged its attractive and exceptional art were a mixture of interior decorating, architectural mastery, visual arts, painting, and more than anything else vogue and jewelry. That's where these preciously kept pieces of jewelry e.g. engagement and wedding rings, bracelets, necklaces, etc have also increased sales in a number of estates and expensive jewelry stores.

Its great concept was created from the mathematical geometric shapes making it a lot more diverse compared to the other antique fine jewelry and that's the reason why it's called "electic". This has motivated more and more fashion designers and artists to supply more products while adding other elements in them for instance metals, gemstones and diamonds from different countries. Styles differ from creations of Babylon, Ancient Egypt, Greco-Rome, Africa and Aztec Mexico.

Additionally, Art Deco type influences have already been expressed in faceted and crystalline forms with ornamental Futurism and Cubism. If you take a look, they were mostly zigzagged, jumbled, trapezoidal and geometrical.

Unquestionably if you appreciate a more distinctive stroke of pieces of jewelry, status and treasure, Art Deco precious jewelry will probably be another attractive experience as it's intended to portray the class of the recent years. Great Art Deco engagement rings use pearls, colored stones, diamonds in platinum, while/yellow gold settings. Unlike today's common gold rings, most Art Deco engagement rings widely utilize a mixture of white, yellow gold and platinum with colored stones just like ruby, sapphire, emerald and diamonds to stress its beauty.

Currently, even though it's a bit lost there after 1900s in the scene for many fine jewelry lovers, this is still going to be a great addition in your wardrobe or as one of engagement gift ideas to your beloved to leave a new thing in fashion. With its considered "newfound" fashion sense, Art Deco rings gives every man and woman a more impressive look to merge an uncommon ring with a number of other pieces so that it is dramatic yet elegant overall. The contrast of colors together affixed to a metal ring make these really distinctive pieces.




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