Although modern jewelry making era begun in the 1940’s, there were new Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles adopted from1890’s that showed new artistic values which in turn influenced the way jewelry looks now. Art Nouveau is a style which focuses on the female form and puts an emphasis on color. The more often shapes were orchids, irises, pansies, vines, swans, peacocks, snakes, dragonflies, mythological creatures and the female silhouette.

    Art Deco covered the period between 1920’s and 1930’s and saw an increase in simple shapes of jewelry, mainly because the political tensions of that between wars era, where jewelry was seen as a form of decadence. In Art Deco new materials appeared, like plastic and aluminum.

    Modern times jewelry making begun in late 1940’s, just after World War II ended and introduced jewellery like a form of wearable art, making it a mass market product as new materials appeared and replacement artificial stones begun to emerge. Culture had a big role in the development of different jewelry styles, one notable example is the bling-bling style popularized by hip-hop and rap artists.

    The technical progress of CAM/CAD (Computer Aided Design) made possible very complex forms that can be reproduced in large scale. Maybe that’s why Jewelry is not a sign of statute anymore as it was in past centuries.

    Modern jewelry pendant

    Modern jewelry pendant