Art Deco Diamond Rings

Replacing Art Nouveau's soft feminine natural lines and pastels with vividly and contrastingly colored floral excess, the Art Nouveau movement incorporated a cubist, austere, geometric, symmetrical slant on the Edwardian garland style designs. The cubists influence demanded fashionable cuts, baguette, emerald, triangular, shield, pear and marquise Art Deco Diamond Rings while colored gemstones such as sapphires, emeralds and rubies, not altogether avoided, maintained their mystique. Fine, faceted center-stones were clustered by cabochon or calibrated accent stones. And then there were the cocktail parties to show off the cocktail rings carried in a minaudière with the influential gem-set compact and cigarette case to supply a sleek, elegant cigarette holder.