Art Deco Rings

Originally emerging as a reaction to Art Nouveau, the end of the Art Deco period took a more decorative phase toward a simpler, bolder approach typical of the 1930s as Art Deco Rings emerged in higher profile. In 1903 Josef Hoffman founded the Wiener Werkstatte, a workshop that produced some of the earliest Art Deco designs. These new concepts illustrated a new style based on a simplification of the early 19th-century neoclassical Biedermeier style, peasant art or folk art, quite the antithesis of Art Nouveau. In 1910, the �Ballet Russes de Serge Diaghilev' presented Scheherazade with Oriental sets of dazzling, extravagant colors, creating a demand for period exoticism.