Paris Exhibition Celebrates Art Deco Jewelry

"A jewelry exhibition at Les Arts Décoratifs that kicked off March 19, 2009 is billed as the first show ever dedicated to a niche band of jewelry designers who, having bloomed in the Thirties, straddled the Art Deco and Modernist periods. The exhibition culminates in a selection of treasures by the period's Place Vendôme giants, from a 1931 gold bracelet inspired by pointy Chinese hats made by Van Cleef & Arpels for Paris' Colonial Exhibition in 1931, to a 1934 modernist reversible bracelet by Boucheron."