Every age sets its own standard for beauty and style, but rarely has there been an era when glamour and self-display dominated the spirit of the time as they did in the 1930s and 1940s. In spite, or perhaps because, of the Depression and its aftermath, jewelry and fashion designers were busy creating new styles meant for a new elite–the …
Art Nouveau Jewelry
The innovative techniques and unusual materials of art nouveau jewelry
Facets and settings: Brilliant-cut Boston
All about the jewelry collection of the Museum of Fine Arts and its curator.
The life and jewelry of Gustav Manz
Fig. 1. Collage of drawings from a scrapbook of jewelry designs by Gustav Manz, c. 1910–1920. The scrapbook remains in Manz’s family. Collection of the Mathews family. Fig. 2. Gustav Manz (1865-1946) in his studio in a photograph of c. 1935. Collection of Robert Gustav Eastman. Fig. 3. Bracelet attributed to Manz, c. 1925. Yellow gold with colored sapphires …


