jewelry, textiles and costumes from Les Ballets Russes that were a big influence on fashion. "Ask three historians to define the term Art Deco, and you'll likely get three varying answers," design ...

Last December a Cartier Art Deco brooch estimated to sell for $100,000 to $150,000 went for almost $1.4 million at Christie’s New York. The piece—of natural pearl, tourmaline, ruby, onyx, and diamonds ...

But for jewelry experts the key to the high bid is this phrase in the catalog: “Cartier, Art Deco.” That period of design, between the wars, was marked by geometric lines and the influence ...

“Necessaire,” according to Antique Jewelry University ... I have often ogled the “necessaire” of the Art Deco period: lipstick cases by Cartier, cigarette holders by Van Cleef, a powder ...