Fine jewelry uses precious metals such as gold, silver or platinum as mounts for precious stones, fine stones or pearls. Rings, pendants, rivières of precious stones and earrings are just some of the masterpieces that jewelers can create.

Traditionally, jewels are hand-made by means of folding, deformation, welding and cutting of [Read more]

The first true metallurgical techniques seem to have originated in northeast Iran, before spreading out to the four corners of the globe.

From then on, processes developed, and man began forging heated metal or melting it in moulds. Soon, they equally granted importance to the decorative role of objects, by bestowing on them a particular [Read more]

The Metal Arts include many fields of expertise, from wrought iron to silversmithy. They are equally very ancient, for certain primitive works date back to Protohistoric times.

The very first creations were made from meteoric iron, gold, or silver, well before the elaboration of the first alloys.

In addition to ornaments, metal was [Read more]

Iron has been employed by artists for millennia. Indeed, well before the discovery of major deposits, meteoric iron found in nature was used to create ornaments or jewels.

Later, iron surfaced in India and could be used for imposing creations. It was equally employed in Scandinavia, where blacksmiths made magnificent swords out of it; [Read more]

Halfway between painting and sculpture, mosaics require the use of small pieces of stone, paste jewelry or ceramic called "tessera", bound together with cement. Once reunited, these pieces form a pictorial representation. Mosaics were frequently combined with frescoes, as they were often used to decorate the walls or vaults of [Read more]

For those interested in art nouveau, the surname of American Louis Comfort Tiffany is synonymous with objects of decoration, stained glass, and more particularly stained-glass lampshades.

Charles Lewis Tiffany, father of the American artist, was the founder of the famous jewelry house Tiffany's, whose shop window actress Audrey Hepburn [Read more]