a modern bit of Bijoux history

The roots of the art of modern jewel are less antique than one can imagine. The term “bijoux” indicates the cultural and national context where the modern jewels’ idea was formed. Orientatively, the “modern bijoux” was born in France in the XVIII century. A culture of the bijoux that soon reaches England and that in just over two centuries becomes cult and trend in the United States, losing little by little the proper concrete value which defined the bijoux productions up to 1900.

Feb 01, 2009 | Have your say »