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Thursday, 2nd September 2004 (5884 views)

The American public is being given a glimpse of how the jewellery industry has developed in the last 100 years in a new show in New York.<BR/><BR/>Visitors to the 'Masterpieces of American Jewellery' exhibition can see over 200 necklaces and brooches charting a century of evolving tastes and fashions. <BR/><BR/>The jewellery exhibit is being run by the National Jewellery Institute and is due to run until January next year.<BR/><BR/>Ralph Esmerian, curator of the American Folk Art Museum exhibit, told the Associated Press that the show featured some of the older traits of the American jewellery trade - but retained the quality of workmanship that is still demanded today.<BR/><BR/>“American jewellers believed in the classical traditions and craftsmanship that came from Europe but they present a simplified version of classic,” he commented. <BR/><BR/>Among the highlights of the show - which encompasses all manner of styles from the Art Deco period of the 1920s to the modern ostentatious pieces - are the two 24-karat horse-head sculptures by Herbert Haseltine that open it.<img src="http://directnews.dehavilland.co.uk/dn.gif?feedid=196&itemid=3328546"/>

 

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