Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection

$50.00 at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

A visual celebration of jeweled masterworks from Paris in the Art Deco era.In the 1920s and 1930s, the mechanical purity of the machine age and striking contrasts of line, color, and material were reflected in objects for a new lifestyle. Smoky nightclubs, cocktails, décor for chic apartments, and dinner tables: all provided a new landscape for the designs of the great jewelry houses of Europe, with Paris as the superstar of cities. The gloom of war was replaced by an explosion of color or newly chic, risqué…