Tribal Art Deco: Osman Yousefzada's jewellery

There’s one thing that has always fascinated me about the Art Deco period and that’s the clear language of the forms this movement breathed into interior design objects, architecture and jewellery.

I’m particularly fond of jewellery designer Jacob Bengel who created pieces inspired by simple geometrical forms that even decades after still look amazingly modern.
 
Despite many contemporary designers tried to recreate Bengel’s forms in their jewellery, I don’t think many succeeded as well as Osman Yousefzada did. 

The young designer recently released a sort of capsule collection comprising four interesting pieces exclusively made for the Astley Clarke online jewellery boutique.

Yousefzada designed two rock crystal necklaces with sapphires in gold vermeil and matching rock crystal earrings and bracelet.

The elements that called back to my mind Bengel's designs when I first saw Yousefzada’s pieces are the wide snake chains used for the necklaces and bracelet, but also the rock crystal tiles interlinked by white gold vermeil bars set with brilliant cut blue sapphires that produce the surrealist effect - when seen from afar - of being domino pieces.

There seems to be also echoes of Bengel’s chromium bands or tubular wires with trapezium plaques, Galalith and chromium elements and toffee coloured cubes, or of his onyx and amazonite rectangular brooches.

Art Deco employed synthetic materials such as plastic, from bakelite to lucite, vitrolite, linoleum and formica, and metal, from chrome and stainless steel to aluminium and wrought iron. Yousefzada employed crystal instead of translucent plastic to create limpidity, yet the sober and geometrical style, the decorative articulation and dynamic abstractions and the objectivity of forms also calls to mind artworks from the futurism era such as Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space and more contemporary works such as Arnaldo Pomodoro’s sculptures based on volumes and perfect geometries.

The pieces also combine the same modernist tribalism from Yousefzada's "Tribal Bauhaus" collection (S/S 08) with the most impressive pieces by Naum Slutzsky, the metalworker and master goldsmith at the Weimar Bauhaus, who always remained faithful in his jewels to the theme of the cube and the geometric plate.

I'm now curious to see how the collection will develop in future and I'm wondering if Yousefzada will also start designing an accessory line. 

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[Vintage Ring]

I just love the art jewelery,because its different.The designs are classy.I loved them.I wish I could get them for my brother's marriage.

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[Engagement Rings]

I dont have words to express for this, in one word i will say simply great.