Mother of Pearl Jewellery

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) By the late nineteenth century, designers across Europe were looking at nature differently. The Art Nouveau movement brought flowers, leaves, insects and flowing lines into furniture, architecture, glass and jewellery. What interested its designers was the structure of nature as much as its appearance: the way a stem curves, the uneven edge of a leaf, the pattern of a wing. This changed the way materials were used. René Lalique, for example, became