by Kate Youde May 10 2024
The two markets, and how they reach their public, are proving more and more complementary
“Jewellery, if it’s successful, just like art when it’s successful, touches you emotionally”
Ute Decker
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Elisabetta Cipriani’s eponymous London gallery specialises in jewellery by artists and her clients are art collectors. She says, today, people want to wear a one-off statement piece with a story and suggests the rise in prominence of artists’ jewellery over the past decade has influenced the wider market.
Artist jeweller Ute Decker’s sculptural pieces, including bimetal earrings inspired by the work of Man Ray, featured in Cipriani’s selling exhibition — Jewellery by Sculptors and Painters — in Venice last month.
Decker believes the higher profile of some “artistic” jewellers is down to “a certain zeitgeist” for individuality, instead of people simply looking to buy large diamonds. “Jewellery, if it’s successful, just like art when it’s successful, touches you emotionally,” she says. “It stirs something, it gets you maybe to think, it engages you.”
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