VO+ Magazine October 2024
A Journey Through the Gilded Age with Ray Griffiths
The definition of the Glided Age in reference to the thirty-year period between 1870 and 1900 was created in 1920 by writer Mark Twain, who thus wanted to discredit an era of concurrent great propensity and decadence and therefore of enormous social contrast in the States, and especially in New York, at the end of the 19th century, which then led to Art Nouveau. New York designer Ray Griffiths, has drawn certain stylistic features and techniques from the mood of that "golden age", such as an abundant use of enamels and stones, such as tsavorite and opal, as an "alternative" to diamonds. His atelier on Fifth Aveune has come up with a series of pieces with a deliberately vintage allure, such as the Gold Crownwork Oval Bangle (pictured), characterized by Crownwork, a technique created by Griffith himself that consists of a fine gold pattern that gives light and volume.
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