{"id":17156,"date":"2018-04-16T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T00:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefrenchjewelrypost.com\/\/?post_type=style&p=17156"},"modified":"2023-10-26T01:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T00:24:31","slug":"henri-vever-the-art-nouveau-jeweler","status":"publish","type":"style","link":"https:\/\/thefrenchjewelrypost.com\/en\/style\/henri-vever-the-art-nouveau-jeweler\/","title":{"rendered":"Henri Vever, the Art nouveau jeweler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though the name of Henri Vever was eclipsed by Ren\u00e9 Lalique’s, this Paris jeweler played a key role in Art nouveau<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Vever company, which finally closed in 1982, was at its peak at the turn of the 20thcentury. Coming from a line of jewelers based in Metz, the brothers Paul and Henri Vever set up in Rue de la Paix, garnering prizes at all the major exhibitions of the time, in Moscow, Brussels, Chicago and the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900. Their prestigious international customers included the Shah of Persia, Alexander III, Sadi Carnot and leading American entrepreneurs of the\u00a0Gilded Age<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Henri Vever the jeweler<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Mus\u00e9e des Arts D\u00e9coratifs<\/a> contains around a hundred pieces by the Vever company, donated in 1924 by the man himself at the same time as his remarkable collection of 250 French jewelry items, covering the period from the Revolution to 1900. As a craftsman, he contributed to the emergence of modern jewelry, excelled in the art of enameling, and used horn, ivory and opals, though less boldly than\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Lalique<\/a> (who worked for him until 1898).\u00a0He had what “some would call a decided preference for precious stones”<\/em> (Evelyne Poss\u00e9m\u00e9 curator at the Mus\u00e9e des Arts D\u00e9coratifs and of the gallery des Bijoux in the book “Ma\u00eetres Joailliers”). He was also inspired by nature, but would never feature any alarming creatures or withered elements. Unlike Ren\u00e9 Lalique, he remained highly conventional, and was always attentive to the wearable aspect of jewelry. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Henri Vever the collector<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The jeweler was perhaps also obscured by other facets of his personality. Curious and passionate, he was truly fascinated by his times. He was a recognized art lover and a first-rate collector<\/a>, seeking out not only jewelry but also antique pieces, including Persian and Moghul miniatures and rare books. In the 1880s, he began to buy Impressionist works by Monet, Sisley and others, some of which are now in the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay and Washington’s National Gallery. At the same time, he was keenly interested in Japanese prints from the Edo period, particularly those of Hokusai and Hiroshige, which he tracked down through dealers like Hayashi and Siegfried Bing<\/a>. Some of these ended up in the Yves Saint Laurent\/Pierre Berg\u00e9 collection.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Henri\u00a0Vever\u00a0the chronicler and historian<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Writing was another of his talents. He wrote a great deal\u00a0(sometimes under the pseudonym Maud Ernstyl), including personal reports, prefaces, catalogues and his masterpiece, “La Bijouterie fran\u00e7aise au XIXe si\u00e8cle”: a three-volume chronological account that has become a reference. In it, he describes the development of jewelry from 1800 to 1900 as shaped by social and economic change, together with life in workshops and new jewelry techniques and applications. He recreates the atmosphere of exhibitions and comments on the work of rivals like Fouquet<\/a>, Falize, Froment-Meurice,\u00a0Chaumet<\/a> and\u00a0Boucheron<\/a>. It is invaluable as an account of both jewelry and his times, because Vever the socialite lards his text with sparkling and often witty personal anecdotes that truly bring those years to life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Evelyne Poss\u00e9m\u00e9 believes that “Henri Vever’s name would certainly have been forgotten had he not written this indispensable book.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Worth reading: Henri Vever, “Champion de l\u2019Art nouveau” (Willa Z. Silverman)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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