Bird of Happiness (Jewelry House MOISEIKIN) Image credit: Russian Jeweller
In Moscow, the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts (VMDPNI) on Delegatskaya Street opened an exhibition of decorative, applied and jewelry art "Easter Traditions", dedicated to the work of Carl Faberge.
The jewelry of C. G. Faberge - a talented entrepreneur, head of the dynasty and supplier of the Russian Imperial Court - amazed with the virtuosity of execution and originality of the idea, and his masters worked at a level close to perfection. Their high art continues to inspire contemporary jewelers.
The opening of this exhibition is timed to the celebration of Easter - one of the main Orthodox holidays. Traditionally, the finest Easter gift was an elaborately decorated egg, and the Faberge firm was famous for its custom-made "Easter surprise gifts" for both the Russian Imperial Court and the wider community.
As the Easter theme is the main one, the exhibition presents Easter eggs created by modern craftsmen and jewelry companies that continue the traditions of the past. Among them: ArgentoV jewelry house, RODIS jewelry factory, Noval Art creative association, James Boutique, MOISEIKIN jewelry house, Konstantin Chaikin manufactory, as well as master jewelers Valery Voronkov, Mikhail Milyutin, Sergey Kolomiytsev, Oleg Shapkin, Oleg Tarutin, Leonid Shashkov, Olga and Lyudmila Mironov, Alexander and Alla Kozlov.
Among the exhibits, it is worth mentioning the souvenir "BIRD OF HAPPINESS" from the Yekaterinburg Jewelry House MOISEIKIN - undoubtedly a unique work of jewelry and stone-cutting art; an Easter egg for the 800th anniversary of Alexander Nevsky by S. Kolomiytsev and D. Kotlyarovsky; smart watch from Konstantin Chaikin.
The walls of the exhibition hall are also decorated with works in the Florentine mosaic technique by stone-cutting masters - Varda Pavlova, Damir Devyatov and Lyubov Cheban.
The artistic merits of the works presented at the exhibition, combined with the best precious materials, modern technologies and new ideas, indicate that Russia is rich not only in natural resources, but also in craftsmen who remember the traditions of Faberge and strive to restore the former glory of Russian jewelry art.
Galina Semenova for Rough&Polished
