The Application And Expression Of Architectural Elements In Jewelry Design

The modern jewelry design is in an era of rapid development. There is a new trend of thought in jewelry design:Crossover study of other disciplines, better use of predecessors’wisdom.Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky said:"Architecture and craft distinguish from each other only in amount but quality." Architecture is composed of colorful big jewelries, while jewelry is walking architecture worn by people. Architectural art evolves in thousands of years. From the Parthenon Temple in Athens of ancient Greece, the medieval St. Mark’s basilica to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao of deconstruction, these buildings differ from material to the style, but all of them are full of great light of human wisdom. Building decoration, structure, technology, material, color, style and so on, all can cause people’s emotional resonance, and become a jewelry design source of inspiration.Jewelry, like architecture, is with ancient cultural heritage. Building elements have always been the most common expression objects in the jewelry culture in the whole world. Jewelry, like the concentrated construction of buildings, conveys the human pursuit of architectural beauty. There is a unique correlation between classic buildings and luxury jewelry. They all reflect people’s understanding of beauty in the same period, which shows the similar style. And there are something in common in sculpture, painting and calligraphy and inlay art, as well as the application of transparent materials and machinery.But with the rise of the industrial revolution, the architectural design has undergone earth-shaking changes with rapid development and extensive expression which are far beyond people’s imagination.Jewelry design draws lessons from the expression of architectural art, tries to make use of modeling elements, structural elements, decorative elements, layout elements and landscape culture of architectural art in jewelry design. So architectural art becomes a new inspiration of jewelry design, and opens up a new prospect of jewelry design.Since the architectural art in China is still in its infancy, and people’s enthusiasm for building is generally low, most of the jewelry designers are conservative when choosing architectural elements. So it’s the most important work to change the traditional way of selecting building elements in design of jewelry, to seek new expression methods of architectural elements, to excavate comprehensive architectural technology and architectural art.Since the architectural art is one of the most important part of practical design, the development trend of architectural design is closely related to the mass aesthetic, therefore, the history of architectural art and current thoughts of architectural design have good reference value to speculate on the future of jewelry design. In addition, new technologies, new structures and new materials of architecture can all bring more new thinkings to "traditional" jewelry design.