White Gold Locket Produced In The Profile Of A Rose

July 31st, 2011 | admin | Jewelry

Legendary Window Feted on a White Gold Locket

A decorative rose set in a window panel reflects the sunlight filtering right through to produce a superb effect in a room created by the famed designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh. This iconic image is featured on a pendant or white gold locket by Ola Gorie.

The architect and interior designer Rennie Mackintosh generally utilized coloured glass into his home furniture and interiors in the early 1900s. He designed households together with the interior furnishings for a variety of rich patrons and created buildings like the Glasgow School of Art.

In the Rose Boudoir he placed the rose image of a feminine figure holding a rose which encouraged the colour schema of white, silver and pink together with the cosmetic detailing of several pieces for the room he called the Rose Boudoir. He together with his wife Margaret Macdonald exclusively designed the room setting for the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin in 1902. Go look at our jewelry website and discover Rennie Mackintosh’s rose motif.

Rose Pattern Etched in a White Gold Locket

You can step inside a wonderful room that features roses by Rennie Mackintosh and Macdonald in the House for an Art Lover in Bellahouston Park, near Glasgow Airport. It could easily be renamed House for a Rose Lover. The dining-room is filled with this motif which decorates the chiseled open fireplace and stencil creations, the rugs and stained glass inserts of the sliding doors to the stemmed rose details on the sideboard as well as the hand-blown pendant lamps. Hung around the walls are a succession of gesso panels by Macdonald, illustrating the lifespan of the rose. It’s no surprise that Ola chose this icon for her white gold locket, necklace and brooch.

The House for an Art Lover was created by Rennie Mackintosh and Macdonald for a German contest in 1901. Their theme was disqualified because of incomplete submission but was highly praised and distributed around Europe. This residential home never was seen by the couple who specially designed it.

It wasn’t until 1987 that Glasgow civil engineer Graham Roxburgh introduced the very idea of constructing the House for an Art Lover. He got together a workforce of talented modern architects, builders, designers and craftspeople, cialis no rx who could construct this jewel of a building and interior decoration. It was finally constructed in 1994. It’s a weird feeling, wandering around the rooms buy Extendaquin online the original designers never ever saw.

Our jewellery site has extra details of Ola Gorie’s Rose Boudoir design. It does work very well as a white gold locket.

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