Art Deco fascinates me in its forward-looking effort to push natural features towards abstraction, as here, in a design of delicate radiating ribs, recalling perhaps the spreading veins of palm leaves, yet regular & formal in execution, with an infill of grey mother of pearl
- of the three dyed variants I use, the one which displays the greatest range of iridescent effects, shimmering & refracting a range of subtle hues. An elegant & opulent cufflink, like the era that inspired it.