#wolfers

[tiaramania]

TIARA ALERT: Queen Mathilde of Belgium wore Queen Fabiola's Wolfers Tiara for the banquet during the state visit from Oman at the Palace of Laeken in Brussels, Belgium on 3 December 2024.

[detournementsmineurs]

Broche Art Nouveau "Chimère" attribuée à Wolfers en or, ailes émaillées et serties de diamants, corps et yeux en émeraudes, retenant un diamant et une perle dans sa gueule, circa 1900.

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[europesroyalsjewels]

Wolfers Necklace as Tiara ♕ Queen Mathilde

[boylerpf]

The maiden and peacock.... Phillippe Wolfers pendant brooch (1900-1902) found via @1stdibsjewels #antiquejewelry #vintagejewelry #peacock #antiquebrooch #maiden #figuralbrooch #artnouveaujewelry #artnouveau #wishitweremine #wolfers #phillippewolfers #luxuryjewelry #oneofakind #blastfromthepast #vintagejewelry https://www.instagram.com/p/CGxrfH_js76/?igshid=iagcgnn626gz

[ancienthairstyles]

Hair comb (1899-1900) by Philippe Wolfers from Maison Wolfers in Brussels, Belgium.

The Wolfers style during the Art Nouveau period was most famous for its use of swans and insects for necklaces and hair pins.

Hair combs were both decorative and practical. Combs like these have the ability to hold large sections of hair, ideal in the early 1900s large bun hairstyles. Wolfers also made one of the only (remaining) Belgian royal tiaras.

Brussels was the home of famed Art Nouveau jewelers Wolfers, but also Art Nouveau architect Horta and the fine art of lace making. The most expensive dresses were made by lace from either Brussels or Bruges.

[mote-historie]

Art Nouveau Multi-Gem and Enamel ‘Glycines’ Tour-de-Cou (Collar) by Philippe Wolfers, 1900.

Designed as five alternating carved watermelon tourmaline and opal wisterias, between purple and green plique-à-jour enamel scrolling leaf clusters, enhanced by scrolling garnet-set accents and ruby details, 34.0 cm, mounted in gold With maker's mark for Philippe Wolfers, signed Ex-Unique for 'Exemplaire unique'.

Christie’s.

[arthistorybrussels-blog]

Insects by Philippe Wolfers

The sixth day of #MuseumWeek revolves around nature and the way it has inspired humans throughout time. Our current temporary exhibition about  Wolfers Frères and Horta has quite a few art nouveau and art deco objects inspired by nature. The best known might be the Dragonfly, pictured below. In this blogpost we offer you a glimpse of several rarely seen pieces from our reserves.

Art nouveau, the style first developed by Victor Horta in 1893, was heavily inspired by nature. Just like Horta, Philippe Wolfers found based a lot of his work on plants and animals. In his summer residence Les Glycines in La Hulpe, Belgium, he was surrounded by nature. Nature, and in particular insects, was a prime and direct source of inspiration for the jewellery he made between 1902 and 1905.

A glimpse in our reserves:

Some of these jewels, like the Dragonfly, are on show in our temporary exhibition. In this blogpost we would like to show you some pieces from the Wolfers collection that are not on show at the museum. All of these drawings were made by Philippe Wolfers.