Description
6.75" Mignon Faget Colonnade Sterling cuff Bracelet.
Firmly entrenched in the culture of her native city, Faget has a deep appreciation for New Orleans’s distinctive architectural structures. Faget’s response to the city’s architecture manifests itself in several of her major collections: Colonnade (1983), Reeded Banding (1983),
Romanesque Return (1990), Schema (1992), Cruxx (1993), and Ironworks (2006−2007). Colonnade
features monolithic elements of classical architecture, specifically the capitals of
Ionic and Corinthian columns. Faget’s recurring interest in the spiral design characteristic of
Ionic capitals first appeared in her spiral shell in Sea.
In Reeded Banding Faget extended the focus seen in Colonnade to include
the vertical elements of fluted columns.
Both Colonnade and Reeded Banding recall the simplified
architectural style of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867−1959). Romanesque Return, a large collection first designed in 1990 for philanthropists Phyllis and
