Masriera

Born as a son of a goldsmith and a painter in Barcelona, a blooming artistic city by the turn of the century, Luis Masriera inherited his grandfather's jewellery firm together with his brother and named it Masriera Hermanos (Masriera Brothers) in 1886. He then studied seventeenth-century Limoges enamel techniques under the famed enamellist Edward Lossier in the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He was greatly inspired by the works of René Lalique, which led him to melt down the entirety of his family's jewellery stock to create Art Nouveau pieces. In 1901 he debuted his Modernisme jewels, which were so successful that everything sold out within a week.

Luis Masriera 的父親是一位巴塞隆納金匠兼畫家，當地藝壇發展蓬勃，欣欣向榮。在世紀之交，Masriera與兄長繼承了祖父的珠寶公司，並於1886年將其重新命名為 Masriera Hermanos（Masriera Brothers）。之後，他在法蘭西藝術學院跟隨琺瑯大師愛德華・洛西耶（Edward Lossier）學習十七世紀 Limoges 琺瑯工藝。Masriera 受雷內・拉里克（René Lalique）的作品啟發，決定將公司所有庫存首飾融解再造，製作新藝術風格首飾。1901年，他推出首創的現代主義珠寶（Modernisme jewels），所有作品在一個星期內迅速售罄。