Modern Stud Hoop Earrings
2010s Turkish Modern Hoop Earrings
Gold, 14k Gold
Vintage 1950s British Modern Hoop Earrings
Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Gold, 18k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
1990s Unknown Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Emerald, Sapphire, 18k Gold, Silver
Vintage 1950s British Modern Hoop Earrings
Rose Gold, White Gold, Yellow Gold
2010s Italian Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, White Diamond, White Gold, Yellow Gold, Platinum
2010s Italian Modern Stud Earrings
Yellow Gold, 18k Gold, Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, Blue Sapphire, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Hoop Earrings
Blue Topaz, Diamond, Rhodolite, Peridot, Garnet, Citrine, Amethyst, Yell...
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Amethyst, Topaz, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Gold, 18k Gold, White Gold
1990s Unknown Modern Hoop Earrings
Amethyst, Citrine, Tourmaline, 18k Gold
2010s Indian Contemporary Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Sapphire, Gold, 18k Gold, White Gold
Early 2000s Retro Hoop Earrings
White Diamond, 18k Gold, White Gold
2010s Indian Contemporary Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Ruby, Gold, 18k Gold, White Gold
21st Century and Contemporary North American Hoop Earrings
Diamond, 14k Gold, Enamel
21st Century and Contemporary North American Artist Hoop Earrings
14k Gold, Enamel
2010s Thai Modern Hoop Earrings
Zircon, Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Gold, 18k Gold, White Gold
2010s Turkish Modern Hoop Earrings
Amethyst, Gold, 14k Gold
2010s Belgian Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, White Gold, 18k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Hoop Earrings
Amethyst, Iolite, Tourmaline, Gold, 18k Gold
2010s American Contemporary Hoop Earrings
14k Gold, Yellow Gold
20th Century American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, 18k Gold, White Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Contemporary Hoop Earrings
Diamond, White Diamond, 10k Gold, White Gold
21st Century and Contemporary British Stud Earrings
2010s Indian Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, 14k Gold, White Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
White Diamond, Yellow Diamond, 18k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Platinum
1990s Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, 14k Gold, White Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Ruby, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Ruby, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Ruby, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Ruby, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Ruby, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Ruby, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Ruby, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Ruby, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, Ruby, Platinum
2010s Indian Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, 14k Gold, White Gold
2010s Indian Modern Hoop Earrings
Diamond, White Gold, 14k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Sapphire, Pink Sapphire, Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
Vintage 1950s British Modern Stud Earrings
Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Hoop Earrings
Sapphire, Blue Sapphire, Pink Sapphire, Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
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A Close Look at modern Jewelry
Rooted in centuries of history of adornment dating back to the ancient world, modern jewelry reimagines traditional techniques, forms and materials for expressive new pieces. As opposed to contemporary jewelry, which responds to the moment in which it was created, modern jewelry often describes designs from the 20th to 21st centuries that reflect movements and trends in visual culture.
Modern jewelry emerged from the 19th-century shift away from jewelry indicating rank or social status. The Industrial Revolution allowed machine-made jewelry using electric gold plating, metal alloys and imitation stones, making beautiful jewelry widely accessible. Although mass production deemphasized the materials of the jewelry, the vision of the designer remained important, something that would be furthered in the 1960s with what’s known as the “critique of preciousness.”
A design fair called the “Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes” brought global attention to the Art Deco style in 1925 and gathered a mix of jewelry artists alongside master jewelers like Van Cleef & Arpels, Mauboussin and Boucheron. Art Deco designs from Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels unconventionally mixed gemstones like placing rock crystals next to diamonds while borrowing motifs from eclectic sources including Asian lacquer and Persian carpets. Among Cartier’s foremost design preoccupations at the time were high-contrast color combinations and crisp, geometric forms and patterns. In the early 20th century, modernist jewelers like Margaret De Patta and artists such as Alexander Calder — who is better known for his kinetic sculptures than his provocative jewelry — explored sculptural metalwork in which geometric shapes and lines were preferred over elaborate ornamentation.
Many of the innovations in modern jewelry were propelled by women designers such as Wendy Ramshaw, who used paper to craft her accessories in the 1960s. During the 1970s, Elsa Peretti created day-to-night pieces for Tiffany & Co. while designers like Lea Stein experimented with layering plastic, a material that had been employed in jewelry since the mid-19th century and had expanded into Bakelite, acrylics and other unique materials.
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Finding the Right earrings for You
In the United States, ear piercing didn’t really become popular until the 1950s and ‘60s, but our desire for a dazzling pair of vintage earrings has deeper roots than that. In fact, wearing earrings actually goes back thousands of years, and you can find many tangible connections between now and then in how we continue to talk about these treasured accessories.
Women wore ornamental earrings — studs and hoops at the very least — in Ancient Egypt, which is home to mines that are among the earliest sources of emeralds in the world. Emerald earrings are highly prized today, and their quality lies in their rich, saturated color. The highest-quality emeralds are green or bluish-green. Earrings worn by the affluent in early Roman civilizations were set with precious stones such as diamonds and pearls, and a clean-looking pop of pearl on the front of the lobe is as timeless as ever. Hoop earrings are imbued with symbolism and cultural significance for many, and on view in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Ancient Near Eastern Art Gallery is a pair of simple gold hoops from Mesopotamia dating to between 2600 and 2500 B.C.
Today, ear piercing is very popular all over the world, and, as a result, it is difficult to overstate how much everyone pines for a good pair of earrings — modernist drop earrings, glamorous Victorian hoops, geometrically complex chandelier earrings, you name it. Sure, jewelry trends and the fashion darlings of social media come and go, but earrings have a staying power that seems impenetrable: The still-strong love affair between British royals and Cartier earrings is more than a century old, glossy 1970s hoops from legacy houses such as Bulgari and Van Cleef & Arpels remain the statement makers they’ve always been and although people have been stacking earrings for many moons, the allure of an expertly mismatched stack of charms and studs still feels fresh and new.
While there is no shortage of modern earring designs to choose from, the classics, like coral earrings, Art Deco–style earrings and diamond drop earrings are still heavy hitters. On 1stDibs, find a wide range of antique, new and vintage earrings today.