Author - Storjohann

Viennese ball nights 2019/2020. Everything you’ll need for the grand appearance…

The great Viennese ball tradition belongs so inseparably to the capital of Austria as the Ferris wheel in the “Prater" and the world-famous "Fiaker". In the most splendid of all European capitals, with a seemingly endless charm, the traditions of celebration are still alive today like nowhere else. The ball season, which originated in imperial Austria in the 17th century, is still the most longed for time of the year in Vienna. Traditionally, the carnival season also opens the 11th...

The history of the engagement

The engagement as a ceremony, whether large or small, is of course not as old as love itself. Historically, since antiquity, the man has been cultivating the custom of permanently bonding to a wife / partner through engagement. For centuries, the act of engagement has given the beloved one a binding promise to marry him and spend life together until death. Traditionally, the betrothed willing to give his love on this occasion a ring. Going back to Jewish and Greek antiquity,...

Antique pearl jewellery is always modern – Antique Jewellery Berlin

The pearls are back! Oh, were they ever gone? The big comeback of the pearl in jewellery design shows, how timeless and modern antique jewellery really is. Of course, every trend comes back someday – this is a wonderfully unplannable law in the fashion and lifestyle world. But why should you covet only the copies of the style icons today if we offer the originals? Celebrity fashion designers and personalities such as Coco Chanel, adorned with pearls, are already remembered...

The Scheunenviertel – Antique Jewellery Berlin is in the middle of it.

Our shop in Berlin-Mitte is located in the so-called Scheunenviertel (barn area). The history of this neighborhood is mostly tragic, marked by bitter poverty and great suffering of its inhabitants. The district got its name from the big hay barns, which were built in the 17th century for reasons of fire safety outside the Berlin city walls, near Alexanderplatz. Here lived only the poorest part of the society, such as the farm workers. In the 18th century, the royally arranged...

Antique Jewellery Berlin welcomes Valentine’s Day on Febrauary 14.

Valentine's Day is actually easy to plan. Like Christmas and New Year, he falls on the same day every year: the 14th of February. Thanks to Saint Valentine, this is the day of all lovers in the world. Romantically inclined people, to whom most of us probably want to be counted, plan to spend a lot of time with their sweetheart on this day. Traditionally, you give your sweetheart beautiful flowers, that will surely make one feel happy in the...

Art déco at Antique Jewellery Berlin – the simple elegance in 2019.

Dear Customers, your team from Antique Jewellery Berlin wishes you all a happy and healthy new year! Together we hope for an exciting as well as harmonious year with perfectly set highlights – and if possible, many of them! We for our part in the last year we have looked very closely and listened well. In which direction do the wishes and interests of our customers go? In many cases, a full-blown passion developed, for instance when discovering our online...

Love – 365 days of season.

When is the time perfect for love, family and future planning? We mean emphatically: just always! It seems that in the colder seasons, the desire for emotional warmth is greater and even the "strong sex" increasingly falls into a cozy mood. But that's all subjective. The fact is: Love is most beautiful in the now. The most exalted feeling that two people can share is omnipresent. Who met the love does not want to keep it to him/herself. It is...

Nature Transformed – French Art Nouveau Horn Jewellery. Small Exhibition 29.09.2018 – 27.10.2018

Nature Transformed - French Art Nouveau Horn Jewellery Small exhibition in our shop. 29.09.2018 – 27.10.2018 Daily 11:00 am – 07:00 pm René Lalique, the great master of Art Nouveau (in Germany called Jugendstil), introduced horn at the turn of the century as an organic material in the circle of high-quality jewellery. His internationally respected contemporaries Georges Pierre and Elizabeth Bonté at the same time made horn jewellery. These three visionaries, as well as other highly gifted carvers and creators of perfectly thought-out horn...

Antique jewellery – An infinite love.

Antique jewellery is much more than only beautiful. It is a passionate attitude to life! Antique jewellery transports everything that today's society longs for: timelessness, sustainability and individuality. The pleasant feeling of something nostalgic, that everyone likes to feel, mates with the amazing insight, that everything that is praised today as individual and innovative, ultimately had its origins many decades ago. In the past epochs of world and art history naturally other values were valid. Such as they are today...

Pride Berlin 2018 – A journey through time

The struggle for personal rights, recognition and equal rights in society has been fought in many places for centuries. The so called Pride movement is one of the longest lasting and still restless active actions. It is about the equal rights and the acceptance of homosexuals in the world. There is evidence of the beginning of this movement back to the Victorian era. But it were the decades of Art Deco, the 1920s in Germany, and the 1930s in the...

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