Charlotte Lynggaard's Midnight Tiara - mystery resolved Archived Message
Posted by ErikS on July 9, 2013, 6:20 am
I have just spoken to Charlotte Lynggaard about the Midnight Tiara and the head dress of the Grand Druid of Brittany. She told me she has never seen the image of the Grand Druid before. The design process was inspired by the leaves in her garden and in nature. With this tiara she wanted to make something like a fairytale, something never seen before. So she designed something you wear when the moonlight is there, in the middle of the night.
She also mentioned the Swedish illustrator John Bauer (1882-1918) as an inspiration. When you look at his work, which is typical for the turn of the century/art nouveau, it coincides with the heydays of Celtic revival, which used art nouveau as prominent style as well.
It is perfectly well possible that two people separated in time and space come up with something very similar. This happens in art all the time (especially if you take nature as inspiration, like art nouveau does), just as this happens in literature and language as in other art forms.