Tiffany & Co.’s ‘Vision & Virtuosity’ Exhibition Announced in London featuring an Extraordinary Display of Jewels, Craftsmanship and Creativity

Marking Tiffany and Co.’s 150th anniversary in London, ‘Vision & Virtuosity’, an astounding exhibition from this iconic jeweller, debuts at the Saatchi Gallery, London, from 10^th June – 19^th August, with complimentary tickets going live from this week. 

Bringing over 400 objects from the House’s archives to London, the immersive exhibition is a celebration of Tiffany’s authority as the purveyor of the world’s finest diamonds and a showcase of how two core values—vision and virtuosity—have guided the House for 185 years.

A visual chronicle of the storied jeweller since its founding in New York City in 1837, the exhibition is split into seven different chapters. Visitors will journey through everything from archival high jewellery designs, Tiffany’s famed window displays and its recently acquired Empire Diamond of over 80 carats to important relics of popular culture such as the original script from ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’.

An accompanying exhibition catalogue presents the exhibition’s highlights, showcasing creations by everyone from Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gene Moore to Jean Schlumberger, Elsa Peretti, Paloma Picasso, John Loring, and the House’s most influential visionaries. 

The 128.54 carat Tiffany Diamond in its current setting: a breath-taking necklace featuring over 100 carats of diamond

Additionally, an exclusive curation of artist collaborations and limited-release items in Tiffany Blue^® will be available at the gift shop. Collaborations include T-shirts and hoodies designed by Daniel Arsham, Tiffany & Co. x Wilson® footballs, Quartersnacks skateboards, Mellow Gemini vases, Krink paint markers, Caran d’Ache pen and pencil sets and Bellocq tea sets.

A series of ‘Late’ evenings, events, talks and workshops will feature across the summer as part of the exhibition. Featuring experts from the worlds of jewellery, art, design, fashion and culture, visitors can get even closer to the jewellery, with some even being available for try-ons. A once in a life-time opportunity to experience some of the world’s most beautiful jewels up close. Details on the programme to be released in due course.

Complimentary tickets are available now through the Tiffany & Co. exhibition app where you can also discover exhibition highlights, exclusive content and more. 

 

Tiffany & Co. White Edition

American jewelry and silverware company Tiffany & Co was founded in 1837 in New York. The company’s founders are Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young, who started the company named Tiffany, Young and Ellis selling stationery items. The name was changed into Tiffany & Co in 1953 when Charles Tiffany took control,and  made jewelry the company’s area of expertise. Tiffany published their first catalog, known as the ‘Blue Book’, in 1845 and has continued this practice up till today. Several famous and experienced designed currently create collections for Tiffany: Elsa Peretti, Paloma Picasso, Jean Schlumberger, Frank Gehry, Richard Lambertson and John Truex.

In the late 1980s, Tiffany & Co. entered the fragrance business. The first fragrance was released in 1987 – a floral perfume for women by perfumer Francois Demachy, simply called Tiffany. Two years letter Tiffany for Men was launched in 1989 and created by perfumer Jacques Polge. The flacons were designed by Pierre Dinand. Several other fragrances for men and women followed. In 2017 Tiffany & Co for women was launched. A beautiful fragrance created by Daniela Andrier. Guided by her passion for gemstones and jewelry, perfumer Daniela Andrier created a composition for Tiffany & Co inspired by their jewelry collections.

 

Tiffany & Co White Edition is a limited edition flacon that carries the famous Tiffany & Co Eau de Parfum composition from 2017, in which iris is placed center stage because Daniela considers it to be as precious as a diamond.

This modern, artisanal scent, with the noble iris at its heart, is as exhilarating and inspired as love itself. Tiffany & Co Eau de Parfum is a radiant and modern scent that opens with vibrant top notes of vert de mandarine. At its heart, the precious iris flower adds strength and femininity that grounds the composition with refinement and sophistication. The fragrance adds a sensual finish on the skin with warm nuances of patchouli wrapped in gentle musky notes.

 

The elegant, clean and modern scent is accompanied by a new flacon design. The new Limited Edition flacon is colored in milky white alluding to the color of snow, packaged just like Tiffany & Co’s iconic blue jewelry box, and is intended for the upcoming holidays.

Celebrate the joy of the season with this limited edition white holiday flacon, which can be personalized with custom engraving to make the perfect gift at Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany & Co White Edition is available as 50ml Eau de Parfum in a limited amount. Come into the beautiful world of Tiffany & Co.

 

 

 

 

Ladies perfect accessories

Vintage perfume purse sprays: from left: Lalique ‘de Lalique’, Jean Patou ‘Sublime’, Cartier, Lanvin (by Cartier), Cartier ‘Must’. Vintage creme/solid perfumes: Paloma Picasso, Jean-Louis Scherrer no.I, and Bulgari ‘Femme’ (Click photo to enlarge).

Now, with the holidays ahead, many stores try to seduce us with the most beautiful evening clothes and accessories for these days. And now that the clutch, that little chique ladies bag, is hotter then ever, you can find them in all price ranges. But what do you take all along in such a small bag? A lipstick….maybe a handkerchief. And don’t forget your perfume purse spray! Our grandmothers used them, our mothers, they are availble in countless models and shapes. Many luxury perfume brands have them in their range.

And now that the clutch is hotter then ever, the beautiful refilable perfume purse sprays are also making their ‘comeback’. That make them the perfect accessories for this season, and to the perfect gift…

Annick Goutal ‘Grand Amour’ 15ml Eau de Parfum refillable purse spray (Click photo to enlarge).

Balenciaga Eau de Parfum Purse Spray (Click photo to enlarge).

Chanel ‘Coco Mademoiselle’ Eau de Parfum Purse Spray set (Click photo to enlarge)

Chanel ‘No.5’ Eau de Parfum Purse Spray set (Click photo to enlarge).

Gucci ‘Flora’ Eau de Toilette Purse Spray set (Click photo to enlarge)

Calypso Figue Eau de Parfum purse spray (Click photo to enlarge)

Gucci ‘by Gucci’ Eau de Parfum purse spray (Click photo to enlarge).

Tory Burch Eau de Parfum Purse Spray Set (Click photo to enlarge).

Christian Dior Purse Spray Set (Click photo to enlarge).

Every holiday season it’s a suprise wich brand brings us what.  Great are the, mostly limited edition, cremer solid perfumes. They come in the most fantastic shapes, sometimes like a Fabergé egg or a small compact powder, as a charm or pill box. But always they turn out to be true collecors items. Famous are the ones from Estée Lauder almost every year.

Houbigant Quelques Fleurs Solid Compact Perfume (Clickphoto to enlarge).

Apothecary Cherry Blossom Solid Perfume Charm (Click photo to enlarge).

Crabtree & Evelyn: Evelyn Rose Solid Perfume (Click photo to enlarge)

Marc jacobs Daisy Solid Perfume Ring (Click photo to enlarge)

by Jean Amr

Bold cuffs take center stage.

As this summer statement jewelry continues to trend….

In a famous photo taken in 1977 at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan, the perennially stylish Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis can be seen arm-wrestling Muhammad Ali.  But it’s not the fashion icon’s toothy grin, or her off-the-shoulder gown, or her embellished earrings that stand out the most, it’s the hammered yellow gold Van Cleef & Arpels cuff on her wrist. The quintessential first lady so favored the piece of jewelry that she wore it throughout the 1970s and 1980s, igniting an unprecedented fervor for cuffs among fashion’s glitterati. It was not only Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis that made the sales raise, also Princess Caroline of Monaco and other celebs did. When the Princess showed up with her Cartier Love Bracelet, sales went up…..

I Love: Rabinovich, black leather, steel bracelet (Click photo to enlarge).

Rabinovich, purple leather, steel bracelet, availble in a lot of colors (Click photo to enlarge).

Bvlgari, Sterling silver, Leather bracelet, availble in many colors (Click photo to enlarge).

A true timeless classic. Not only for horse lovers! Albanu bracelet made of horse hair and sterling silver. Availble in many colors, models and 18k gold (Click photo to enlarge).

Prince Bernard had one. Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan had one. Albanu, loved by many Royals and movie stars since 1928! Albanu bracelet made of elephant hair and 18k yellow gold. They are availble in a vèry large range of models (Click photo to enlarge).

Today cuffs are making a comeback in a variety of shapes and unique materials. Sometimes simple, sometimes precious. Basic wide styles can be worn on their own to create a more tailored, minimalistic look for work, while those with an experimental bent can mix and match skinnier versions. Add some instant edge to an outfit by rocking a double wrap leather cuff with oversized rivets and studded hardware, or up the ante by donning multiple metal bands in alternating widths on each wrist.

What some friends of mine have with shoes, I’ve got t with watches and bracelets! I realy love my Bvlgari Alveare and Parentesi, but my Cartier Love bracelet is my daily wear, that I many times combine with one of my Rabinovich leather bracelets. I’ve got many of them! They are vèry affordable, and vèry stong! Taking a shower with my Albanu, is no problem at all! I’ve got one that’s over 40 years old, and its still as new! Taking a shower with a leather bracelet is not the advice you would give someone, but my Rabinovich bracelets are still doing great, after 2 years of showering. And that for that price!

Tory Burch double wrap logo stud bracelet in blood orange, other colors availble (Click photo to enlarge).

A true Tiffany & Co classic! Elsa Peretti’s Sterling Silver Bone Cuff bracelet. It’s also availble in 18k gold (Click photo to enlarge).

Tiffany & Co. Paloma Picasso’s knot bracelet in leather and sterling silver (Click photo to enlarge).

Hermès Black Leather Wide Bracelets with 18K Pink Gold Turn Buckle (Click photo to enlarge).

 

Bvlgari Alveare 18k Yellow and White Gold Bracelet (Click photo to enlarge).Van Cleef & Arpels ‘Ludo’ Art Deco bracelet, Paris, 1939, yellow 18k gold, rubies and star rubies in mystery setting (Click photo to enlarge).

Cartier ‘Juste un Clou’ 18ct pink-gold bracelet, also availble in white and yellow gold, with or without diamonds or other precious stones (Click photo to enlarge).

Just remember to stick to the cardinal rule of accessorizing: Don’t overdo it. And, whether you select a classic leather cuff, bejeweled medallion or retro-inspired resin style, be sure to make a selection that speaks to you or evokes an emotion when you wear it.

For more information:

Albanu at selected stores. See http://http://www.albanu.mc

Bvlgari at Bvlgari Boutiques, online and at selected stores See: http://http://www.bulgari.com

Cartier at Cartier Boutiques, online and at selected stores. See: http://http://www.cartier.com

Van Cleef & Arpels at Van Cleef & Arpels Boutiques. See: http://http://www.vancleefarpels.com

Hermès at Hermès Boutiques, online and selected stores. See: http://http://www.hermes.com

Rabinovich at Jumelle Juwelier and other selected stores. See: http://www.jumelle.nl/

Tiffany & Co at Tiffany & Co Boutiques and selected stores. See: http://http://www.tiffany.com

Tory Burch at Tory Burch Boutiques. See: http://http://www.toryburch.com

by Jean Amr

Tiffany & Co New York minute

Continuing a stealthy turnaround in its design vision, last month Tiffany & Co announces its intention to put watch-making centre stage, with the launch of a new collection of New York-designed timepieces powered by Swiss movements.

Though overshadowed by its standing as a jeweller and producer of ever-popular designs by visionaries such as Jean Schlumberger, Paloma Piccaso and Elsa Peretti, Tiffany & Co’s understanding of the business of watch-making is impressive, with roots dating back to its 19th century Geneva manufacture. That means that when it comes to horological prowess, it knows more than most luxury houses about how to build a watch from the base-plate up.

One of my personal favorites: Tiffany & Co Atlas Men’s watch in 18K yellow gold (Click photo to enlarge).

Its John Loring-designed timepieces from the 1980s and 1990s include, arguably, some of the most visionary watch designs of the modern era. Loring, Tiffany & Co’s current design director emeritus, helmed the design department for 30 years from 1979 to 2009. Key models of his creative tenure include the Atlas watch, notable for its relief-style Roman numerals that start on the dial then stretch out across the bezel.

Decades before fashion cottoned on to the chic watch as a luxury accessory, Loring had sensed a desire for less formal designs, creating a sports-luxe horological offering for women he knew, Paloma Picasso, among them.

Some models of the Tiffany & Co CT60 (Click photo to enlarge).

The new Tiffany CT60 collection taps into a more classic period of the New York house’s watch-making past. The key model, directly inspired by a Tiffany watch presented to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, is handsome, if a little too perfectly so. Its silver powder numerals and traditional Swiss finishes, sunray dial, Côtes de Genève, colimaçon and perlage engraving, may be a tad too ‘vintage’ but they serve to remind the wearer of a certain horological authority.

The Tiffany & Co East West is the real star of the new collection. The 1940s feel is there but, with creative input and jewellery thinking from Tiffany’s current design director, Francesca Amfitheatrof, it harks back to the visionary Loring days.

The ‘East West’ invites you to read time across the wrist, as though it were an identity bracelet (Click photo to enlarge).

A way of ‘reading’ your watch that used before by Cartier and Tiffany & Co, was populair in some professions in the 30’s and 40’s. Rather then read the time vertically, you are directed to read it across the wrist, as if the watch were an identity bracelet. The fact that it suits anybody bodes well for the new generation of Tiffany & Co watch design.

by Jean Amr

Tiffany & Co at Via Condotti

Famous Tiffany & Co blue box with white ribbon 

Great news! Now you have another reason to plan a trip to Roma at the end of this year, then some cultural stuff. In the fall of 2015 world famous jeweler Tiffany & Co will be opening a grand new luxury boutique at the Via Condotti, Roma.

This exciting opening is a special part of a European love story that is only just beginning.

Tiffany & Co

Like other grand luxury Tiffany & Co boutique’s they will sell amazing jewels in gold with or without precious stones. Designer jewels from Paloma Picasso, Jean Schlumberger or Elsa Peretti. You can also find a large collection of sterling silver jewelery (very affordable), watches, and lots of accessories, like picture frames, crystal porcelain, fragrances and countless more.. have been able to buy a little piece of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Reasons enough to buy a little piece of Breakfast at Tiffany’s

All wrapped in their famous blue box with white ribbon…. for your next Christmas??

Mon Rouge! Mon Parfum! The style of personality

Few manage to outgrow famous parents. To outsiders it may seem fantastic to be the offspring of a legend, but the children themselves often end up with the psychiatrist in search of their own identity without being compared over and over again to the much more brilliant father or mother (or both!).

A woman’s own style is more important to a woman than ever-changing fashion styles that other designers impose on her.

Paloma Picasso

Paloma Picasso has never had much trouble with that. As the daughter of Pablo Picasso, according to experts the most brilliant painter of this century, she has always chosen her own path. And in this way has gradually become just as famous as her father. Design has always been in Paloma’s blood. Not only her father’s creative genius played a role in this, but also her mother, French painter Françoise Gilot, and her grandfather, Emile Gillot; he designed and manufactured perfumes. As a little girl she spent days in his laboratory playing with fragrance and coloring ingredients.

She is best known for her jewelry collections for Tiffany & Co. and the perfume Mon Parfum, of which she also designed the flacon herself. Sophisticated and sensual, Mon Parfum is an extraordinarily stunning creation: a perfect example of the so sophisticated ‘Chypre’ category. At the age of three, she only wanted to go to school on the condition that she could wear red nail polish, and later red lipstick. That was allowed. And so it came to be: Mon Rouge. The blood red lipstick that Paloma Picasso would bring to the market years later. ‘To let other women enjoy that beautiful red’.

Her fragrance was intended, so Paloma Picasso explained, ‘for strong women like herself’. And for the packaging, Paloma Picasso Mon Parfum took, what else? …her signature red, black and gold.

In the top of this complex fragrance, you’ll be greeted by bergamot, lemon, hyacinth, angelica, ylang ylang and touches of clove. At its heart, a bursting bouquet of flowers: rose de Mai, jasmine, iris (orris) and lily of the valley. Mon Parfum also offers a tremendous ‘sillage’, or trail, and lasts for hour after beguiling hour on the skin, rounded out by a blend of oak moss, vetiver, patchouli, civet, amber, musk, cedarwood, tobacco and sandalwood.

30 years on, Mon Parfum is loved by women all over the world, and the men who get close to them. Paloma Picasso once described her vision of fragrance: ‘In the same way that a jewel can fill your eyes with wonder, fragrance can intoxicate the senses and reveal unknown pleasures and new sensations. This ornament becomes an integral part of your personality.’