Tiffany lady biography

The blog was built by the Tiffany History The History of the Tiffany Jewelry House began in the year when the summer Charles Lewis Tiffany and his friend John Young opened a small shop of stationery and haberdashery in New York. On the first day, they earned only $ 5, but young people could not even imagine that the whole world would soon speak about them. In the photo: Charles Lewis Tiffany.

How it all began Charles Lewis Tiffany was born in a wealthy family of a textile manufacturer and did not know what material difficulties were. However, from childhood he wanted to make money on his own and at the age of 15 every day after school he helped his father in his store, and at the age of 18 he became a manager at the mill. By the age of 25, Charles realized that he was already ready to open his own business.

He took dollars from his father and, together with school comrade John Yang, opened a small store in New York, where leather products and stationery were sold. The shop was on Broadway and after a while it established itself as a popular shopping center for fashionable ladies, looking for jewelry and a Victorian -style watch. A few years later, the assortment of the store expanded, silver products and then gold began to appear.

In the photo: the first Tiffany store. After this event, Tiffany bought out shares from the companion and renamed the company. When the brand became popular, Charles decided to focus exclusively on the production of high -quality jewelry with precious stones. Tiffany jewelry was popular among representatives of the highest authorities and celebrities. Mary Todd put him on the inauguration ceremony in the year.

In the photo: Mary Todd Lincoln in a pearl set. Pearl set. Blue Box Jewelry Trends come and go, but the Tiffany Blue Blue Blue Casket and the white satin ribbon - this is that which remains an unchanged attribute of the company from the year. Once the popular New York Times wrote: “There is such a thing that you will not buy from Tiffany for the arbitrarily big money - he can only give it to you.

This is a box for its jewelry. ” Indeed, many visitors to the store asked to sell them boxes, but Charles Lewis Tiffany did not agree to any money. Charles's ability to properly present his products helped him a lot to promote the business, because Blue Box has become a symbol of luxury and exclusivity. In the photo: Blue Box by Tiffany. During the filming of the film “Breakfast at Tiffany”, 40 armed guards who watched the safety of jewelry and Blue Box were on duty in the New York store.

The color was so loved by society that it began to be associated with Tiffany and even standardized according to the Pantone system. Tiffany diamond Tiffany received an international recognition at the World Exhibition in Paris and won the main prize for silver products. In the same year, the company acquired an amazing unprocessed South African fantasy canary diamond weighing, 42 carats.

The diamond was polished, 82 faces were applied for a better brilliance and gave the name “Tiffany Diamond”. The crystal helped strengthen the reputation of the jewelry brand as an ideal place for luxury. In the photo: Tiffany diamond as a jewelry was used only twice. For the first time he was put on by the wife of the senator and the owner of the annual ball in the marble palace in Newport.

For the second time, Audrey Hepburn put on a necklace for a photo shoot. At one time, the gem was exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute, but today the yellow treasure can be seen in the Tiffany store at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57 Streets of Manhattan. Symbol of brides, Tiffany's engagement rings have become a synonym for romance and an imminent wedding.

And it all started with the fact that in the year the company introduced the engagement rings of the Tiffany Setting series. Until that moment, all the rings with diamonds were inserted into the frame, but the new model looked completely different: the fixing with six teeth exalted the stone above the ring, thereby making its radiance even brighter. It was a real revolution in the field of engagement rings.

From this very moment, the American jeweler took first place in the list of those young people who were going to make an offer to their lover. Well, the girls, at the sight of a turquoise box, the heart began to fight more often. In the photo: Tiffany setting engagement ring. Louis Comfort Tiffany. After the death of Charles, his son inherited the company - Louis Comfort Tiffany.

He became the first official director of design. But up to a year, Louis Comfort was fond of glass. From his young age, he actively traveled, visited the faculties of prestigious educational institutions and adopted the experience of masters in Italy, England, and France. Father hoped that Louis would be interested in family business, but the son was so covered by a passion for a glass mosaic that he was constantly engaged in experiments.

He learned to create original stained -glass windows and lamps with a spectacular game of light, and in the year his work was chosen for the exposition at the World Exhibition in Philadelphia. In the photo: Louis Comfort Tiffany. Thanks to his hard work, the master received prestigious orders for the design of the White House and the house of Mark Twain.In the year, he finally founded his Tiffany Glass Company.

In the year, Louis visited Emil Galle's glass factory in France and he was so inspired by a variety of glass that he decided to open his factory and attract the best chemists and glass masters. In the year, a glass of a glass came true - he made a new glass "Favrile", which means "manual work". In the photo: Louis Tiffany's work is stained glass. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Louis Tiffany knew all over the world as the most famous glass manufacturer.

His plant made lamps, lampshades, croppions, lamps, floor lamps of all kinds of forms and colors. In the year, Tiffany was renamed Tiffany Studios, and Louis Comfort himself, after his father’s death, took up jewelry design. Soon, mosaic lampshades and lamps went out of fashion. Wealthy owners changed the interior design, and Tiffany Studios lamps went to the servant.

As a result, the case finally fell into decay and in the year Louis Tiffany decided to finally close the workshop and completely devote himself to his father's company. In the photo: year. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Art Nouveau style gained popularity and Louis created innovative, inspired by nature jewelry using glass, precious stones and enamel.

It was a completely new Tiffany with jewelry in the form of wildflowers, berries, dragonflies, dandelions. In the photo: Liu Tiffany jewelry with precious stones, glass and enamel. Thanks to this film, the company is now known throughout the world. However, what does breakfast have to do with it, if Tiffany is a jewelry salon? The thing is that when Truman Capota wrote his work, he laid in the name a popular American joke about the provincial, who wanted to seem to be a capital resident.

When he was asked in which restaurant in New York he would like to visit, he proudly answered-"Let's have breakfast with Tiffany." The picture was incredible to the public. In the photo: Audrey Hepburn and a necklace with a yellow Tiffany diamond. The heroine of the film, an elegant lover of Tiffany's philosophy and style, really liked the audience. In anticipation of the film output, the actress posed for advertising photographs with the famous yellow diamond “Tiffany” with a karate weight set in the Ribbon Rosette necklace, created by Jean of Shlyumberge.

However, the jewel has not appeared in the film itself. On the premiere, Audrey Hepburn put on a laconic black dress and Tiffany diadem with diamonds. In addition to the film “Breakfast at Tiffany”, the jewelry of the famous brand appeared or mentioned in various films: “Seeing the Seattle”, “War of brides”, “Muse”, “Pretend to my wife”, “Great Gatsby”, “Gossip”.

Elsa Peretti Tiffany is a brand that managed to enter the market with its affordable silver collections without weakening the atmosphere of exclusivity. This is the merit of Elsa Peretti. She began her career in Tiffany in the year, and after 5 years she became the chief designer of the jewelry house. Her silver products, at more affordable prices, produced the desired effect - attracted a young audience.

Elsa traveled a lot to China and Japan and developed more than 30 collections, such as Bob, Open Heart and Zodiac. By the way, for more than 40 years, the “Open Heart” necklace was a favorite gift for the young lady in honor of important events: adulthood or graduation. In the photo: Elsa Peretti. The necklace is "open heart." He was considered one of the most gifted artists of the 20th century, was famous for his fantastic surreal creations.

It was Jean Michelle who brought to the Tiffany decoration the design of the Renaissance. Schlumberge had an exquisite taste, a unique ability to recreate the surrounding natural world in precious jewelry. In the photo: Jean Michelle Shlyumberge and his creations. She had access to a huge variety of precious stones, and she created impressive jewelry with large crystals. However, most of all the girl loved simplicity and beautiful bends.

Paloma could find inspiration in anything: monograms, architecture, branches of trees, graffiti ... So the famous jewelry with an ornate olive branch, as well as with the inscriptions “Kiss” and “Love”, originated. In the photo: Paloma Picasso. Decorations "Love" and olive branch. Tiffany’s mineralogical discoveries throughout its history not only blinded the world with diamond decorations, but also introduced us to previously unknown precious stones.

In the year, Tiffany introduced a purple-pink gem from California, which was named after the hemologist George Kunts-Kuncite. The lilac gem quickly became an adored object of luxury for high light and after a while he was recognized as an opponent of a pink diamond. To find out what properties the stone possesses and which of the icons of the style wore a ring with a delicate crystal in our article “Kuncit - Magic of purple stone”.

In the photo: a headset with the Kuncites "Philosophy of Classics" from the jewelry house Maxim Demidov.In the year, TIFFANY hehemologists discovered pink beryl on Madagascar, which was named after one of their most devoted customers - Bank Magnat John Morgan - Morganite. In nature, there are a variety of shades of morganite: from pale purple to brownish orange.

Some morganites show a pleochroism and can have various delicate colors depending on the viewing angle and lighting. But pink stones are most appreciated, as they meet much less often than others.