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Tiffany & Co. Vision and Virtuosity (Ultimate Edition)
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When Charles Lewis Tiffany opened his first store in 1837 in New York City, selling “fancy goods” imported from Paris, he could not have imagined the visions of glamour that...
Jewelry historian Vivienne Becker is an award-winning journalist and author of many books on the history of jewelry design. Based in London, Becker is a contributing editor to Financial Times How to Spend It magazine, writes for newspapers and magazines around the world, and lectures and broadcasts on her subject. She organized and wrote the catalog for the first major exhibition of the jewelry of René Lalique, and curated Jewels of Fantasy, a traveling exhibition of twentieth-century costume jewelry. Becker’s previous books with Assouline include The Impossible Collection of Jewelry (2012), Bulgari: The Joy of Gems—Magnificent High Jewelry Creations (2017) and Cipullo: Making Jewelry Modern (2020).
Fashion editor André Leon Talley (1948–2022) was a Vogue contributing editor and the magazine’s former American editor at large. In 2014 he was named artistic director of Zappos Couture, and was on the board of trustees of Savannah College of Art and Design since 2000. The author of several books, including Valentino (1982), A.L.T.: André Leon Talley (2003), Little Black Dress (2013) and The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir (2020), Talley was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Republic in 2020 and the North Carolina Governor’s Award for Literature, 2021.
Witty and charming and beautiful, that’s pure Tiffany & Co.
— John Loring
In the details
Ultimate Collection curates culture from around the world and across the ages. Hand-bound using traditional techniques, with color plates hand-tipped on art-quality paper, each page of this limited-edition series bears the unique imprint of the artisan.
In the details
Each purchase comes with complimentary white handling gloves and our signature tote bag.
Page count
256 pages
Number of illustrations
230
Language
English
Released on
September 2022
Dimensions
W 39 x L 46 x D 10 cm
Cover materials
Handcrafted silk volume in a silk clamshell case
ISBN
9781649800749
Weight
11.34 kg
Author
Vivienne Becker
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one tree planted
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THE ULTIMATE TOWER
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