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Tiffany’s yellow diamond protagonist of a thriller

Published on October 23, 2020

La collana con il diamante giallo da 128,54 carati

A thriller for the most famous yellow diamond: that of Tiffany with an exceptional weight of 128 carats. The precious diamond, mounted on a necklace, will be the protagonist of Death on the Nile, a film based on a thriller written by Agatha Christie in 1937. It will be worn by Gal Gadot, who plays the character of Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle. The jewel obviously plays a fundamental role in the plot of the film. In truth, the book is about a string of pearls at the center of the plot, but the writers have decided to replace the pearls with Tiffany’s yellow diamond. Or, better, with an accurate copy used for the shooting and made by the craftsmen of the American Maison.

Gal Gadot indossa la collana di Tiffany con il diamante giallo da 128 carati

The cushion cut yellow diamond has a long history. It was carved from a 287.42-carat rough stone discovered in the Kimberley mine in South Africa in 1877. The cutting process took 12 months and was supervised by George Frederick Kunz, at the time Tiffany’s chief gemologist. When the work was finished, the founder of Tiffany, Charles Lewis Tiffany, decided not to sell it, but to show it to the public in a window of the Maison. Indeed, it has become a tourist attraction, a symbol of Tiffany & Co.’s diamond expertise. Before Gal Gadot, it was worn by Audrey Hepburn and, more recently, by Lady Gaga 1919 February.

Un'immagine del film: Gal Gadot con la collana con il diamante giallo Tiffany — Un’immagine del film: Gal Gadot con la collana con il diamante giallo Tiffany

Gal Gadot con il Tiffany Diamond da 128,54 carati

Il diamante è stato incastonato nel design della spilla Bird on a Rock di Jean Schlumberger per la retrospettiva del gioielliere al Museé des Art Décoratif nel 1995

The heart of Bulgari in Moscow

Published on September 11, 2018

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Sotuar Bulgari in oro, grande smeraldo, rubini, diamanti, 1970. Collezione Heritage Bulgari

Bulgari’s historical jewels in a major exhibition organized in the heart of the Kremlin ♦ ︎

The jewels return to the Kremlin. But they are not those of the tsars. For the first time in Russia, the Moscow Museums host a retrospective exhibition featuring Bulgari’s high-end works. The exhibition was curated by Lucia Boscaini, Brand and Heritage Curator of the Maison.

On show (7 September 2018-13 January 2019) there are over 400 unique high-end pieces from the Bulgari Heritage Collection, as well as those from private collections all over the world.

Curiously, one of the main themes of the exhibition is the reflection of the ideas of femininity in the works of Bulgari. Perhaps the women who wore Bulgari are more aware of their gender? Who knows. The theme, the organizers explain, is explored through the collection created by the jewelry house in several decades of the last century, when the destruction of stereotypes about the traditional role of women in society was reflected in jewelry and other arts.
With roots in the nineteenth century, when it was founded by Sotirio Bulgari, since 1920 the Roman maison has created exclusive jewels and watches in the art deco style and started using large round diamonds. In the following decades, the style of jewelry changed with the lifestyle of women. But it is in the fifties and sixties that the great jewels of Bulgari have become an international myth, thanks to the use of large colored stones.

The brand’s history is closely linked to legendary women like Anna Magnani, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Gina Lollobrigida, Monica Vitti and Sophia Loren.

But the myth is also to collections of wristwatches such as those of the Serpenti line, developed by Bulgari since the mid-forties. to the tubogas technique embellished with enamels, stones, opaque and polished gold, using Greek coins, Roman coins and shutters of colossal historical value. the exhibited pieces range from the late nineteenth century until the nineties. Federico Graglia

Collana in oro con perle, diamanti, zaffiri, rubini

Bulgari, bracciale orologio Serpenti in oro, platino, rubini e diamanti

La collana indossata da Elizabeth Taylor, ora esposta alla retrospettiva Bulgari a Mosca, presenta 16 smeraldi colombiani ottagonali a gradini, ciascuno circondato da diamanti, con un pendente con smeraldo 23,44 carati che era stato una spilla

Tiffany closed for renovation

Published on September 7, 2018

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Tiffany store closes. But do not worry: the Fifth Avenue shop of the world’s most famous brand pauses to restructure ♦ ︎

The most famous jewelry store in the world is located in New York: it is Tiffany. In addition to being the flagship store of the largest group of jewelry, the large Tiffany boutique is also a myth. Much of the credit goes to a lucky combination that brought Tiffany into the title of one of the most famous films. The jewelry on Fifth Avenue is the one admired by Audrey Hepburn, with a little black dress by Givenchy, in the film edition of the novel by Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
If you have passed the shop windows between 57th Street and Fifth Avenue in New Yoirk, or you have planned to go there, know that the shop closes its doors. It is not, however, a definitive closure, but only a rather long pause, three years, in view of a radical restructuring.

Renovation works will start in 2019 and end at the end of 2021.

The cost of the operation was calculated at 250 million dollars. A mountain of money, which will change the face of the store opened in 1940. The new CEO, the Italian Alessandro Bogliolo, decided the operation. It was not by chance that the delicate task of renewing the company was entrusted to him. And sales figures seem to agree with him. The Fifth Avenue shop, explained Bogliolo, has always been synonymous with innovation: for example, it was one of the first in the world with air conditioning.
That Tiffany store was inaugurated on October 21, 1940, at the foot of a granite and limestone building, with Art Deco influences and steel doors. It is guarded by a bronze statue about 3 meters high that depicts Atlas, mythological giant who in this case carries a watch on his shoulders instead of the world. It was also the first public clock in New York. Now it closes. And who wants to buy Tiffany jewels? Jewelery, pottery and silver from Tiffany will move during the works in the adjacent premises of the former Niketown.

Audrey Hepburn in «Colazione da Tiffany», davanti alle vetrine del negozio di New York

Il classico anello in oro bianco e tre diamanti di Tiffany & co.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, in Turin

Published on May 8, 2018

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s celebrates 60 years at the Turin Book Fair ♦ ︎
Are you fascinated and fascinated by Holly Golightly, aka Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s? Perhaps you do not know that the novel from which the film was based was written by Truman Capote just 60 years ago. And if you like reading, you like Tiffany, you are in Turin and admire the British actress (and not, as many thinks, American), you can participate on Friday 11 May at a round table organized during the Book Fair. Breakfast at Tiffany’s was published by Esquire magazine in November 1958. A few months later, the Random House publishing house proposed it to the bookstore. Time called her heroine “the most exciting kitten that the Truman Capote typewriter has ever created”. In 1961, the film of the same name directed by Blake Edwards starring Audrey Hepburn was released.
The round table will retrace the story of the first publication of the story, its film version and, of course, the myth of Tiffany & Co. on Fifth Avenue in New York.
Speakers include Luca Beatrice, art critic and president Circolo dei Lettori Torino, Evelina Christillin, president of the Egyptian Museum in Turin and president of Enit, Piero Negri, journalist La Stampa, Enrico Remmert, writer. Introduced by Raffaella Banchero, CEO Tiffany & Co. Italy and Spain and Carlo Mazzoni, editorial director of The Fashionable Lampoon.
60th anniversary
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
a novel by Truman Capote New York, 1958
Round Table Friday 11 May 10 am
Museum of the Risorgimento, Turin

Un'immagine di «Colazione da Tiffany» — Un’immagine di «Colazione da Tiffany»

Tiffany, Fifth Avenue, New York, in occasione del lancio della collezione Paper Flowers

Chantecler plays new little bells

Published on April 26, 2017

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The 70 years of Chantecler and the collection that celebrates the Maison from Capri ♦
Chantecler, born in Capri with Salvatore Aprea and Pietro Capuano, star of the Dolce Vita of the Isola Azzurra, celebrated 70 years with the celebratory collection entitled Anima 70: a tribute to the symbols of the brand, such as Campanella, Gallo, Il Corno and Joyful, which enclose the atmosphere of Capri, and the iconic colors of the maison that uses corals, turquoise, kogolong and onyx. They are light necklaces, lively multi-charm bracelets and unpublished designs, such as earrings with a small bell and hoop earrings, a re-read of the adventure begun in 1947.
The presentation of Anima 70 in Rome, with the brothers Aprea, Costanza, Maria Elena and Gabriele heirs of Chantecler’s tradition that today besides the boutique in Capri counts on other shops in Cortina, Tokyo, Astana and Hong Kong.
Read also Chantecler’s soul
The History
At the end of the 1940s, Pietro Capuano opened a jewelery store in Capri with Salvatore Aprea, a young, very creative island. With the period of Dolce Vita Capri lives an unrepeatable tale: on the Island come the most beautiful and famous women in the world, the richest men in the world and many intellectuals. Pietro Capuano, nicknamed Chantecler, like the rooster of Edmond de Rostand’s opera, whose song has the power to summon the sun’s birth, is the eccentric master of ceremonies at Capri, the night emperor on the island.
The protagonists of the international jet set take away from the Island of Dolce Vita the Chantecler jewels, a symbol of the magic of Capri, whose fame dates back to the Roman Empire: among the first to appreciate Cesare Augusto and Tiberius who chose it as his residence . But it was in the 1950s that they were deciding their world success. The legendary Piazzetta became the world’s center of the island, so that over the years it is nicknamed the “living room of the world”.
Hollywood in Capri
In the 1950s, Liza Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Maria Callas, Rita Hayworth, Empress Soraya and Princess Grace Kelly fell in love with Chantecler jewelry. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis also became a customer of Capri’s boutique: in 1970 the Greek shipowner gave her a diamond star of inestimable value. Pietro Capuano created his jewels inspired by the woman who would wear them. Thus, unique pieces made of rare gems were born. Diamond and turquoise necklace like the Capri sea; Blue sapphires that resemble the starry sky; Rubies fireworks; Precious emeralds for color, size and cut.
Resumes the name from one of the most beautiful places in Capri, the Grotta Azzurra ring, white gold, diamonds and a beautiful central aquamarine. Pink cut diamonds support blue aquamarine like the sea, from cushion cutting. Galli’s Necklace is one of the most iconic creations of the maison that reproduces the logo in an original way. The diamond jewel in pink and pavé symbolizes the long tradition of the brand with numerous galleries of decreasing size. The Campanelle is inspired by an ancient legend: a shepherd looking for his only sheep disappeared in Capri, appeared on a cloud St. Michael, who pulled a bell from his neck and gave it to the young man, telling him that at his sound he would find The lost sheep. And so it was. The legend was repeated in 1944 when Chantecler made a bronze bell and donated it to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to celebrate the end of the Second World War. In 1950 Chantecler created the first jewel bell, Premiere, given to countess Edda Ciano. Recently, Chantecler has designed Campaign Daisy for the daughters of President Obama. Patrizia Vacalebri (Ansa)