A PAIR OF DIAMOND EARCLIPS,...
A PAIR OF DIAMOND EARCLIPS, BY SCHLUMBERGER FOR TIFFANY & Co.
Each designed as gold rope rays highlighted with round brilliant-cut diamonds, mounted in 18K gold, diamonds approximately 0.80ct, signed 'Tiffany Schlumberger', length 3.3cm
Jean Schlumberger for Tiffany & Co.
Jean Schlumberger (1907-1987) started his career in Paris in the 1930s as a designer of costume jewellery for the renowned couturier Elsa Schiaparelli and by the end of the decade he was creating fine jewellery for a discerning clientele. In 1939 he joined forces with Nicholas Bongard and together they opened a jewellery shop at 745 Fifth Avenue. Schlumberger looked to nature for inspiration and the pieces that made him famous and so well loved, were a riot of coloured gems, enamel and yellow gold.
Tiffany & Co., under the direction of Walter Hoving, recruited Schlumberger in 1955 with hopes to breath new life into the company and create a new look. Schlumberger was one of only four jewellers that Tiffany has allowed to sign their work and it was his playful imagination that mounted a jewelled bird on top of the famous Tiffany Yellow Diamond.
Schlumberger brings to his art classic design principles of the Renaissance, reported The Blue Book of 1986. Diana Vreeland, the respected editor of Vogue, wrote that Schlumberger appreciated the miracle of jewels, which for him are the ways and means to the realisation of his dreams.
Created in his studio on the mezzanine level of Tiffanys Fifth Avenue flagship store, his designs became de rigueur for fashionable women of the time including Diana Vreeland, Babe Paley Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. His pailloné enamel bracelets became so widely associated with Jacqueline Kennedy they are still known today as the Jackie bracelets.
Schlumberger retired in the late 1970s and died in 1987, but more than a hundred of his designs continue to be made by Tiffany artisans.
Schlumberger pieces have not only held their value at auction but continue to increase in general, such as the diamond and yellow gold ear clips on offer at Adams. These classic ear clips, composed of twisted lines of yellow gold decorated with bright white diamonds are a delight to the eye and a stylish investment piece.
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A PAIR OF DIAMOND EARCLIPS, BY SCHLUMBERGER FOR TIFFANY & Co.
Each designed as gold rope rays highlighted with round brilliant-cut diamonds, mounted in 18K gold, diamonds approximately 0.80ct, signed 'Tiffany Schlumberger', length 3.3cm
Jean Schlumberger for Tiffany & Co.
Jean Schlumberger (1907-1987) started his career in Paris in the 1930s as a designer of costume jewellery for the renowned couturier Elsa Schiaparelli and by the end of the decade he was creating fine jewellery for a discerning clientele. In 1939 he joined forces with Nicholas Bongard and together they opened a jewellery shop at 745 Fifth Avenue. Schlumberger looked to nature for inspiration and the pieces that made him famous and so well loved, were a riot of coloured gems, enamel and yellow gold.
Tiffany & Co., under the direction of Walter Hoving, recruited Schlumberger in 1955 with hopes to breath new life into the company and create a new look. Schlumberger was one of only four jewellers that Tiffany has allowed to sign their work and it was his playful imagination that mounted a jewelled bird on top of the famous Tiffany Yellow Diamond.
Schlumberger brings to his art classic design principles of the Renaissance, reported The Blue Book of 1986. Diana Vreeland, the respected editor of Vogue, wrote that Schlumberger appreciated the miracle of jewels, which for him are the ways and means to the realisation of his dreams.
Created in his studio on the mezzanine level of Tiffanys Fifth Avenue flagship store, his designs became de rigueur for fashionable women of the time including Diana Vreeland, Babe Paley Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. His pailloné enamel bracelets became so widely associated with Jacqueline Kennedy they are still known today as the Jackie bracelets.
Schlumberger retired in the late 1970s and died in 1987, but more than a hundred of his designs continue to be made by Tiffany artisans.
Schlumberger pieces have not only held their value at auction but continue to increase in general, such as the diamond and yellow gold ear clips on offer at Adams. These classic ear clips, composed of twisted lines of yellow gold decorated with bright white diamonds are a delight to the eye and a stylish investment piece.
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