The jewelry of these brands delights and amazes with its impeccability. Their jewelry has long been relegated to the category of luxury items that are collected by avid jewelry lovers.
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The secret of their magnificence lies in a history that is not calculated in years, or even decades. Some jewelry houses are so old that they exceed several centuries. Today we will talk about the oldest jewelry brands in the world.
Tiffany & Co
In the USA in 1837, Charles Lewis Tiffany and John F. Young founded the company Tiffany, Young and Ellis, which in 1853 was renamed Tiffany & Co.
, after Charles Tiffany took over all management. Despite the fact that the company is no less than 180 years old, it is considered the most popular among young people.
And all thanks to their signature silver jewelry. You all probably know these composite bracelets made from balls, keys and other figures. Oddly enough, the brand’s brand recognition was also achieved by its signature turquoise color, which the company patented in 1998. By the way, Tiffany & Co.
It produces not only jewelry, but also stationery, watches, perfumes and even leather goods.
Paul Flato/Paul Flato
Paul Flato was the master jeweler to the stars: his work adorned the Hollywood elite. He founded his company in New York in 1928, and in 1937 opened a store in Los Angeles. His figurative style, often with a fair amount of irony, especially flourished in the 1930s, when such masters as Adolphe Clyty, George Hedley and Duke Fulco di Verdura were engaged in jewelry design.
Flato's statement pieces include diamond feathers, hands holding a bouquet, and a brooch in the shape of a chest filled with jewelry.
Regulars of his atelier were Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Vivien Leigh and the main Hollywood heroes - Douglas Fairbanks, Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles. His jewelry was worn by Katharine Hepburn in the film The Holiday, Greta Garbo in The Two-Faced Woman, and Rita Hayworth in the film Blood and Sand.
In this necklace created for the wife of composer Cole Porter (c. 1935), Verdura transformed a practical piece of clothing, a belt, into a stunning piece of jewelry with aquamarines and rubies. A truly extraordinary move in an era when most jewelers produced floral or geometric jewelry! The necklace is so cleverly designed that it looks like a knotted belt that can be worn straight or to the side, as in the 1944 Vogue shoot.
Cartier
French jewelry house Cartier
traces its history back to 1847. The company received its name from its creator Louis-François Cartier. King Edward VII of England called Cartier “the jeweler of kings and the king of jewelers,” because. the company created crowns for coronations.
Cartier company
is one of the first in the world to produce wristwatches, and to this day the company is one of the top ten watch brands.
One of the most famous jewelry from Cartier
was the Trinity (triple) ring, it appeared in 1924 and is still produced to this day, without losing its popularity.
Cartier
bracelets and rings in the form of a curved nail encrusted with diamonds are also very popular today.
Italian jewelry house Pistachio
Founded in 1826
Gold necklace with diamonds from Pistachio
Gold ring with pistachio - the symbol of the Pistachio brand
The Italian city of Vicenza is considered the birthplace of the Pistachio jewelry house. At first it was a small family workshop, founded in the middle of the 18th century. Among the family's jewelers, Luigi Pietrotenaglia especially stood out. He had an eldest son, whom he taught his son all his skills. Over time, the son, whose name was Biagio, mastered the art better than his father and in 1826 became the head of the family business.
Traditional techniques were not enough for him, and he went to the Middle East for inspiration. There the young man fell in love, but his chosen one was already engaged. It broke his heart and gave him inspiration. The young jeweler created a beautiful, finely crafted precious box, and placed golden pistachios in it. In the East they are a symbol of joy, love and prosperity. Often these nuts are presented to newlyweds on their wedding day. Biagio did the same; to his surprise, after this act he received a huge number of orders not only in the East, but also in Europe. This is how the glorious history of the Pistachio jewelry house began, and the pistachio became its permanent symbol. Now the brand is 189 years old and its craftsmen continue to amaze the world with their jewelry works.
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Chopard
The Swiss premium watch and jewelry company was founded by 24-year-old Louis-Wilisse Chopard in 1860, in the town of Sonvilliers, in the mountains of Switzerland. At first, the company produced only wristwatches and over the entire period of its existence until today, more than 450 watch models have been produced. By the way, LUC wristwatch from Chopard
was greatly appreciated by the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II.
The most famous line of watches in the Chopard
became Chopard Happy Diamonds, where sapphires and diamonds move freely under the glass dial.
Chopard
jewelry often sparkles on Hollywood stars.
Boivin
Jeanne Boivin, having headed the company after the death of her husband in 1917, became a real duchess of the world of fashion and jewelry. The woman at the helm of the famous jewelry company was the sister of Paul Poiret, the couturier who changed fashion with his innovative designs in the 1910s and 1920s.
Jeanne launched the career of Suzanne Belperron, and also worked with Juliette Moutard. The trio of these women created some of the most important jewelry works with recognizable flowing outlines, often taken from nature.
The starfish brooch with rubies and amethysts (1937) is the finest example of the Boivin design, and was Jeanne's own favorite. It was purchased by 1930s Hollywood star Claudette Colbert, who became famous for her Oscar-winning role in the film It Happened One Night. She wore this brooch for Photoplay magazine in 1939.
A more recent version of the starfish was Millicent Rogers, a socialite and heiress to an oil empire. She posed with the starfish for Vogue, one of only four publications from 1937 to 1945 in which it was featured—unheard of popularity for a magazine that had always been at the forefront of fashion.
Bvlgari
Bvlgari
is an Italian company that was founded in 1884 by Greek jeweler Sotirios Boulgaris. The company produces jewelry, watches, perfumes, owns luxury hotels, and is part of the LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy) group of companies. The name is written in Latin, where the "V" is the equivalent of the modern "U".
World celebrities have been regular clients of the company since its inception and to this day; by the way, Elizabeth Taylor was a big fan of Bulgari. Bulgari jewelry
are massive shapes and large bright stones, and many of the jewelry are engraved with the company logo.
"Modern Faberge" Joël Arthur Rosenthal (JAR)
This master, who studied at Harvard, was an artist, director and perfumer, and also collaborated with Bvlgari for six months. But in the 60s. XX century the man met Pierre Janet after opening his own business. The jewelers' priority was not quantity, but quality - they produced only about 100 items.
These masterpieces are compositions made of metal and gems, as well as such non-standard materials as wood, sea shells and beetle shells. Skillfully selected stones form the petals of irises, camellias, clovers and roses, butterfly wings, and the lightest feathers. The collections even include beets, corn cobs and ripe eggplants!
The most devoted admirer of the brand was Lily Safra - she owned 18 JAR items. The craftsmen also made accessories for Elizabeth Taylor, Ellen Barkin, Gwyneth Paltrow and Stella Tennant.
Van Cleef & Arpels
Van Cleef & Arpels Company
was founded by the French Alfred Van Cleef and his uncle Salomon Arpel in 1896. The company became famous for its unique “invisible” frame technology. Only a few pieces of jewelry with such a frame are produced per year, since this method is very labor-intensive.
Brand Van Cleef & Arpels
known for his incredibly beautiful decorations, be it flowers, ballerinas, animals or anything else, everything looks very realistic and luxurious. All jewelry is made only from platinum or white gold with a large number of precious stones.
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Boucheron
Since its founding in 1858, Boucheron has always attracted attention at international exhibitions with its thoughtful and bold designs. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1925, the House showed a whole composition of jewelry with custom-sized cases made of pink shagreen leather. The geometric designs for them were created specifically for the exhibition (the Siegelson collection includes a bracelet in the only known surviving case).
This Art Deco bracelet with diamonds, enamel and precious stones (created for the 1925 exhibition) is one of the most important examples of jewelry design. Stephen Harrison, Curator of Decorative Arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art, comments: “Boucheron created a unique bracelet by innovatively combining osmium with ruby, sapphire and emerald cabochons to create a pattern of bubbles on the surface of water.”
The revolutionary design of this work consists of a geometric arrangement of stones that seem to slide under the diamond frame. Black enamel-coated tubes are mounted diagonally and create a spectacular mirror-like background for colored stones.
Wallace Chan - a fantasy that will last for centuries
A jeweler-artist from China tried himself in different professions. So, he carved ivory, made sculptures for Buddhist monasteries, studied metallurgy and mechanics, and even devoted himself to self-knowledge. However, his true calling turned out to be jewelry design!
The man’s credo is “Find the spiritual meaning of the product and show its depth.” To do this, he invented the “Titanium Jewelry” technique, when titanium is painted in different shades, and “Wallace Cut” (with its help, three-dimensional images appear inside the stone). Wallace Chan also uses the techniques of the masters of the Ming era.
All the jeweler’s works are symbolic, and they can also be transformed - for example, a necklace is divided into a brooch, a ring and a necklace. Thanks to this, it seems that gems and metal smoothly flow into each other, taking the form of dragons, swans, dragonflies and butterflies. This style has earned worldwide recognition - Wallace's latest collection was valued at €230 million.
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Michelle Ong
Brand: Carnet
A girl from Hong Kong who dazzles with her jewelry. She has no professional education, she is also somewhat self-taught. Her talent and boundless imagination helped her climb to the top of jewelry art and firmly gain a foothold there. Michelle was born into a family of doctors and had to go to Canada to become a sociologist. She complied with her parents' wishes and became a sociologist, but then realized that this was not for her and that she wanted to do design.
Michelle was helped in her future profession by her parents, who got her a job at a diamond importing company in Hong Kong. There she learned a lot about stones and materials that can be used in jewelry. She later met her business partner and founded the Carnet company, which began to conquer the world with its jewelry. Michelle combines modernity with classics, oriental with western in her jewelry and does not set any boundaries.
Graff
Graff Diamonds is a British company that claims to make "the most incredible jewels in the world." The London-based company is involved in virtually every aspect of the jewelry business, from design to retail. Not only do Graff work with some of the rarest and most amazing diamonds in the world, but they also adhere to the Kimberly process - not handling so-called "conflict diamonds".
