{"id":18049,"date":"2026-05-21T18:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/18049\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:33:35","slug":"tiffany-co-s-blue-book-2026-collection-takes-flight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/18049\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiffany & Co.\u2019s Blue Book 2026 Collection Takes Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At Tiffany & Co., good things come in little blue boxes, especially those that come from Blue Books. Each year, these catalogs showcase one-of-a-kind masterpieces inspired by designer Jean Schlumberger\u2019s<\/a> sublime point of view. Once a direct-mail compilation of rare imports from around the world, they began to transform under his direction into a visual oasis of his most imaginative bejeweled creations once he joined the house as Vice President in 1956.<\/p>\n

This year, for the Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden high jewelry collection, Tiffany & Co. rekindles some of the artist\u2019s most beloved motifs, building on the enchantment of sprawling blossoms, butterflies, and dainty birds. Led by the vision of Senior Vice President and Chief Artistic Officer of High Jewelry and Jewelry Nathalie Verdeille, the intricate treasures revisit Schlumberger\u2019s love of lush landscapes and all their characters. The garden was a consistent wellspring of inspiration for the designer, evidenced in daisies, tulips, and grasshoppers translated into ornate baubles cloaked in gemstones.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Blue Book 2025: Sea of Wonder collection highlighted Schlumberger\u2019s infatuation with marine life\u2014think a moonstone-dusted seahorse brooch and a necklace of pav\u00e9 diamond conch shells drizzled with ribbons of gold. But when twinkling pairs Love Birds hatched from the workshop this year, they hinted at an Eden of flora and fauna inspired jewels to come.<\/p>\n

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Bird on a Rock by Tiffany Lovebird Brooches<\/p>\n

The Love Birds flock descended from Schlumberger\u2019s Bird on a Rock motif\u2014an enduring example of the jeweler’s ability to alchemize moments into tangible tokens of beauty. Many of his pieces reflected observations gleaned from his travels and time spent at his home in Guadalupe. Born in the 1960s with lifelike feathers and rubies for eyes, the diamond-encrusted creature was an exquisite snapshot of nature\u2019s splendor, perched on a precious stone.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first saw Jean Schlumberger\u2019s Bird on a Rock, I was struck by its vitality,\u201d Verdeille tells Bazaar. \u201cBalancing precariously on the rock, it seemed ready to take flight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Numerous versions of the Bird on a Rock followed, including one perched on a juicy lapis lazuli stone crafted for his longtime friend Bunny Mellon. Many of Schlumberger\u2019s pieces were reflective of his friendship with the society Swan and their shared admiration of whimsical blooms and the critters among them.<\/p>\n

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A 1995 Version of Jean Schlumberger\u2019s Bird on a Rock Brooch featuring the Tiffany Diamond, worth 128.54 carats<\/p>\n

\"JewelryVirginia Museum of Fine Arts, collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2015.109<\/p>\n

Bird on a Rock (Brooch), 1965, Jean Schlumberger (French, 1907\u20131987), Tiffany & Company (American, founded 1837) manufacturer, lapis lazuli, colored and white diamonds, ruby, 18-karat gold, platinum.<\/p>\n

Each pair of Love Birds captures the harmony that blooms between kindred spirits\u2014like artist and muse. Best worn together, these birds of a feather capitalize on genius stone pairings. One necklace-and-brooch duo kills two birds with one stone, juxtaposing a celestial opal with a sunny, blood orange topaz. Crafted in such intricate detail from beak to tail, you can almost hear them chirping amongst themselves as they face one another.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to prolong this momentum [of the Bird on a Rock], to further animate it, opening up new creative horizons,\u201d Verdeille says. \u201cWhile searching for a way to accompany this movement, I remembered a Christmas card that Andy Warhol created for Tiffany in the 1960s: a flock of vibrant birds fluttering around a star in a joyful, almost musical, ballet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JewelryTiffany & Co.<\/p>\n

Bird on a Rock: Love Birds by Tiffany & Co.<\/p>\n

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Bird on a Rock: Love Birds by Tiffany & Co.<\/p>\n

Soaring to new heights in the Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden milieu, the Bird on a Rock migrates to meadows of chrysoprase beads, punctuated by cushion-cut aquamarine stones. The suite, which includes a necklace with a convertible brooch, bracelet, earrings, and ring, coexists with an enchanting web of insect-inspired companions, from the butterfly to the bee.<\/p>\n

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Bird on a Rock chrysoprase featauring a cushion-cut aquamarine of 9.53 carats from the Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden Collection <\/p>\n

Together, these wonders recall Schlumberger\u2019s ability to tease fluid motifs from biomorphic forms, reframing them into works all their own. Within the Butterfly chapter, wings open up to glistening streams of diamonds that extend into necklaces and bracelets. The Bee chapter draws on the heritage of the Two Bees ring<\/a>, recolonizing the buzzy diamond pollinators in honeycomb-like golden structures. Alongside a hexagonal necklace and drop earrings, a reimagined rendition of Schlumberger\u2019s ring swells to new proportions, featuring an internally flawless diamond worth over 10 carats, nestled between two figurative bees that bear homage to the original.<\/p>\n

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Butterfly bracelet featuring an oval-shaped, F-color VVS2 diamond of 2.12 carats from the Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden Collection<\/p>\n

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Bee ring featuring an internally flawless, Type IIa, oval-shaped diamond of 10.17 carats from the Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden Collection<\/p>\n

The collection\u2019s ecosystem thrives among a habitat of novelties inspired by teeming beds of flowers and foliage. Luscious perennials come to life in undulating wreaths of platinum and 18-karat gold. Schlumberger had a habit of interlacing precious metals in the spirit of untamed grandeur seen in rambling vines. Perhaps the most recognizable example of this interlocking framework was his Ribbon Rosette<\/a> necklace, worn by Audrey Hepburn for the promotion of Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s in 1961.<\/p>\n

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Audrey Hepburn in Ribbon Rosette necklace by Jean Schlumberger for Tiffany & Co.<\/p>\n

This season\u2019s crop of flowers embrace the whimsy of jasmine and nascent buds, with help of dazzling diamonds and unenhanced emeralds.<\/p>\n

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Jasmine necklace featuring a cushion-cut diamond of 18.80 carats from the Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden Collection <\/p>\n

\"ElegantTiffany & Co.<\/p>\n

Twin Bid necklace featuring pear-shaped unenhanced emeralds of 3.97 total carats from the Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden Collection <\/p>\n

Within this bejeweled biome, you can bet the reintroduction of the Paradise Bird will inspire Schlumberger devotees to reach for their binoculars. Unlike the Bird on a Rock, which has lived many lives atop various precious gemstones over time, the Paradise Bird has fewer ancestors. Dreamt up by Schlumberger in 1962, the first rendition of the petite treasure featured a diamond crest and yellow diamond head, punctuated by a vibrant plumage of amethysts, cabochon emeralds, sapphires, and aquamarines.<\/p>\n

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Paradise Bird brooch by Jean Schlumberger for Tiffany & Co. circa 1962<\/p>\n

The rare species reemerged in the 2008 Blue Book collection, and this year, four offspring landed on islands of solitaire gems. Clad in colorful featherscapes by way of gemstones such as turquoise, sapphires, emeralds, and tsavorites, these treasures are easy to spot in the wild.<\/p>\n

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Paradise bird brooch featuring an oval-shaped cabochon spessartine of 66.60 carats from the Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden Collection <\/p>\n

\"ColorfulTiffany & Co.<\/p>\n

Paradise bird brooch featuring an oval-shaped cabochon rubellite of 60.24 carats from the Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden Collection <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4 min read At Tiffany & Co., good things come in little blue boxes, especially those that come…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12775],"tags":[4709,13650,99,8655,98,4955,2966,13162,13651,12767],"class_list":["post-18049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tiffany-co","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-f88b3d86-768c-456d-bd3c-cde3c74d8e1c","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-lvmh","tag-read_time-4","tag-shorttitle-tiffanys-blue-book-2026-collection-takes-flight","tag-subsection-fashion-news","tag-tiffany-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}