The fine jewelry collection, meanwhile, features rings, earrings (which can be worn four entirely different ways), bracelets, and necklaces showcasing vivid textures meant to evoke a bird\u2019s plumage, while birds themselves are the beating, glittering heart of the necklaces. When the rings are stacked, they interlock in much the same way as the feathers on a bird\u2019s wing. Both collections launch September 2.<\/p>\n
Unlike Santo Domingo and me, Verdeille, 49\u2014who graduated from Paris\u2019s prestigious Haute \u00c9cole de Joaillerie\u200b before finding her way to Cartier, Chaumet, and, since 2021, Tiffany\u2014didn\u2019t tramp through Central Park looking for inspiration: Instead, she scoured the massive Tiffany archive, though her prime inspiration was Schlumberger\u2019s yellow cockatoo.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was\u2014what\u2019s the bird that collects things? He was a magpie,\u201d Santo Domingo says. \u201cHe would travel all around the globe looking for new techniques, new materials, new craft, and he would collect beautiful things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried to re-create the notion of levitation,\u201d says Verdeille, \u201cso that you feel that the bird is flying. Taken together as a whole collection, it adds up to a kind of poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Each bird she designed, of course, required different diamonds\u2014different sizes, shapes, colors\u2014and different amounts of diamonds, with some 20 or 30 on each head. (The tanzanite necklace, meanwhile, contains 594 diamonds and took almost 350 hours to create.) \u201cEach one changes depending on how you wear it,\u201d Verdeille says. \u201cWhen you wear it, you create a new\u00a0dimension.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aside from reinterpreting Schlumberger\u2019s long-ago vision, Verdeille was out to do nothing less than transform the house of Tiffany. \u201cHow can we play with the DNA of the past while moving the bird, and the house, forward?\u201d she asked herself. By adding movement and fluidity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe old tradition in Paris was to study the movement of animals at a zoo,\u201d Verdeille continues, \u201cand that was how we worked to compose this new bird\u2014the wing, the tail.\u201d In Verdeille\u2019s \u201cthink different\u201d tradition, though, the question was actually raised: Why did it have to be a cockatoo\u2014or even a bird, for that matter?<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore we settled on the cockatoo,\u201d Verdeille says, \u201cwe did some owls, we did some peacocks, we did some, how do you say? Some\u00a0pigeons.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRock dove,\u201d Santo Domingo says, \u201creally does just sound so much nicer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fine jewelry collection, meanwhile, features rings, earrings (which can be worn four entirely different ways), bracelets, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12775],"tags":[4955,2842,16756,12918,12767],"class_list":["post-22643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tiffany-co","tag-lvmh","tag-magazine","tag-splitscreenimagerightinset","tag-storytypenews-trending","tag-tiffany-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22643","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=22643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}