Renowned Jeweler Ignites the Night with a Brilliant Display of Light
and Beauty
NEW YORK, NY (April 10, 2014) --
Celebrating with all the glamour of its great heritage, Tiffany & Co.
tonight unveiled its 2014 Blue Book
at an event that transformed the Guggenheim Museum into a pantheon of colors
that filled the museum’s soaring rotunda.
One of New York City’s leading
cultural institutions, the Guggenheim is revered for its modern and
contemporary collection. Frank Lloyd Wright’s clean, curvaceous architecture is
the ideal setting for Blue Book’s spectacular creations, the epitome of the
jeweler’s art.
Gemstones were key to the international renown Tiffany enjoys today, over 175 years after its founding
in New York City. Blue Book is the
supreme showcase for these rare treasures, and on this night they burst into
bloom like spring’s dramatic awakening.
The approximately 300 guests,
including Jessica Biel, Kate Bosworth, Katie Holmes, Hilary Rhoda and Jessica
Joffe stepped into an atmosphere sparkling with gems of pure, saturated
color—vibrant blue and green, sunny yellow, fiery red, pink and
purple—handcrafted in designs as diverse and exuberant as nature itself. Among
them were flowers of fancy color sapphires shimmering on a necklace of platinum
vines, and an electrifying blue cuprian tourmaline framed by a diamond
necklace. Other creations included a cuff of 18k white gold set with seamless
waves of blue sapphires and diamonds; Jean Schlumberger’s lavish rings with
rubellite, aquamarine and turquoise; and fluid earrings and a bracelet of
lustrous Montana sapphires.
Tiffany highlighted this
dazzling kaleidoscope with rarest fancy color and
white diamonds, hand cut and set in jewels of ultimate style and excellence.
Among these were an internally flawless 15.04-carat Fancy Vivid Yellow diamond
ring; Art Deco-inspired bangles with yellow and white diamonds; a drape
necklace with over 140 carats of exquisite stones; and opulent diamond and
platinum rings.
Blue Book’s many colors and
creative energy culminated in “ The Diamond Sky,” a one-night-only sound and light installation
by the Leo Kuelbs Collection. This moving spectacle led with mesmerizing
imagery of Blue Book’s jewels in three-dimensional forms that enveloped the
museum’s rotunda. The faceted gems glowed ever brighter, making way for
breathtaking projections of the Tiffany Diamond,
icon of Tiffany’s diamond legacy,
followed by a rendering of Tiffany’s Fifth Avenue flagship store
and New York City’s glittering skyline. These touchstones of a brilliant
heritage floated upward, shifting in space and morphing into stars, capping an
unforgettable night when the world’s most magnificent jewels came to light with
the magic of dreams.
Tiffany & Co. operates
jewelry stores and manufactures products through its subsidiary corporations.
Its principal subsidiary is Tiffany and Company. The Company operates TIFFANY
& CO. retail stores in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Japan and Europe, as
well as in the United Arab Emirates and Russia. It also engages in direct
selling through Internet, catalog and business gift operations. For more
information, please visit www.Tiffany.com
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