Tiffany & Co. thinks outside the blue box

Back in February at the Academy-Awards, Australian actress Cate Blanchett made her usual regal turn on the red carpet, a vision of cool beauty in a silk velvet sheath. The dress, designed by John Galliano for Maison Margiela, was so conspicuous for its lack of frippery it might have easily been interpreted as an emblem of Galliano's continuing public chastening.
The point was not the dress, however. The dress was just a foil for what was draped about Blanchett's milky throat.
To call the jewelled bib she wore that evening a "statement" necklace, as many did, was a bald understatement. Five hundred carats of turquoise beads undulated on its surface, held in place with diamond capped pins. Beneath them lay a platinum armature to which were affixed 400 additional carats of stones - turquoise cabochons, faceted diamonds and aquamarines all contrived to imitate the effect of sunlight refracted through water.

Tiffany & Company Reopens Melbourne Jewelry Store

The extravagant chandelier inside Tiffany's CBD store

 By Aaron Weinman

The international-jewelry brand Tiffany & Co has reopened its Collins street store after a 10-month-renovation. 

The new store encompasses three levels totalling approximately 1,250 square metres of retail space.

According to managing director of Tiffany & Co Australia, Glen Schlehuber, “The store closed-temporarily to undertake major-redevelopment from October 2010. During this time we traded from a temporary store until the doors of the newly redeveloped store opened,” Schlehuber said.

Tiffany & Co. Foundation announce $5,000,000 Challenge grant to Friends of the High Line

The Tiffany & Co. Foundation is proud to announce a $5,000,000 challenge grant to Friends of the High Line, to support the preservation of, and public access to, the rail yards section of the High Line, the third and final section of the acclaimed New York City park. The challenge grant to Friends of the High Line was-announced in June 2011 at the official ope ning of Section 2 of the High Line. The first section of this innovative and transformational urban space opened in 2009.

Christie’s New York Announces Important Jewels Auction

New York,  Reported by Elite Traveler, the Private Jet Lifestyle Magazine

Christie’s has revealed highlights from its upcoming Important Jewels sale, which will take place at the auction house’s New York- outpost on June 14. The New York auction follows Christie’s highly successful sale in Geneva, which garnered $78 million last week.

The Important- Jewels auction is an annual pre-summer event for the house, capping off a spring season of major jewelry sales that includes events in Hong Kong, Paris and London as well. The New York sale will feature more than 120 individual pieces, with a diverse range of both colored and colorless diamonds, rare gemstones and signed designer baubles, valued from $2,000 up to $2.5 million. The total sale is expected to bring in $8 million. 

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