Tiffany’s 2015 Blue Book arrives with a breathtaking celebration of the sea in all its power and mystery. The epitome of the jeweler’s art, these one-of-a-kind creations flow with the force of nature, launching the legacy of Blue Book into a new season of glamour.
Bracelet and ring from the Tiffany Blue Book 2015, The Art of the Sea $475,000,$200,000 © Carlton Davis
Blue Book is the single greatest showcase for Tiffany’s spectacular jewels. Its influence among collectors and connoisseurs is legendary. The 2015 collection, Design Director Francesca Amfitheatrof’s first, combines audacious style with fluid grace and the sea’s boundless energy.
“Our Blue Book jewellery honours the sea as the source of life and acknowledges the many ways we are inexorably linked to the natural world,” Amfitheatrof says. Her dazzling tribute to the sea and its beauty also reflects the mission of the Tiffany & Co. Foundation to support coral conservation and safeguard marine ecosystems, as well as the company’s commitment to responsible sourcing of diamonds and precious metals.
Tiffany diamonds surge through Blue Book like a rising tide of pure brilliance. Amfitheatrof creates whirlpools of baguette and round diamonds that flow along the neckline and drape the wrist. She designs a ring with pear-shaped diamonds layered like the feathers of seabirds riding the waves, and anchors waterfalls of diamonds with gleaming black opals.
The jeweler’s coloured diamonds are renowned for the highest standards of clarity and saturation. The pebble ring is noteworthy for its blue diamonds that number over four hundred. It is very unusual to acquire a wealth of such exceedingly rare stones. Each is hand-cut and set in a curvaceous mounting that reflects the sea’s power to sculpt stones over millennia. Other rings include a 3.03-carat Fancy Intense Blue diamond that beckons like a tropical isle; blue-green diamonds that blend the colours of sea and sky; and yellow diamonds sparkling like sunlight on the water.
Blue Book features Amfitheatrof’s magical interpretations of 19th-century designs from the Tiffany Archives. A pocket watch with an interlocking chain inspires a necklace of graduated links, flexible and covered in diamonds; and a Japanesque wavelike pattern forms elegant diamond bracelets with 18 karat gold.
Pearls are the natural treasures of Amfitheatrof’s fantastic undersea world. South Sea white, golden and Tahitian cultured pearls exemplify Tiffany’s reputation for the most exotic and beautiful gems on earth. Matched for size and colour, these lustrous spheres are assembled in luxurious strands; mounted in rings that bubble with light; and are suspended from 18 karat gold bracelets with diamonds undulating like the ocean’s currents.
Tiffany’s gemstones radiate a colourful splendor, reflecting a heritage of discovery and innovation. Amfitheatrof builds on it with magnificent bracelets featuring a 21.04-carat aquamarine surrounded by spessartites, tsavorites and sapphires floating over a seabed of aquamarines; and a 32.05-carat rubellite, an underlay of pink sapphires and diamonds in a coral motif.
Other Blue Book jewels explore the sea’s hypnotic movement and the varying colours created as light penetrates water. These include earrings with blue tourmalines shimmering like sea spray; a ring with many sapphires, shades of paradise swirling around a 21.66-carat chrysocolla; rings of blue-violet tanzanites polished by the wind and waves; a sapphire and diamond bracelet glinting with the colours of rivers and rapids; and a necklace of aquamarines and turquoise in a lush, organic formation.
“Blue Book is an important symbol of Tiffany & Co.,” says Amfitheatrof. “Its rich heritage draws the finest artisans, who create a world of luxury that no other jeweler can equal. To design this important collection with these talented people and the most extraordinary gems is an honour and a privilege.”
Blue Book 2015
