Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780525621638
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2021
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US


Description:
The Cartiers is the captivating tale of the family behind the Cartier empire as told by a granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives.



"A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash . . . This elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark."-The Economist




The "astounding" (Andre Leon Talley) story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather's humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon-as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives



"Ms. Cartier Brickell has done her grandfather proud."-The Wall Street Journal



The Cartiers isthe revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty-four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s.At its heart are the three Cartier brothers whose motto was "Never copy, only create" and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary talents- Louis, the visionary designer who created the first men's wristwatch to help an aviator friend tell the time without taking his hands off the controls of his flying machine; Pierre, the master dealmaker who bought the New York headquarters on Fifth Avenue for a double-stranded natural pearl necklace; and Jacques, the globe-trotting gemstone expert whose travels to India gave Cartier access to the world's best rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, inspiring the celebrated Tutti Frutti jewelry.




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