Odeon Collection

Belle Epoque

Platinum was once too hard to shape into anything delicate — until Cartier's engineers studied the springs of railway sleeping cars and found their answer. What followed was a twenty-year run of di...

Art Nouveau

For Art Nouveau's jewelers, the dragonfly outranked the diamond. Twenty years of proving that craft, not carat weight, was where the real value lived.

Paris Fashion Week's Other Runway: The Jewelry

The clothes get the headlines. The jewelry, unveiled quietly on Place Vendôme the same week, gets the client — and the provenance.

Suzanne Belperron

Suzanne Belperron never signed her work — not out of modesty, but supreme confidence that her sweeping curves and architectural volumes needed no signature to be recognized. From her formative year...

Jeanne Toussaint - Cartier

Jeanne Toussaint arrived in Paris with nothing but ambition, became Louis Cartier's lifelong companion, and in 1933 was named the first woman ever to direct haute joaillerie at a major maison. Unde...

Aldo Cipullo

Aldo Cipullo arrived in New York with nothing but a jeweler's training from his father's Naples workshop and an eye sharpened at David Webb and Tiffany. When Tiffany rejected his sketch for a brace...