APO or FPO addresses, please contact Customer Service at 8 To inquire about shipments within the U.S. Please allow an additional 1-2 days for delivery of standard engraved items and an additional 3-4 days for delivery of monogrammed and hand-engraved items. Next-day delivery is not offered for watches or personalized items. Sunday and holiday delivery is not available. If you require Saturday delivery, please call Customer Service to confirm. Orders placed on Friday before 3:00PM EST will be delivered Monday. Orders placed before 3:00PM EST Monday through Thursday will be delivered on the following day. $30 without signature confirmation or $35 with signature confirmation Items ordered together may not always ship together. is able to accept post office box addresses for your billing needs.įor each address within the United States, the following charges apply: does not ship orders to post office boxes. To ensure the secure delivery of your order, Tiffany & Co. Displaying a different design and aesthetic (but equally chic) is this exquisite diamond and ruby ring from the 1930s.Currently we are only able to accept online orders to shipping addresses within the United States, and do not ship internationally. A lovely recent example is this circa-2000 platinum engagement ring. The trademark Tiffany® Setting raises the stone above the band on six prongs, allowing its facets to catch the light. helped put diamonds on the map in 1886 by introducing the American marketplace to the solitaire diamond design, which is still among the most popular engagement-ring styles. Cut to create a 128.54-carat gem with an unprecedented 82 facets, it is one of the most spectacular examples of a yellow diamond in the world.
The firm bought the Tiffany diamond in its raw state from the Kimberley mines of South Africa in 1878. Tiffany is also closely associated with diamonds, even lending its name to one particularly rare and exceptional yellow stone. The firm produced distinctive objects inspired by Japanese art and design, North American plants and flowers, and Native American patterns and crafts, adding aesthetic diversity to Tiffany & Co.’s distinguished repertoire. Under his leadership, the Tiffany silver studio was a de facto design school for apprentice silversmiths, who worked alongside head artisan Edward C. When Charles Lewis Tiffany died, in 1902, his son Louis Comfort Tiffany became the firm’s design director. Among the firm’s glittering creations from this time are masterworks of Art Nouveau jewelry, such as this delicate aquamarine necklace and this lavish plique-à-jour peridot and gold necklace, both circa 1900. They also won the firm numerous accolades, including the grand prize for silverware at the Paris Exposition of 1878. Throughout this period, its designs for silver tableware, ceremonial silver, flatware and jewelry were highly sought-after indicators of status and taste. opened its flagship store, described as a "palace of jewels" by the New York Times, at 15 Union Square West in Manhattan. From then on, it belonged to the pantheon of American luxury brands.Īt the start of the Gilded Age, in 1870, Tiffany & Co. firm to win an award for excellence in silverware at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. gained international recognition when it became the first U.S. In 1853, Charles Tiffany - who in 1845 had launched the company’s famed catalog, the Blue Book, and with it, the firm’s signature robin’s-egg blue, which he chose for the cover - shifted the focus to fine jewelry. Young founded it in Connecticut as a “stationery and fancy goods emporium” in 1837, at a time when European imports still dominated the nascent American luxury market. And Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis preferred Tiffany china for state dinners at the White House.Īlthough synonymous with luxury today, the firm started out rather modestly. Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Astors and members of the Russian imperial family all wore Tiffany & Co. A young Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed to his future wife, Eleanor, with a Tiffany ring in 1904. is one of the most prominent purveyors of luxury goods in the United States, and has long been an important arbiter of style in the design of diamond engagement rings.
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