Case Study | Elsa Peretti for Tiffany - her design aesthetic & legacy
Tiffany needs no introduction, the quintessential American jeweller with a worldwide reputation for glamour and style. The King of Diamonds - Charles Lewis Tiffany helped define legendary jewelry design as we know it and established the diamond engage Elsa Peretti Design Aesthetic There is no new design, because good lines and shapes are timeless. Her designs were as individualistic as Elsa herself. Peretti’s designs invite touch. Inspired by found objects, bones, beans, tears, and the like, her designs elicit emotion, and are intended to be lived with and loved, not admired from a distance. Restraint—that rare talent of knowing how to strip a design down to its essence, paired with the confidence to leave it that way—was central to Peretti’s genius.