Tiffany & Co. and Sotheby’s Team Up on a Pop-Up and Auction Series
If you’re looking to add some Tiffany & Co. keepsakes to your collection, these are the events for you.
As part of Sotheby’s Design Week, the auction house is hosting a number of sales in partnership with Tiffany, three of which focus on rare heritage objects from the New York-based brand, WWD reports. And better still: The events will coincide with an exclusive pop-up that showcases the company’s collaboration with the César Foundation, a collection that offers up unique takes on traditional tableware and other pieces inspired by the creations of French sculptor César.
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At the Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios, Featuring Property From The Metropolitan Museum of Art sale, for example, you can expect to find items that celebrate Tiffany’s storied glass designs, including its highly collectible lamps and ornate enamel-covered boxes. You could also snag some of the jeweler’s detailed glass windows, like the 1910 Parrots and Hibiscus offering, estimated to fetch between $400,000 and $600,000.
“This impressive assemblage features masterpieces and new discoveries across every major discipline—ranging from lamps and windows to Favrile glass, rare ‘fancy goods,’ objects, jewelry and paintings,” Jodi Pollack, Sotheby’s chairman and co-worldwide head of 20th-century design, told WWD. “The market has not seen such an extensive offering in over a decade, starting with the landmark sale of the Danner Memorial Window, and we are thrilled to celebrate Tiffany’s remarkable artistry across these exciting sales.”
As for the Tiffany & Co. x Fondation César collection, it’s just the jeweler’s latest partnership in its long line of collaborations with noted artists. This particular range centers on César’s Assiette Brisee pattern, a motif that mimics the look of shattered china on unbroken porcelain that was originally introduced in 1973. The holiday collection resurrects three of these vintage Assiette Brisee patterns on an array of teacups and saucers, while also riffing on other elements of César’s work for a bevy of teaspoons, charger, and candlesticks in gold-tone metal.
“César was fascinated with the idea of repurposing and recontextualizing,” Stephanie Busuttil-Janssen, founder and president of the César Foundation, said in a statement. “He took the idea of a broken plate and applied a new vision. His kitchen walls and ceiling were covered with white and blue broken plates, classic ceramics that he found in the market. It was beautiful. Even his garden featured broken plates – it’s something that is very César.”
That’s your new holiday china sorted, then.
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