November 13, 2014

Cartier Exhibition Features Pieces Once Owned By Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly


                                                                 




                                                                         
Two stunningly beautiful women. Two stunningly beautiful pieces of jewellery!
One was a Dame, the other a Princess. Both were Hollywood legends.
JEWELLERY worn by Elizabeth Taylor and Princess Grace are among the items created by Cartier that are going on display in Denver. 
BRILLIANT: Cartier in the 20th Century, which opens at the Denver Art Museum on Sunday, chronicles the rise of the Paris-based jeweller from 1900 to 1975.

It shows how its creations both mirrored changes in society and helped pioneer new styles through wars, the growing independence of women and interest in designs from beyond the West.
 
The pieces include Grace Kelly's 10.5-carat engagement ring which she polished on screen in the 1956 musical High Society, just before becoming Princess Grace of Monaco.
 
The items, are among 250 jewels, timepieces and other luxury accessories crafted by the Paris-based jeweller, some of them rarely seen by the public,taken from Cartier's collection. 
The display shows how Cartier's creations both mirrored changes in society and helped pioneer styles through wars, the growing independence of women and interest in designs from beyond the West.
 
Princess Grace's ring, a 64-carat diamond necklace, and an example of the yellow gold jewellery she favoured in private - a brooch of a mother bird atop a nest of pearl eggs - appear in the show's finale focused women who embraced Cartier during the last century.
 
They include Elizabeth Taylor, whose ruby-and-diamond necklace from second husband Mike Todd is on display.
                                                               
 
The show runs through March 15.
                                                                      
With thanks to The Daily Telegraph
Picture credit for Ruby Necklace: AzGem
Picture Credit for Grace Kelly’s ring: Alson Jewelers

                                                               


                                                                   

                                                                    


                                                                             


                                                                  

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