It began with a 128.54-carat Fancy Yellow diamond, which was renowned as the largest and finest yellow diamond in the world at the time. Tiffany & Co’s Jean Schlumberger had just begun his work at the company then under the chairmanship of Walter Hoving. One of his first artistic assignments was to create a high design for the famous Tiffany Diamond.
Archival sketches’s. This was the moment that cut it for Schlumberger’s career.