It began with a 128.54-carat fancy yellow diamond, renowned as the largest and finest yellow diamond in the world at the time. Tiffany & Co’s Jean Schlumberger had just begun 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 show’s. This was the moment that cut it for Schlumberger’s career.
