![]() ![]() In 1853, Charles Tiffany - who in 1845 had launched the company’s famed catalogue, the Blue Book, and with it, the firm’s signature robin’s-egg blue, which he chose for the cover - shifted the focus to fine jewellery. Young founded it in Connecticut as a “stationery and fancy goods emporium” in 1837, at a time when European imports still dominated the nascent American luxury market. ![]() And Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis preferred Tiffany china for state dinners at the White House.Īlthough synonymous with luxury today, the firm started out rather modestly. Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Astors and members of the Russian imperial family all wore Tiffany & Co. ![]() A young Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed to his future wife, Eleanor, with a Tiffany ring in 1904. is one of the most prominent purveyors of luxury goods in the United States, and has long been an important arbiter of style in the design of diamond engagement rings. ![]()
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