Elsa Peretti for Halston Solid Perfume Bean Pendant Necklace

Name: Elsa Peretti for Halston Solid Perfume Bean Pendant Necklace
Brand: Elsa Peretti
Price: 1200 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Here's an extremely rare, iconic functional pendant with (still!) original solid Halston perfume from the 1980s by Elsa Peretti for Halston. Believe the solid perfume color has darkened over the years - smells wonderful!! About 18" long. This listing is for the bean necklace only. The Elsa Peretti for Halston heart pendant necklace, filled with Halston solid perfume is also for sale. We were joking that these two are overjoyed to have found each other, so we took photos of the two together lol. They will be listed as a pair, and also individually. Please note that there is only ONE OF EACH. This is the original chain + necklace. During the decadent Studio 54 era, Elsa Peretti (1940 - 2021) of Tiffany and Co. created this for her good friend Halston (1932 - 1990). Unlike the current bean by Elsa Peretti Tiffany is selling, this original item is actually functional, with about 10%(?) unused Halston solid perfume inside, which of course can be replaced by your favorite solid perfume afterward. Absolutely stunning! So bold and so chic. Extremely rare. Fantastic with any outfit, from an evening dress to an oversized men's shirt and jeans! Timeless collectible. This perfume is used but the pendant is in excellent condition. Please know that the pendant is extremely well made BUT it is not sterling silver. Necklace only. Flora Kung dresses are listed separately. We also offer express worldwide shipping. Please contact us for a quote. Only one!

Creator:

Elsa Peretti

Dimensions:

Width: 2.25 in (57.15 mm)Depth: 0.3 in (7.62 mm)Length: 1.25 in (31.75 mm)

Style:

Modernist

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1980-1989

Date of Manufacture:

1980

Condition:

Original Halston solid perfume is about 10%. Can use a cleaning.

Seller Location:

Boston, MA

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU925119693312

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Elsa Peretti

In an era of social upheaval, venerable Tiffany & Co. designer Elsa Peretti reimagined diamonds as jewelry that working women bought for themselves rather than receiving it from a suitor.

By the time the Italian-born Peretti arrived in New York City, she’d already studied design in Rome, worked for a Milanese architect and taught Italian, French and skiing in Switzerland. She settled on interior design as her potential career path but then chose an altogether different route: modeling. Peretti modeled in Barcelona, Spain, and on the advice of Wilhelmina Cooper — a former model who’d by then founded Wilhelmina Modeling Agency — moved to Manhattan in 1968. When she relocated, Peretti was inspired to pick up jewelry design.

After modeling for designer Halston, the undisputed fashion king of Studio 54, Peretti became his close friend and collaborator, eventually creating jewelry and teardrop-shaped perfume bottles for him. By way of her association with Halston, Peretti took to the disco scene, flourishing in a social circle that included artist Andy Warhol and fashion designer Giorgio di Sant’Angelo.

It wasn’t long before models on di Sant’Angelo’s runway were donning two-inch sterling-silver vases, complete with a rose stem, suspended on leather thongs around their necks. The accessory was Peretti’s inaugural piece of jewelry — she designed it in 1969 after finding a flower vase at a flea market. It was hardly the only time that Peretti found motifs in nature and in organic forms. In the years that followed, her Bean pendant necklace, Starfish earrings and other sensuous accessories would draw on human emotion as well as the natural world around her. Each evocative and wholly versatile design is universally adored decades later, and each was made for a storied American jewelry house with which Peretti would be associated for nearly 50 years.

It was Halston who introduced Peretti to Tiffany & Co. She had her own boutique at Bloomingdale’s by 1972, and her partnership with the firm, which signed the venturesome and unorthodox designer to an exclusive contract in 1974, would cement her place in the lofty annals of jewelry legend. Peretti’s simple but sophisticated designs — the Teardrop collection, her minimalist Diamonds by the Yard necklace and Open Heart ring, to name a few — elevated sterling silver, previously considered unsuitable for fine jewelry, and created an enthusiastic young audience for Tiffany’s offerings. In 1977, Peretti’s designs earned the jewelry house more than $6 million. (In some years, her work has accounted for 10 percent of the company’s sales.)

In 2012, Peretti signed a 20-year, $47.3 million contract with Tiffany & Co., but she passed away in 2021, at age 80. Today, her designs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the British Museum.

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