Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Floral Pearl Crystals Double Strands Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large Flourish Floral Flower Leaf White Pearl Crystals Pendant Double Strands Layer Chain Choker Elegant Necklace, Gold Plated Very good condition. Ligh...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Aqua Blue Double Crystals Triangle Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Aqua Light Blue Double Crystals Triangle Clip Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Rare to find. 100% Genuine. A very beautiful ...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Gold Baroque Carved Crystals Heart Openwork Brooch
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Baroque White Clear Crystals Heart Love Openwork Carved Elegant Brooch, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. 100% genuine. A unique piece. This is gold ...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Rose Pearls Crystals Openwork Strands Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Rose Flower Openwork Crystals Pendant Beads Pearls Five 5 Layers Strands Balls Choker Collar Elegant Necklace, Gold Tone Very good condition. Not any st...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Flower Leaf Crystals Elegant Pierced Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Vivid Cluster Flower Leaf Crystals Elegant Modernist Pierced Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. 100% Genuine. A very beautiful pair of earri...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Brush Moon Crescent Sparkling Star Crystals Brooch
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Textured Brush Moon Crescent Sparkling Shining Star Crystals Modernist Elegant Brooch, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Very new. 100% genuine...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Gripoix Green Emerald Crystal Crescent Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1970s Unisex Gripoix Emerald Green Rectangle Crystals Moon Crescent Pendant Elegant Modernist Necklace, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Maybe colour loss ...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Unisex Rare Gold Crystals Shell Triangle Diamond Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Shell Triangle Diamond Crystals Modenrist Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition. Light scratches, barely noticeable. 100% genuine. A ver...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Unisex Gold Oval Whole Crystals Black Enamel Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Oval Whole Crystal Black Enamel Elegant Modenrist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Excellent condition. Very new. 100% genuine. A very beautiful pair of...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Black Enamel Crystals Spiral Twist Long Brooch
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Black Enamel Crystals Long Leaf Bar Spiral Twist Elegant Modenist Brooch, Gold Tone Renowned for its timeless elegant designs, Christian Dior pre...
Gold Plate, Enamel
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Crystals Rectangle Row Woven Mesh Omega Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Trio 3 Rectangle Row Crystals Woven Mesh Omega Rope Modernist Elegant Necklace, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Maybe light scratches or colo...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Crystals Rope Black Triangle Double Strands Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Black Enamel Triangles Crystals Crescent Bar Double Layers Strands Modernist Choker Necklace, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Not any stones ...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Gold White Pearl Crystals Large Magnolia Brooch
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Wavy Blossom Flourish Flower Magnolia White Circle Round Pearl Crystals Elegant Brooch, Gold Tone Very excellent condition and very new. 100% Genuine. ...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold White Pearls Crystals Strands Elegant Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Double Layers Strands Openwork Flower Crystals White Beads Round Pearls Choker Collar Elegant Modernist Necklace, Gold Tone Very good condition. Not any...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Crystals Black Enamel Leaf Feather Chunky Brooch
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Huge Large Vivid Textured Black Enamel Crystals Feather Leaf Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Very new. Rare to find. 100% ...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Blue Gold Sapphire Flower Leaf Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Cluster Sapphire Navy Blue Flower Leaf Crystals Cute Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. 100% Genuine. Rare to find. A...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Large Heart Love Crystals Pendant Chain Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage Unisex 1980s Large Heart Clear Crystals Pendant Chain Elegant Necklace, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Light scratches of colour loss, barely noticeable....
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Yellow Topaz Crystals Water Drop Peacock Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Topaz Yellow Crystals Tear Water Drop Peacock Eye Modernist Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition. 100% Genuine. Rare to find. A very be...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Large Round White Pearl Crystals Gold Elegant Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large Round Circle White Pearl Crystals Drop Modernist Elegant Necklace, Gold Plated Very good condition. Very beautiful. Very light scratches and peel ...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Large Gold Crystals White Oval Pearl Elegant Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large White Oval Pearl Crystals Pendant Elegant Modernist Necklace, Gold Plated Very excellent condition. 100% Genuine. Marked 'Chr.Dior (C) '. It is a...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Huge Octagon White Oval Pearl Crystals Chunky Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Huge Extra Large Octagon Rectangle White Oval Pearl Sparkling Crystals Elegant Modernist Chunky Statement Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition. ...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Large Black Double Crystals Hoop Chunky Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large Black Enamel Double Crystals Dome Hoop Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Very new. 100% genuine. A very beaut...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Baroque Gold Crystals Heart Openwork Clip Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Baroque Crystals Heart Love Openwork Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Very rare to find. 100% genuine. A very beaut...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Crystals Cross X Interlocked Omega Ribbed Bracelet
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Crystals Cross Interlocked Charm Adjustable Omega Ribbed Rope Chain Modernist Bracelet, Gold Tone Good condition. Not any stones lost, but some a...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gold Clear Crystal Spiral Modernist Clip Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Sparkling Large Clear White Round Crystal Spiral Bar Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Light scratches or colo...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Large Oval White Pearl Crystals Pendant Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large Oval White Pearl Curled Bar Crystals Drop Pendant Elegant Necklace, Gold Plated Very excellent condition. 100% Genuine. Rare to find. Marked 'Chr....
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gripoix Crystals Gold Emerald Domed Hoop Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gripoix Double Crystals Emerald Green Rectangle Dome Half Hoop Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition. Not any stones lost. Ligh...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior 1970s Vintage Gold Crystals Palm Mushroom Layer Chunky Brooch
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1970s Vintage Large Double Layer Palm Leaf Mushroom Crystals Exquisite Chunky Brooch, Gold Tone Very good condition. Only very Light scratches at back, barely noticea...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Red Ruby Cube Circle Crystals Triangle Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Ruby Red Cube Circle Crystals Triangle Pendant Elegant Modernist Necklace, Gold Plated Very good condition. Light scratches or colour loss. 100% Genuine...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Iconic Gold Large Glow Red Pansy Crystal Chunky Brooch
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large Glow Red Flower Pansy Crystal Chunky Statement Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Only light colour loss at back. 100%...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s White Pearls Crystals Gold Elegant 2 Set
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Double White Round Pearls Crystals Elegant Jewellery Gift 2 Set Necklace Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Almost new, only small dark near ...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Crystals Orange Black Clear Sunflower 2 Set
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Orange Enamel Black Clear Crystals Sunflower Flower Pendant Elegant Modernist 2 Gift Jewellery Set Necklace Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent cond...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Baroque Crystals Gold Heart Openwork Love Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Baroque Crystals Heart Love Openwork Pendant Elegant Modenrist Necklace, Gold Plated Very good condition. Light scratches or colour loss, barely noticea...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Iconic Gold Unisex Crystals Wide Mesh Woven Omega Chunky Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Whole Crystals Pendant Wide Mesh Woven Omega Chunky Statement Modernist Necklace, Gold Plated Very good condition. Light scratches or colour loss...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior GROSSE 1985 Triangle Gold Crystals Milanese Woven Chunky 2 Set
By Henkel and Grosse for Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior GROSSE 1985 Vintage Luxury Triangle Onyx Black Enamel Whole Crystals Radiant Milanese Woven Omega Mesh Chain Exquisite Elegant Modernist Chunky Statement Collar Pendan...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gold Ruby Red Triangle Shield Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Ruby Red Triangle Shield Crystals Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Very new. Very light chip on one earrings, barely...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Water Drop White Pearl Crystals Gold Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s White Pearl Crystals Water Tear Drop Pendant Elegant Modernist Necklace, Gold Plated Very good condition. 100% Genuine. Rare to find. Marked 'Chr.Dior (...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage White Bow Pearl Crystals Tear Water Drop Gold Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Crystals Bow White Pearl Teardrop Water Drop Pendant Elegant Modernist Necklace, Gold Plated Very excellent condition. 100% Genuine. Constructed from p...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Black Crystals Water Drop Openwork Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Black Enamel Crystals Double Water Tear Drop Openwork Elegant Modernist Necklace, Gold Tone Renowned for its timeless elegant designs, Christian Dior pr...
Gold Plate, Enamel
Christian Dior Vintage Gripoix Ruby Sapphire Emerald Crystals Leaf Gold Brooch
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gripoix Crystals Sapphire Ruby Emerald Blue Navy Red Green Shining Sparking Crystals Openwork Wavy Leaf Chunky Statement Brooch, Gold Tone Very good con...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Diamond Beige White Cream Enamel Crystals Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Diamond Beige Custard White Enamel V Triangle Arrow Crystals Pendant Necklace, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Marked 'Chr.Dior (C) '. 100% g...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gold Ruby Red Diamond Crystals Elegant Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Ruby Red Diamond Triangle Crystals Pendant Elegant Modernist Necklace, Gold Plated Very good condition. Not any colour loss except the clasp. 100% Genui...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Large Gold White Crystals Domed Hoop Elegant Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large White Enamel Double Crystals Domed Gold Half Hoop Chunky Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Maybe very light scr...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gold Crystals Moon Crescent Water Drop Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Petite Whole Crystals Moon Crescent Water Drop Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Good condition. Not any stones lost. Scratches or colour loss, still ver...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Iconic Gold Black Enamel Flower Leaf Crystals Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Black Enamel Flower Leaf Crystals Pendant Modernist Necklace, Gold Plated Very excellent condition. 100% Genuine. Marked 'Chr.Dior (C) '. Materi...
Gold Plate, Enamel
Christian Dior Vintage Large Iconic CD Crystals Cocktail Statement Ring 6
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large Logo CD Double Side Shining Crystals Halo Cocktail Statement Chunky Elegant Modernist Ring, US 6, Silver Tone Very excellent condition. Very new. ...
Silver Plate
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gold Oval White Pearl Flower Crystals Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Oval Pearl Flower Crystals Pendant Elegant Modernist Necklace, Gold Plated Very excellent condition and very new. Not any scratches or colour loss. 100%...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Gold Crystals Flower White Round Pearl Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Vivid Curled Flower White Round Pearl Crystals Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. 100% Genuine. Vintage and rare to find. A very beauti...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Gold White Round Pearls Crystals Pendant Elegant Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Four 4 White Round Pearls Crystals Pendant Elegant Modernist Necklace, Gold Plated Very excellent condition. Maybe light scratches or colour loss at cha...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Unisex Rare Peacock Eye Water Drop Crystals Silver Set
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Peacock Eye Water Drop Whole White Crystals Elegant Modernist 2 Jewellery Gift Set Earrings Brooch Pin, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Not ...
Silver Plate
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Filigree Bow Crystals Gold Butterfly Elegant Brooch
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Vivid Butterfly Crystals Openwork Filigree Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. 100% genuine. A unique piece. This is gold pla...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Sapphire Navy Crystals Moons Water Drop Omega Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Sapphire Navy Blue Double Crystals Moons Water Drop Pendant Snake Omega Elegant Necklace, Gold Plated Very excellent condition. Very new. 100% Genuine. ...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Crystals Silver Double Round Circle Drop Clip Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Double Clear White Circle Round Crystals Drop Clip Earrings, Silver Plated Front side is in very good condition. Light scratches or colour loss at back....
Silver Plate
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gold White Round Pearl Crystals Floral Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Floral Flower Sunburst White Round Pearl Marquise Crystals Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition. Very light scratches on faux pearls, ba...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Rare Black Enamel Crystals Chunky Hoop Domed Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Black Enamel Crystals Oval Hoop Domed Chunky Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Good condition. 100% genuine. Some light scratches, some colour ...
Gold Plate, Enamel
Christian Dior Vintage Rare Black Crystals Carved Scalloped Melon Hinge Link Set
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1985 Unisex Black Wide Hinge Links Crystals Carved Scalloped Melon Exquisite Chunky Statement Collar Collar Necklace Dome Clip Earrings 2 Jewellery Gift Set, S...
Silver Plate
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Crystals Square Choker Pendant Omega Gold Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Crystals Sparkling Square Pendant Omega Choker Collar Necklace, Gold Plated Very excellent condition. 100% Genuine. Marked 'Chr.Dior (C) '. Rare to fin...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Gold White Pearl Wavy Flower Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Wavy Flower White Round Pearl Crystals Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition. 100% Genuine. Vintage and rare to find. A very beautiful p...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold White Pearl Oval Crystals Omega Collar Necklace
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Oval White Pearl Crystals Omega Adjustable Collar Choker Elegant Necklace, Gold Plated Very excellent condition. Marked 'Chr.Dior (C) '. 100% Genuine. ...
Gold Plate
Christian Dior Vintage Rare Large Gold Red Pansy Crystals Chunky Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large Glow Red Enamel Flower Pansy Clear Crystal Chunky Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Very new. Rare to find. 100% genuine. A very...
Gold Plate, Enamel
When Christian Dior launched his couture house, in 1946, he wanted nothing less than to make “an elegant woman more beautiful and a beautiful woman more elegant.” He succeeded, and in doing so the visionary designer altered the landscape of 20th century fashion. Vintage Dior bags, shoes, evening dresses, shirts and other garments and accessories are known today for their feminine and sophisticated sensibility.
Dior was born in Granville, on the Normandy coast, in 1905. His prosperous haute bourgeois parents wanted him to become a diplomat despite his interest in art and architecture. However, they agreed to bankroll an art gallery, which Dior opened in 1928 in Paris with a friend.
This was the start of Dior’s rise in the city’s creative milieu, where he befriended Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. After seven years as an art dealer, Dior retrained as a fashion illustrator, eventually landing a job as a fashion designer for Robert Piguet, and in 1941, following a year of military service, he joined the house of Lucien Lelong. Just five years later, with the backing of industrialist Marcel Boussac, the ascendant Dior established his own fashion house, at 30 avenue Montaigne in Paris.
Just two years after the end of World War II, the fashion crowd and the moribund haute couture industry were yearning, comme tout Paris, for security and prosperity, desperate to discard the drab, sexless, utilitarian garb imposed by wartime deprivation. They needed to dream anew.
And Dior delivered: He designed a collection for a bright, optimistic future. “It’s quite a revolution, dear Christian!” exclaimed Carmel Snow, the prescient American editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, famously proclaiming, “Your dresses have such a new look.” The press ran with the description, christening Dior’s debut Spring/Summer haute couture collection the New Look. “God help those who bought before they saw Dior,” said Snow. “This changes everything.”
Dior’s collection definitively declared that opulence, luxury and femininity were in. His skirts could have 40-meter-circumference hems, and outfits could weigh up to 60 pounds. They were cut and shaped like architecture, on strong foundations that molded women and “freed them from nature,” Dior said. Rather than rationing, his ladies wanted reams of fabric and 19-inch waists enforced by wire corsets, and the fashion world concurred. The debut got a standing ovation.
In the subsequent decade, Paris ruled as the undisputed fashion capital of the world, and Christian Dior reigned as its king. With the luxuriously full skirts of his New Look, suits and his drop-dead gorgeous couture dresses and ball gowns worthy of any princess, Dior gave women the gift of glamour they’d lost in the miserable years of war.
On 1stDibs, find an exquisite range of vintage Christian Dior clothing, jewelry, handbags and other items.
Gold is the feel-good metal, the serotonin of jewelry. Wear vintage and antique gold necklaces, watches, gold bracelets or gold rings and you feel happy, you feel dressed, you feel, well, yourself.
Gold, especially yellow gold, with its rich patina and ancient pedigree going back thousands of years, is the steady standby, the well-mannered metal of choice. Any discussion of this lustrous metal comes down to a basic truth: Gold is elementary, my dear. Gold jewelry that couples the mystique of the metal with superb design and craftsmanship achieves the status of an enduring classic. Many luxury houses have given us some of our most treasured and lasting examples of gold jewelry over the years.
Since its founding, in 1837, Tiffany & Co. has built its reputation on its company jewelry as well as its coterie of boutique designers, which has included Jean Schlumberger, Donald Claflin, Angela Cummings and Elsa Peretti. There are numerous gold Tiffany classics worth citing. Some are accented with gemstones, but all stand out for their design and the workmanship displayed.
For the woman who prefers a minimalist look, the Tiffany & Co. twist bangle (thin, slightly ovoid) is stylishly simple. For Cummings devotees, signature pieces feature hard stone inlay, such as her pairs of gold ear clips inlaid with black jade (a play on the classic Chanel black and tan), or bangles whose design recalls ocean waves, with undulating lines of lapis lazuli and mother-of-pearl. And just about any design by the great Jean Schlumberger is by definition a classic.
Even had he eschewed stones and diamonds, Southern-born David Webb would be hailed for the vast arsenal of heavy gold jewelry he designed. Gold, usually hammered or textured in some manner, defines great David Webb jewelry. The self-taught jeweler made very au courant pieces while drawing inspiration from ancient and out-of-the-way sources — East meets West in the commanding gold necklaces made by Webb in the early 1970s. The same could be said for his endlessly varied gold cuffs.
In Europe, many houses have given us gold jewelry that sets the highest standard for excellence, pieces that were highly sought after when they were made and continue to be so.
Numerous designs from Cartier are homages to gold. There are the classic Trinity rings, necklaces and bracelets — trifectas of yellow, white and rose gold. As a testament to the power of love, consider the endurance of the Cartier Love bracelet.
Aldo Cipullo, Cartier’s top in-house designer from the late 1960s into the early ’70s, made history in 1969 with the Love bracelet. Cipullo frequently said that the Love bracelet was born of a sleepless night contemplating a love affair gone wrong and his realization that “the only remnants he possessed of the romance were memories.” He distilled the urge to keep a loved one close into a slim 18-karat gold bangle.
BVLGARI and its coin jewelry, gemme nummarie, hit the jackpot when the line launched in the 1960s. The line has been perennially popular. BVLGARI coin jewelry features ancient Greek and Roman coins embedded in striking gold mounts, usually hung on thick link necklaces of varying lengths. In the 1970s, BVLGARI introduced the Tubogas line, most often made in yellow gold. The Tubogas watches are classics, and then there is the Serpenti, the house's outstanding snake-themed watches and bracelets.
A collection called Monete that incorporated the gold coins is one of several iconic BVLGARI lines that debuted in the 1970s and ’80s, catering to a new generation of empowered women. Just as designers like Halston and Yves Saint Laurent were popularizing fuss-free ready-to-wear fashion for women on the go, BVLGARI offered jewels to be lived in.
Since Van Cleef & Arpels opened its Place Vendôme doors in 1906, collection after collection of jewelry classics have enchanted the public. As predominantly expressed in a honeycomb of gold, there is the Ludo watch and accessories, circa the 1920s, and the golden Zip necklace, 1951, whose ingenious transformation of the traditional zipper was originally proposed by the Duchess of Windsor. Van Cleef's Alhambra, with its Moroccan motif, was introduced in 1968 and from the start its popularity pivoted on royalty and celebrity status. It remains one of VCA’s most popular and collected styles.
Mention must be made of Buccellati, whose name is synonymous with gold so finely spun that it suggests tapestry. The house’s many gold bracelets, typically embellished with a few or many diamonds, signified taste and distinction and are always in favor on the secondary market. Other important mid-20th-century houses known for their gold-themed jewelry include Hermès and Ilias Lalaounis.
Find a stunning collection of vintage and antique gold jewelry on 1stDibs.
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