THE ART OF METAMORPHOSIS

Tiffany & Co.'s inaugural Bangkok exhibition celebrates the surreal genius of Jean Schlumberger, whose fantastical jewels transformed nature into wearable dreams.

- ABDUL AZIZ DRAIM

Jean Schlumberger's extraordinary legacy at Tiffany & Co. continues to captivate more than half a century after his revolutionary designs first graced the House's Fifth Avenue salon. Last summer, the Maison honoured his enduring influence with 'Legendary Legacy', its inaugural exhibition in Bangkok, presenting over fifty archival pieces that illuminate the visionary partnership between Schlumberger and the storied jeweller whose imagination transformed jewellery into wearable mythology.

Born in 1907 into a prominent family of textile manufacturers in Alsace, France, Schlumberger showed a gift for drawing early on, later creating designs that would redefine Twentieth-century jewellery. His journey to Tiffany began in the avant-garde salons of 1930s Paris, where he crafted buttons and costume pieces for Elsa Schiaparelli, the surrealist fashion pioneer. This early collaboration with one of the fashion world's most daring innovators would prove formative, establishing his aesthetic foundation of dreams made tangible.