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ROCK STARS

Birmingham Mail

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April 17, 2025

Diamonds are a girl's best friend and now they're dazzling in a new exhibition dedicated to Cartier, jeweller of the stars and royalty.

- By SARAH TULLOCH and SIOBHAN MCNALLY

ROCK STARS

global empire. Then aged 18, 15, and nine, they split the world into three regions. Louis would run Europe, Pierre the US, and Jacques would open a store in London.

"You see very early on this amazing future vision that the family had," says exhibition curator Helen Molesworth. “We've got 200 years of a company which has created objects that are ahead of their time, yet they're timeless.”

Before it became the luxury brand of choice for film stars, Cartier was, as King Edward VII called it, “the jeweller of kings and king of jewellers”, awarding it his royal warrant.

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