A Deep Dive into Tiffany’s Blue Book 2015 – The Art of the Sea

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Water has endless permutations. Never still, never the same, it is nature’s most changeable element, able to shift, shade and form movement and mood in a matter of moments. The jewels of the 2015 Blue Book capture water’s energetic and fluid soul, by turns shimmering and brilliant, moody and profound. – Francesca Amfitheatrof

Tiffany & Co.’s new Blue Book Collection, The Art of the Sea, is a mesmerising celebration of the sea’s multiple hues, tones and depths, in all its fascinating and scaring beauty.

When rays of light penetrate the sea, graduating hues are revealed. For the Blue Tourmaline Scale Ring, Tiffany designers and stone setters arranged blue tourmalines and white diamonds to evoke the colors of water at various depths.

Nature adorns the sea’s creatures with elegant fins so they can flow gracefully through the water. Their patterns and movements are an endless source of inspiration. F.A.

The Blue Tourmaline Scale Ring, in platinum and 18k gold, features a 14.98-carat cushion-cut blue tourmaline embraced by sapphire and diamond scales (12.98 and .51 carats).

Since 1837, Tiffany & Co. has been renowned for an unassailable standard of diamonds excellence. Covered in round brilliant diamonds, the flexible links of this Diamond Necklace cast sparkling light from every angle.

Blue Book brings the sea’s mythical creatures to life, I have woven the sinuous tentacles of the octopus into ribbon-like jewels of great fluidity and flexibility. F.A.

Inspired by an archival Tiffany design from the 19th century, this platinum necklace was painstakingly set by hand with hundreds of diamonds. Round brilliant diamonds, total carat weight 60.26.

Diving into a pool creates ever-widening circles of water. This bracelet evokes these undulating ripples, with diamonds that sparkle with every moment. F.A.

Tiffany artisans combined baguette and round brilliant diamonds in platinum to create this glamorous Diamond Bracelet. Diamonds, carat total weight 32.81.

Gold is the perfect material for highly sculptured settings that wrap gemstones with a rich, warm luster. F.A.

Diamonds flow to this magnificent stone like rivers rush to the sea. The 18k yellow gold curvaceous Tanzanite Ring setting is as dynamic as the natural world that inspired it. It surrounds a magnificent 23.03-carat, cabochon-cut tanzanite.

Long considered a symbol of royalty, Tahitian pearls are nurtured in the warm waters of the South Seas.

For this glamorous bracelet, Tahitian cultured pearls are combined with precisely graduated diamonds that undulate like the ocean’s currents. The bracelet was inspired by 1940s jewellery and is designed to be worn low on the wrist.

Tahitian cultured pearls and graduated diamonds circle this 18k white gold bracelet. Pealrs, 12-13 mm. Round brilliant diamonds, carat total weight 9.22

Tiffany’s legacy of sterling silver includes Japanesque pieces, objects inspired by Asian motifs. These flora and fauna-adorned creations were an influential force in modernizing American art and design in the late 19th century.

A hand-etched Japanesque flask from the Tiffany archives led Tiffany designer director to create this bold Japanesque Wave Bracelet. Her sketches of highly stylized waves were translated into swirls of 18k white and yellow gold and diamonds.

The bracelet features rose-cut diamonds in a highly stylized wave motif. For the right wrist. Diamonds, carat total weight 14.90

Tiffany’s colored diamonds are among the rarest in the world.

Tiffany’s colored diamonds are a brilliant dream. It gives me great pleasure to create beautiful designs with these natural wonders. F.A.

This Wave Ring features a 3.03-carat oval modified brilliant Fancy Intense Blue diamond cut with the utmost skill to maximize the stone’s deeply saturated color and natural radiance. White diamonds are then set in platinum around the fancy colored stone to evoke waves surrounding an island paradise shimmering on the horizon.

When rays of light penetrate the sea, graduating hues are revealed. For this Blue Spinel Scales Bracelet, Tiffany designers and stone setters arranged a blue spinel with sapphires and white diamonds to evoke the colors of water at various depths.

Nature adorns the sea’s creatures with elegant fins so they can flow gracefully through the water. Their patterns and movements are an endless source of inspiration. F.A.

A 17.64-carat cushion-cut blue spinel is surrounded by pear-shaped sapphires and diamond scales in this striking 18k gold and platinum bracelet. Sapphires total carat weight: 77.11; diamonds total carat weight: 11.63.

Tiffany’s design director Francesca Amfitheatrof captures the sea’s power to create beauty over millennia in this Blue Diamond Pebble Ring. Hundreds of blue diamonds are hand cut then painstakingly set in graduated sizes. The curvaceous creation evokes pebbles polished by sand, wind and water.

I combined diamonds and colorful gemstones in organic settings that suggest pebbles that have been shaped by the movement of the sea. F.A.

Round fancy blue diamonds in 18k white gold swirl outwards atop an 18k yellow gold band. Carat total weight: 5.10

There is great beauty in the flora found deep below the surface of the sea. This secret world inspired me to design colorful gardens blooming with brilliant gemstones. F.A.

A magnificent Rubellite Bracelet features the 32.05-carat cushion-cut central stone surrounded by a sea of pink sapphires and diamonds in 18k white gold, evoking the diversity of underwater life. Round pink sapphires total carat weight: 18.67; round diamonds total carat weight: 6.60.

For this Diamond Necklace, Tiffany design director was inspired by graceful divers and the fleeting beauty they create in the water.

Diving into a pool creates ever-widening circles of water. This pattern evokes these undulating ripples, with diamonds that sparkle with every movement. F.A.

Featuring various sizes of baguette and round brilliant diamonds, this one-of-a-kind design showcases the finest Tiffany artistry and craftmanship. Necklace in platinum. Diamonds total carat weight: 35.16.

The pattern of this mesmerizing Sapphire and Diamond Bracelet invoke the rythmic motion of waves breaking on a beach. Tiffany master craftsmen trace water’s hypnotic movement with a mosaic of Montana sapphires, blue sapphires and diamonds.

Blue Book 2015 explores the power of the sea. Just as water responds to wind, this bracelet responds to every movement. F.A.

Tiffany master craftsmen set each Montana and blue sapphire and diamond by hand to create this design’s subtle gradations in hue. Bracelet in platinum. Round Montana sapphires total carat weight: 15.37; blue sapphires total carat weight: 8.70; diamonds total carat weight: 3.54.

A sea of mixed-cut gemstones, including spessartites, tsavorites, sapphires and aquamarines evoke the diversity of deep-sea life.

Mixed-cut gemstones flow over aquamarines, surrounding a striking 21.04-carat center aquamarine in this 18k yellow and white gold bracelet, forming underlays of rich, radiant color. Spessartites total carat weight: 3.68; tsavorites total carat weight 2.56; saphires total carat weight: 0.71; small aquamarines total carat weight: 8.84; diamonds total carat weight: 2.05.

Edited by Claudia Carletti, Jewellery Through Time. All material and text belong to Tiffany & Co. Italic written sentences are quotes from Francesca Amfitheatrof.