Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Architect Frank Gehry Designs Jewelry for Tiffany & Co


Frank Gehry’s buildings are widely known and celebrated worldwide, with his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain taking a large piece of the credit for that city’s newly achieved prominence on the world stage.

Although designing a line of jewelry for Tiffany & Co. might seem odd at first, the pairing turned out a success. Gehry often designs the preliminary ideas for his buildings in messy, rough sketches, eventually transformed into buildable models by his staff, and the process was likely similar for the jewelry. Tiffany describes most of his pieces as containing an “inner energy” and the label certainly fits when Gehry’s jewelry is contrasted with what you’d normally find in a Tiffany’s store.