Beautiful Design Makes a Beautiful Life: Tiffany & Co.
The huge bodies of water reflected the Metroid shower passing by. The eruptions resembled fancy fountains with red glitterous lava flowing into the sea. It seems like a party of chaos but the most beautiful one. As if nature was creating itself, forming mountains and sea, under the light of the newly formed moon. One more thing was created in this ceremony of chaos when the carbon atoms collided with each other in extreme conditions. As the pressure was about 50,000 times the pressure at the surface and the temperature exceeded 1600°C, the carbon atoms bonded with 4 others, and diamonds were formed. All of this, for a man (Charles Lewis Tiffany, 1812–1902) to put that diamond on a ring billions of years later and establish Tiffany & Co.—“the store of his dream.” He not only sold jewelry but gave the world something to dream about. He was selling a dream that would change the face of luxury and jewelry forever. This article is the breakdown of this very dream and the company s...