TIME IS NOW....WISHING YOU PEACE AND JOY

from Elsa

to all the web friends

best wishes

of joy, peace and happiness

☆

AT TIFFANY NEW STORE IN BARCELONA

Tiffany new store opening in Barcelona 

at Mandarin Oriental Hotel

Paseo de Gracia, 38-40 

a huge Tiffany blue box welcome the guests

Elsa Peretti

with Michael J. Kowalski (right) President Tiffany&Co.

with Melvyn Kirtley, President Tiffany&Co Europe
and Raffaella Banchero, Vice President Tiffany&Co Europe

Posters displaying Elsa jewels and memorabilia

Elsa jewels display

Elsa objects window

Elsa jewels display

Elsa jewels window

inside the new store

(courtesy ElObservadorSolitario)

PREMIO "CREDERE NELLA RICERCA" 2010

Pochi giorni fa si è tenuta, nelle Sale del Quirinale, la manifestazione per l'assegnazione del premio "Credere nella Ricerca" 2010. 

Elsa Peretti, Presidente della "Fondazione Nando Peretti" intitolata al padre, ha avuto l'onore di essere personalmente ricevuta dal Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano, che le ha consegnato il prestigioso riconoscimento per l'impegno profuso in importanti iniziative di solidarietà.



"Credere nella Ricerca" Prize 2010
Elsa Peretti, President of "Nando Peretti Foundation" named after her father, had the honor to meet Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, who gave her the prestigious prize in relation to activity in important solidarity initiatives  supported by the Foundation.

Elsa Peretti incontra il Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano
al Quirinale in occasione dell'assegnazione dell'importante riconoscimento per il 2010.
Mrs Elsa Peretti and Mr. Giorgio Napolitano Italian President 
at the Quirinale in Rome 

Stefano Palumbo
direttore "Fondazione Nando Peretti"
Mr. Stefano Palumbo
"Nando Peretti Foundation" Director

 per conoscere meglio l'operato della "Fondazione Nando Peretti"

visitate il sito qui

visit "Nando Peretti Foundation" site here

(courtesy ElObservadorSolitario)

CARVED ICE

s o     p u r e

from top

wave crystal box

round pendant

teardrop pendant

starfish pendant

openheart pendant

star pendant

all in hand carved rock crystal on sterling silver chains

cabochon ring  with hand carved rock crystal

 on 18k yellow gold

©Elsa Peretti Tiffany&Co.

ROUND 'N ROUND ALL AROUND

Sculpted to a sensual perfection
the magic form retains its mysterious allure
for all time.

The Round Pendant

from left:

Black jade on 18k gold mesh chain

Sterling silver on silk cord

Lapislazuli on 18k gold mesh chain

18k gold on silk cord

©Elsa Peretti Tiffany&Co.

PRESS EYES - "HARPER'S BAZAAR SPAIN"

click on the page to read it

Elsa Peretti. A living legend.

Harper's Bazaar Spain

December 2010 issue

the scent bottle

Elsa Peretti Parfume

Rock Crystal scent-bottle, the body carved out of a single piece of stone, 

curved in shape to echo a bean, with separate stopper.

This bottle was designed and made in 1981 to hold an eighth of an ounce of Elsa Peretti's perfume, 

which she had worked on for four years. 

One thousand examples were carved and numbered 

in conjunction with the launch of the perfume.

Peretti's hardstone carving is all done by Chinese carvers in Hong Kong. 

The Chinese have long excelled in the carving of hardstones. 

Peretti's scent-bottle echoes the Chinese hardstone snuff-bottle, made to be held in the hand, 

exquisitely decorated and highly prized in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Rock crystal showing the stages in carving a scent-bottle: 

lump of rough unhewn crystal.  

outline shape with beginning of hollow for perfume.  

shape with slight curve.  

neck cut down from upper edge.  

stopper in rough shape.  

stopper with outline in progress.  

completed scent-bottle.

©Elsa Peretti Tiffany&Co.

(courtesy The British Museum)