Megacarats from a rich menu

Here is a maharani necklace, with carved emerald burst looks like flowers, a stunning headdress worn by the Monaco Princess Grace; Marlene Dietrich bold ruby and diamond bracelet, on the screen to see if they have not the time move "stage fright" to consider four - two pendant earrings, brooch and necklace set - this is Elizabeth Taylor.

Also interesting from a design point of view can be moved or deformed parts of the object - 95-carat yellow diamond briolette, a bird-shaped brooch from the beak hanging off, forming a pendant, gold, ruby ​​and diamond necklace can be compressed into a bracelet - pieces people who probably can afford to buy everything separately. Installation is not in chronological order, so that the audience must take history, they can find it, because in the Art Deco style bracelet is shown between the first example, or in the minaudière invention of the first (a petite case inspired by the ancient Florence Stewart's box of cigarettes into her habit of evening necessities). A small part of a happy so-called Bronx cocktail bracelet from the 1930s, the era of Prohibition libations in the form of charm.

Version of the show's history, World War II, just a brief interruption of luxury and privilege of being epic. Van Cleef & Arpels family moved to New York, picked up a lot of places where they live, and the merger, "the New World like the old world skills," continue to meet as Eva Peron, the Duchess of Windsor, the Shah of Iran elite international customers.