High Jewelry by Cartier: Contemporary Creations
Cartier is one of the world’s preeminent jewelers, founded in 1847. The firm has been an official purveyor to rulers around the globe, from England to Egypt, Russia to Siam, Portugal to Serbia, and Spain to Albania. The company’s extensive archive, The Cartier Collection, includes more than 1,300 pieces illustrating the changes in design styles and techniques in Cartier’s creations. In recent years, works by Cartier—watches, jewelry, and other accessories—have been featured in major retrospectives at internationally renowned museums from Moscow to Tokyo and Mexico to Milan, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.