A bird wrapped in diamonds and crowned with a bright gold plume flutters sedately across a dreamy tableau of sakura cherry blossoms and urban skyscrapers. This is the scene that greets visitors at the opening of a new exhibition in Tokyo – a large-scale animation of ‘Bird on a Rock’, designed by Jean Schlumberger in 1965 and perhaps one of the most iconic birds in jewellery history. It’s the first of countless imagination-rich innovations that make up ‘Tiffany Wonder’, a sweeping – and sparkling – exhibition that journeys through the layered history of jewellery house Tiffany & Co, from its 1837 foundation in New York to its modern-day presence.
