Blue Book 2025 features aquatic-inspired works of art.
Humans have had a fascination with the ocean for as long as they’ve existed. The vast waters with their curious creatures inspire fear in some and awe in others. It’s the latter emotion that served to inform Jean Schlumberger’s long career as jewelry for Tiffany & Co. and continues to resonate in the brand’s collections. Blue Book 2025 is no different. Titled Sea of Wonder and designed by Nathalie Verdeille, the pieces take familiar flora and fauna, transforming them into bejeweled works of art that go from literal to abstract. Consisting of a color palette that’s meant to mimic the iridescent shimmer of underwater light as well as the bioluminescence seen in the dwellers of the deep, you’ll find six distinct chapters that draw from the archives yet feel distinctly modern.
Ocean Flora, like its name implies, highlights the plants that one would find underwater with pieces that are designed to evoke an underwater garden. The highlight in this segment would be a necklace that includes Zambian emeralds that appear to float atop diamonds. For Seahorse, Verdeille drew from Schlumberger’s 1968 brooches, albeit reimagined for 2025. You’ll find fluted moonstones as well as zircons and sapphires to create vibrant renditions of the delicate creature. And speaking of majestic creatures, Sea Turtle, takes the sacred animal and imagines it as meticulously engraved sparkling diamond and gold pieces. One standout is a pendant with a hidden mechanism that transforms it into a brooch — a nod to the turtle’s journey from land to sea.
For the fourth chapter, Starfish, you’ll find the multi-limbed animal rendered in Mozambique rubies and diamonds. Urchin, the penultimate series, uses paillonné enameling which is a technique Schlumberger revitalized. The results are delicate, thorny pieces with an iridescent accent. And finally, Waves completes the collection. Like its name implies, it celebrates the dramatic movement of the ocean with one necklace being the stunning showpiece. Consisting of over 17 carats of diamonds accented by blue cuprian elbaite tourmalines, it draws influence from the same motion seen in Schlumberger’s Leaves necklace.
“Each piece in our latest Blue Book collection, Sea of Wonder, captivates and invites us to lose ourselves in the rich storytelling as we embark on a journey through uncharted realms of the deep sea,” says Verdeille via press release. “While each creation weaves a story of the ocean and its wonders, these extraordinary pieces also tell a broader narrative of the House’s love of pushing boundaries, our relentless pursuit of that which has never been done before, and the spirit of extraordinary savoir faire that has defined [the brand] since 1837.”
To celebrate the release of their Blue Book 2025, the brand hosted a black-tie gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday evening. It’s a fitting location as the museum had just acquired Garden Landscape, a three-part stained glass designed by Agnes F. Northrop for Louis Comfort Tiffany. With the likes of Anya Taylor Joy, Greta Lee, Mikey Madison, among others all clad in Tiffany & Co. designs, consider the red carpet a taste of what next week’s Met Gala will have to offer. See images from the night below.
From left: Anya Taylor Joy, Greta Lee, Mikey Madison, Ai Tominaga, Taylor Russell, Alicia Keys, Gabrielle Union, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Quinta Brunson, and Adriana Lima.
