Source: AFP
A diamond-encrusted edition of Truman Capote’s seminal novel “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is selling for $1.5 million to mark the centennial of the author’s birth.
The unique volume, on display at the New York International Antiquities Book Fair, is signed by the author and set with nearly 30 carats of diamonds and a sapphire.
“The streets of London are paved with gold… the streets of New York are paved with platinum and diamonds,” said British artist Kate Holland, who is behind the special edition of the 1958 novel.
Three years in the making, British jewelers Bentley and Skinner have teamed up with American luxury bookseller Lux Mentis, and the project is on display until Sunday at the book fair in the heart of Manhattan.
The alignment of more than 1,000 diamonds takes the form of the outline of Manhattan’s signature grid system.
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Sapphire is located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, home to the legendary flagship jeweler Tiffany, which reopened in April 2023 under the ownership of French global luxury giant LVMH.
Tiffany, a beacon of New York luxury since 1940, was immortalized in the film adaptation of the book of the same name directed by Blake Edwards and starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.
The romantic comedy with a psychological edge and the darkest book about the character’s childhood trauma, tells the story of Holly Golightly, a whimsical young friend who lives off her glamor in New York and dreams of marrying a billionaire to shower her with jewels .
Holland described the novel as a “love story for New York”, a global hub for the arts, luxury and finance.
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And while the artist admits the $1.5 million price tag “sits uncomfortably” — she believes the book can be exhibited instead of sitting “in a box on a shelf.”
Capote’s work and life, as famous for his controversy as his writing, have been adapted for the screen since his death in Los Angeles a month before his 60th birthday.
More recently his exploits were dramatized in Gus Van Sant’s “Feud: The Betrayals of Truman Capote” starring Tom Hollander, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane and Demi Moore.
Source: AFP