A diamond-covered version of Truman Capote’s seminal novel “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is on sale for $1.5 million to mark the centenary of the creator’s start.
The one-of-a-kind quantity, on show on the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, is signed by the creator and embellished with virtually 30 carats of diamonds and a sapphire.
“The streets of London are paved with gold… the streets in New York are paved with platinum and diamonds,” stated British artist Kate Holland who’s behind the particular version of the 1958 novella.
Three years within the making, British jewelers Bentley and Skinner collaborated with U.S. luxurious bookseller, Lux Mentis, and the work is on show till Sunday on the e-book truthful within the coronary heart of Manhattan.
The alignment of the greater than 1,000 diamonds takes the type of the define of Manhattan’s distinctive grid system.
The sapphire is positioned on the nook of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, location of the legendary flagship of jeweler Tiffany, which reopened in April 2023 underneath the possession of French world luxurious large LVMH.
Tiffany, a beacon of New York luxurious since 1940, was immortalized by the movie tailored from the e-book of the identical identify directed by Blake Edwards and starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.
The romantic comedy with a psychological edge, and the darker e-book concerning the character’s childhood traumas, inform the story of Holly Golightly, a whimsical younger socialite who lives off her charms in New York and goals of marrying a billionaire to bathe her with jewels.
Holland described the novel as a “love story to New York”, a worldwide hub for the humanities, luxurious and finance.
And whereas the artist admits the $1.5 million price ticket “sits uncomfortably” — she believes the e-book could be displayed relatively than sit “in a box on a shelf.”
The work and lifetime of Capote, as well-known for his controversies as for his writing, have since his loss of life in Los Angeles a month earlier than his sixtieth birthday, been tailored for the display.
Most lately his exploits have been dramatized in Gus Van Sant’s “Feud: The Betrayals of Truman Capote” starring Tom Hollander, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane and Demi Moore.
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