Cartier, the legend

Cartier is the name of the greatest jewellers ever known, a name synonymous with splendour, luxury and fine artistry. Cartier - The Legend is the unique record of the family whose creations have, for more than a century, bejewelled most of the crowned heads, beauties and celebrities of the world.
The scope of the book is gigantic: it encompasses the period 1808-1875 and the early development of Cartier from skilled armourer to exquisite jeweller; it goes on to evoke the post- First World War period and the dazzling mad twenties, a time of frolics and mad frivolity, to be so devastatingly extinguished by the Wall Street Crash; finally, it looks at the years covering the Second World War to the death of Pierre Cartier.
The first Pierre Cartier and his two brothers, Louis-Joseph and Jacques, ruled over a vast artistic, financial and social empire emanating from the three great centres of the Western world: Paris, London and New York. From these fascinatingly distinct establishments emerge the personal, sometimes political, often romantic and inevitably extravagant stories with which this book is so profusely and accurately documented.
Describing the history, the glamour, the magic and the mystery, Cartier - The Legend evokes the style and excitement with which the name of Cartier has always been associated.