The Sky’s The Limit: Inside Tiffany’s New ‘Bird On A Rock’ Collection, A Tribute To Bunny Mellon And Jean Schlumberger’s Enduring Bond

At Oak Spring, a Virginia estate nestled between hedgerows and horizon, history doesn’t just sit still, it blossoms. Here, among espaliered apple trees and greenhouse finials, the American style icon Rachel Lambert ‘Bunny’ Mellon cultivated a life rooted in nature, elegance, and enduring friendships. One of the most significant of those was her creative kinship with Jean Schlumberger, the visionary jewellery designer for Tiffany & Co. whose fantastical creations shaped 20th-century jewellery design and continue to do so today.

This September, Tiffany & Co. reintroduces  Bird on a Rock  to the world, not as a single brooch, but as a soaring new high and fine jewellery collection. Originally designed by Schlumberger in 1965, the whimsical idea of a bird perched upon a bold gemstone has