When you run a classy joint, like Tiffany & Co, you can’t just board up your windows and start renovating. No, you board up your windows and hire an illustrator to draw a mural on it. Tiffany & Co execs seem to have a pretty good sense of humor though. The mural looks like an illustration from Cosmo or some other chick young woman oriented rag publication. On the side a legend says: “Welcome to Tiffany. Please use our 57th Street entrance while our crown jewel gets a polish.”
Here’s a detail from the front: bow tie boldie has this annoying expression on his face: “he heh, I am surely getting my crown jewels polished tonight.”
This, by the way would have been an interesting photography project – camping out with a long lens across from Tiffany’s and discretely (otherwise Trump and Tiffany security personnel will probably drag you away for this) taking pictures of men walking out with those robin’s egg blue shopping bags. I would not want to do something like that though, as on occasion I walked out of that store carrying the shopping bag and the expression. I am a fan of the 1837TM line.
Lunch At Tiffany’s
“TIFFANY BLUE BOX and the color TIFFANY BLUE are trademarks of Tiffany (NJ) Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used under license.”
Well, of course if you walk one more block and go to the store, they have the real Robin’s Egg Blue boxes. But do they have these low, low prices and the classy matching van? Street shopping in Manhattan is amazing.
Live at the Palladium
Hmm, this is interesting. Turns out that during WWII a lot of jewelry was made from palladium because platinum was unavailable. Check out a picture of Tiffany and Co ring in that article. Much better than most of the crap they are making now.
Some pretty palladium jewelry can be found on eBay too.