The first new Faberge egg since 1917

[DocHolliday]

Supposedly Faberge is going upscale again:

http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews...acescan05.html

 

[SoCal2NYC]

I bought my friend Faberge shot glasses for Christmas 2 years ago.

 

[LabelKing]

I remember Faberge sold those little egg charms.

 

[redcaimen]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I remember Faberge sold those little egg charms.

This isnt another one of your pre-zygotic memories is it? You ought to have that checked out, or at least demand a small ongoing part on that tv series Heroes.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by redcaimen

This isnt another one of your pre-zygotic memories is it? You ought to have that checked out, or at least demand a small ongoing part on that tv series Heroes.
Perhaps in a past life LK was the Duchess Anastasia?

 

[mink31]

Too bad the article didn't get the right Faberge as the original 'jeweler to the Tsars'--i.e. Peter Carl Faberge, not Gustav (his father, though also a jeweler).

Regardless, I think they'll be catering to a very niche market by playing it safe and producing some of the Faberge staples. Is anyone really in the market for snuffboxes nowdays? They were certainly objets d'art back then, but they were also functional to some extent.

However, you never how rich Russians will respond to this. If they make the pieces in Moscow/St. Petersburg workshops, that could be a major selling point--provided, of course, that they somehow manage to duplicate the fantastic craftsmanship and tasteful extravagance that were Faberge hallmarks.

 

[robin]

Originally Posted by mink31

Is anyone really in the market for snuffboxes nowdays?
*ahem* http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=47471

 

[binge]

Speaking of Faberge eggs, if anyone is in the Washington D.C. area, be sure to visit the Hillwood Museum. The former home of Marjorie Merriweather-Post, it has an amazing collection of late Tsarist art, sold by the post-revolutionary Russian government to her and her husband, the U.S. Ambassador at the time. When I visited some 10 years ago, they claimed to have nearly as large a collection of Faberge eggs as was retained in the Hermitage.

 

[LabelKing]

Snuff it out.

 

[Lucky Strike]

This will never be anything but a meaningless name. These great-nieces, or whatever they are, of Karl FabergÃ

have nothing to do with the original firm, save a coincidental family name. I mean, Unilever owned the name for decades. If the goldsmiths making this egg are on the level of the original FabergÃ

's people, they should start their own firm. They're standing on the shoulders of a giant, only a buried one...I hate brand-play like this. Blah.

 

[Lucky Strike]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I remember Faberge sold those little egg charms.
There was a Swiss(?) firm who made over-priced little egg-shaped pendants and charms. I think this was in the eighties or early nineties. Not badly made, I have to admit.

 

[Lucky Strike]

Originally Posted by mink31

Too bad the article didn't get the right Faberge as the original 'jeweler to the Tsars'--i.e. Peter Carl Faberge, not Gustav (his father, though also a jeweler). Regardless, I think they'll be catering to a very niche market by playing it safe and producing some of the Faberge staples. Is anyone really in the market for snuffboxes nowdays? They were certainly objets d'art back then, but they were also functional to some extent.
They made all sorts of objects - cigarette cases were also staples, and would face almost the same difficulties as snuff-boxes. (Kate Moss kept her coke in an original Faberge box, btw. Just a tip, just a tip...) The cufflinks are amazing, too. I suspect that the new firm will make a lot of ladies' jewellery.

 

[LabelKing]

They also made walking-stick handles, another largely defunct category.

Faberge also made some beautiful hardstone figurines, which I suppose might be a viable luxury niche gift-market though I doubt that there are many craftsman today who can replicate that kind of work.