Cartier and America

The catalogue for the exhibition held at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco from November 2009 to April 2010. Martin Chapman, curator of European decorative arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, organised the show to explore Cartier's relationship with American clients, American society, and the development of the New York branch under Pierre Cartier.

The exhibition drew on pieces from the Cartier Collection alongside loans from American private collections and institutions, bringing together jewellery, watches, clocks, and decorative objects that traced the firm's engagement with the American market from the early twentieth century onwards. The Flamingo Brooch was among the pieces exhibited.

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The American branch of the Cartier story: Pierre Cartier's establishment of Cartier New York at 653 Fifth Avenue, the firm's American clientele (including Marjorie Merriweather Post and other prominent collectors), and the relationship between American taste and Cartier's design output. The catalogue places Cartier within the broader context of European luxury houses competing for the American market in the early and mid twentieth century.

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Published by Prestel in a well-distributed edition. Available secondhand; the Prestel imprint ensures wider circulation than many exhibition catalogues.

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Referenced in the exhibition history of the Flamingo Brooch and relevant to entries on Cartier New York, Pierre Cartier, and 653 Fifth Avenue.