The Creative Circle

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• Alexandre Genaille Parisian designer who worked for Cartier from 1906 to 1929, first in Paris and then for two decades at the New York branch under Pierre Cartier, leaving behind around 400 original drawings now held by the libraries of the City of Paris.
• Alfred Durante Designer who began at Cartier New York in the 1950s, apprenticing under French designers above the Fifth Avenue showroom, and rose to Vice President of Design and Production.
• André Denet André Denet (1913–2001) was the head of Cartier Paris's sales team in the post-war years, the salesman to Barbara Hutton, the Duchess of Windsor, and the King of Morocco.
• Charles Jacqueau The principal designer at Cartier Paris from 1911 to 1935, whose work across the Garland Style and Art Deco periods accounts for much of the firm's most celebrated output.
• Dennis Gardner Designer at Cartier London who worked on animal jewel designs in the mid-twentieth century, visiting the zoo regularly alongside Paris designer Pierre Lemarchand.
• Edmond Jaeger The Parisian watchmaker whose partnership with Louis Cartier supplied the ultra-thin movements for early twentieth-century Cartier watches, and whose name lives on in Jaeger-LeCoultre.
• Eric Denton Master watchmaker at Cartier London's 175 New Bond Street showroom, responsible for fitting movements into cases produced by the Wright & Davies workshop.
• Georges Rémy Senior designer at Cartier Paris from the 1930s to the 1960s, mentored by Jeanne Toussaint, known among collectors as the 'King of Rings' for the sculptural ring designs that defined the Paris workshop's mid-century output.
• Jack Hasey An American salesman at Cartier Paris in the late 1930s who became the first American to join General de Gaulle's Free French Forces, after being introduced to the General by Cartier London's director, Bellenger.
• Jacques-David LeCoultre The head of the LeCoultre manufacture who deepened the supply partnership with Cartier in the early twentieth century and concluded the 1937 merger that created Jaeger-LeCoultre.
• Jeanne Toussaint Director of Fine Jewellery at Cartier Paris from 1933, who commissioned the work of the firm's designers across the 1940s and 50s, the period of the great animal jewels.
• Jules Glaenzer Vice President and head salesman at Cartier New York in the early twentieth century, a major figure in New York social life whose network helped establish Cartier's presence among American clients.
• Louis Devaux Manager of Cartier Paris during the Second World War, who oversaw the branch through the German occupation of Paris between 1940 and 1944 following the death of Louis Cartier in 1942.
• Lucien Lachassagne French Cartier Paris designer of the wartime and post-war years, working alongside Georges Rémy and Pierre Lemarchand in the firm's Rue de la Paix design studio. Best known for the oriental-style remodelling of Barbara Hutton's Romanov emeralds.
• Maurice Couët The master clockmaker who created the mystery clocks and other extraordinary timepieces for Cartier from the early twentieth century.
• Paul Muffat Paul Muffat was a Cartier salesman for five decades, from 1903 to his 1953 retirement. He took the 1925 meeting with the Maharaja of Patiala that led to the Patiala Necklace commission, and trained his successor André Denet.
• Pierre Lemarchand Designer at Cartier Paris from the 1930s to the 1950s whose work spans two extremes: the panther jewels that defined the house's mid-century animal aesthetic and the bird brooches of the wartime occupation.
• Rupert Emmerson Head designer at Cartier London under Jean-Jacques Cartier in the 1960s and 1970s, responsible for the Cartier Crash and the Cartier Pebble.