The Three Houses

Riferimento

• 13 rue de la Paix The Paris address that became synonymous with Cartier, the salon on one of the French capital's most celebrated luxury streets, where Louis Cartier developed the house's creative identity in the early twentieth century.
• 175 New Bond Street The Mayfair address that served as Cartier London's home for most of the twentieth century, the base from which Jacques Cartier and later Jean-Jacques Cartier ran the London branch.
• 4 New Burlington Street The Mayfair address where Cartier opened its first London branch in 1902, operating there for seven years before moving to 175 New Bond Street in 1909.
• 653 Fifth Avenue The New York address that has been Cartier's American home since 1917, acquired by Pierre Cartier in exchange for a double-strand natural pearl necklace in one of the most celebrated transactions in the firm's history.
• American Art Works The name of Cartier New York's in-house high jewellery workshop, established under Pierre Cartier and run from the upper floors of the firm's Fifth Avenue mansion until its dissolution in May 1941.
• Cartier Inc The formal legal name of the New York branch, the Incorporated designation that appears in American corporate filings and in records connected to the Fifth Avenue operation.
• Cartier London The London branch, run first by Jacques Cartier and later by Jean-Jacques Cartier, which developed a distinct creative identity through its specialist workshops and its royal and aristocratic clientele.
• Cartier Ltd The formal legal name of the London branch, the Limited company designation that appears on invoices, hallmarks, and records connected to the Cartier London operation.
• Cartier New York The American branch built by Pierre Cartier, established on Fifth Avenue through the famous pearl-for-mansion trade and developed to serve the industrialists, socialites, and collectors of the Gilded Age and beyond.
• Cartier Paris The original house, the Paris salon at 13 rue de la Paix from which the London and New York branches grew, and where the firm's most celebrated design innovations were developed.
• Cartier SA The formal legal name of the Paris branch, Société Anonyme (the standard French corporate form), as it appears in company documents, invoices, and records connected to the Paris house.
• Cartier's Atelier Network Cartier leveraged a network of independent workshops to produce the jewellery, clocks, and cases that carried its name, while also developing in-house manufacturing capacity in London, New York, and eventually Paris.
• English Art Works Ltd The London manufacturing and design workshop behind Cartier London's most distinctive pieces, at the heart of a branch that developed its own creative identity through the twentieth century.
• European Watch & Clock Co. (EWC) The New York company that imported, assembled, and retailed Cartier watches for the American market, and the layered signatures it left on American-market pieces.
• Henri Lavabre The Paris goldsmith who became perhaps Cartier's largest supplier, manufacturing all types of objects from tiaras to clocks at his rue Tiquetonne workshop.
• Henri Picq A Parisian goldsmith who supplied high jewellery pieces to Cartier Paris in the early twentieth century, including part of the 1906 Faberge-style egg now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Marel Works The second of Pierre Cartier's two New York workshops, opened in 1925 to handle Cartier New York's silverwork and goldwork. The name was a contraction of his daughter Marion and his wife Elma.
• Rubel Frères A Parisian goldsmith atelier that produced jewellery for Cartier and other major houses in the first half of the twentieth century.
• Strauss, Allard et Meyer The Paris workshop founded in 1909, known for lacquer, enamel, and chinoiserie vanity cases; it supplied Cartier New York from 1912 and registered its hallmark 'SAM' in 1919.
• Verger Frères The Paris goldsmith workshop founded in 1872 by Ferdinand Verger and later run by his sons, one of only two houses entrusted with the fabrication of Cartier Mystery Clocks.
• Vors & Pujol The in-house jewellery workshop that took over Cartier New York's high-jewellery production after American Art Works was dissolved in May 1941. Later incorporated as Albert J Pujol Inc under Henri Larrieu.
• Wright & Davies Ltd The Clerkenwell workshop that made watch cases and accessories for Cartier London, part of the network of specialist craftsmen behind the London branch's mid-twentieth century output.