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The Cartier Family

Louis, Pierre and Jacques Cartier and the generations before and after. The family history behind one of the world's great jewellery houses.

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  • Alfred Cartier Son of the founder Louis-François, Alfred ran the firm through its transition from a small Parisian workshop to an international house, and was the father of the three brothers who made Cartier a global name.
  • Alice Griffeuille The heiress whose marriage to Alfred Cartier in 1874 provided the capital that allowed the firm to expand beyond a single Parisian workshop.
  • Jacques Cartier The youngest of the three Cartier brothers, who ran Cartier London and whose twenty-eight years of travel to India shaped the firm's most distinctive jewellery.
  • Jean-Jacques Cartier The last family member to lead Cartier London, and the creative force behind the Crash and Pebble watches that defined the branch's most adventurous period.
  • Louis Cartier The eldest of the three Cartier brothers, who ran the Paris house, pioneered platinum in jewellery, and shaped the firm's creative direction from the Belle Époque through the Art Deco era.
  • Louis-François Cartier The founder of what became Cartier, a Parisian craftsman who took over a small workshop in 1847 and built it into the foundation on which his son Alfred and three grandsons would construct an international house.
  • Pierre Cartier The middle of the three Cartier brothers, who built the New York branch and traded a natural pearl necklace for what became Cartier's Fifth Avenue flagship.
  • The Cartier Family Four generations of a Parisian jewellery dynasty: from a working-class craftsman who took over a small workshop in 1847 to the three brothers who made the Cartier name known across Paris, London and New York.

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Broszka Zwycięstwa Cartier autorstwa Pierre'a Lemarchanda

VE Day, 75 lat temu dzisiaj, oznaczył koniec II wojny światowej w Europie. Ale dla wielu początek końca rozpoczął się kilka miesięcy wcześniej: "18 sierpnia firma Cartier zamknęła się do odwołania" – napisał szef sprzedawcy Cartier Paris w 1944 roku. "Niemcy zajęli Place de la Concorde i Tuileries i strzelali do wszystkich przechodniów, którzy chcieli się przedostać."

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