In the summer of 1968, Tiffany’s young, talented designer Donald Claflin created a special collection to showcase the glories of tanzanite, a collection that generated massive attention, both among jewelry lovers and the media. Tanzanite was hailed by Tiffany as the most beautiful blue stone to be discovered in two thousand years. Its velvet royal blue depths, illuminated by flashes of red or green, could stray into a deep, rich purple, yet always with a youthful exuberance and a fresh vibrant newness that so perfectly suited the youth-fueled zeitgeist of the late 1960s, offering a young, more casual, modern alternative to the formality of a traditional blue sapphire. -Vivienne Becker, Vision & Virtuosity catalog, published by Assouline, 2022. #visionandvirtuosity