In 1917, Pierre Cartier walked into a New York mansion and traded a double strand of natural pearls for the six-story building on Fifth Avenue. The ow…
In 1917, Pierre Cartier slid a double strand of natural pearls across a table to the wife of a railroad tycoon. In return, he walked away with a six-story mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York. That building still stands as Cartier’s American flagship, a monument to a moment when a family’s taste was worth … Read more