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A La Vieille Russie is a New York City-based antique store specializing in European and American antique jewelry, Imperial Russian works of art, 18th-century European gold snuff boxes, and objets d’art. [1] Founded in Kiev in 1851, A La Vieille Russie later relocated to Paris around 1920 and to New York thereafter.
1876: Black, Starr & Frost built the first apartment building and jewelry salon on 28th Street and Fifth Avenue. 1911: Black, Starr & Frost made the key for the ceremonial opening of the New York Public Library. 1912: The C.T. Cook residence on Fifth Avenue and 48th Street was converted into the new home of Black, Starr & Frost. Not until the ...
Tiffany & Co. had been one of the earliest stores to move uptown to Fifth Avenue, which at the time was still primarily residential. [12] [86] In 1910, the New-York Tribune reported that the Altman and Tiffany buildings had prompted high demand "of high-class retail houses for locations on the avenue". [86]
Henri Bendel, Inc. (pronounced BEN-del), established in 1895, [3] was a women's department store based in New York City which in its later history sold women's handbags, jewelry, luxury fashion accessories, home fragrances, chocolate and gifts. [4] Its New York City store was located at 10 West 57th street.
Georg Jensen Inc. was a gift and department store known for Scandinavian imports located in midtown Manhattan at 667 Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street from 1935–1968. In 1935, it was founded and managed by Frederik Lunning (1881–1952), re-inventing his original New York store, Georg Jensen Handmade Silver, Inc., founded 1923, at 169 West 57th Street, across from Carnegie Hall. [1]
The Factory was located on the fifth floor at 231 East 47th Street, between Second Avenue and Third Avenue. The top duplex of the Dyckman's Jewelry Exchange at 73 West 47th Street was Russian emigrant artist Alexander Ney 's studio and home for four decades (1974–2015) following his immigration from the Soviet Union .
The corner of 5th Avenue and 48th Street in Manhattan, designated by the City of New York as "William Goldberg Way" Goldberg was born in Brooklyn, New York City. [1] He started cutting diamonds in 1948, but he found that his aptitude lay with buying and selling diamonds rather than cutting them. [1]
Harry Winston Jewelers, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan Winston was among the most noted jewelers in the world, well known to the general public. In the 1953 musical film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" includes the spoken interjection "Talk to me, Harry Winston, tell me all about it!"