How do you reinterpret an icon?

It’s a question Nathalie Verdeille pondered when she looked to create a new chapter for Jean Schlumberger’s famous Bird on a Rock jewelry motif.

“For the first time in our history, we’ve reimagined the iconic Bird on a Rock — originally a high jewelry piece — into an extraordinary fine jewelry collection,” says Verdeille, the chief artistic officer of Tiffany & Co. “This presented an opportunity to explore its essence in two distinct ways: one grounded in naturalism and the other, abstraction.”

Schlumberger, an influential artist whose work runs throughout the DNA of the luxury jewelry brand’s designs, first introduced the quirky cockatoo creation in 1965. He was said to have been inspired by a yellow bird of the same kind that he’d encountered during

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