'Breakfast at Tiffany's' copy on sale in New York for US$1.5m

NEW YORK, April 9 ― A diamond-covered edition of Truman Capote 's seminal novelis on sale for US$1.5 million to mark the centenary of the author's birth.

“The streets of London are paved with gold... the streets in New York are paved with platinum and diamonds,” said British artist Kate Holland who is behind the special edition of the 1958 novella.Three years in the making, British jewellers Bentley and Skinner collaborated with US luxury bookseller, Lux Mentis, and the work is on display until Sunday at the book fair in the heart of Manhattan.

The sapphire is positioned at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, location of the legendary flagship of jeweller Tiffany, which reopened in April 2023 under the ownership of French global luxury giant LVMH.Tiffany, a beacon of New York luxury since 1940, was immortalized by the film adapted from the book of the same name directed by Blake Edwards and starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.

Holland described the novel as a “love story to New York”, a global hub for the arts, luxury and finance.

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