The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire

Love this book a wonderful insight into a great and beautiful brand and the discovery of all the information is incredible

Great read! Highly recommend to anybody who is interested in the history of Cartier!

Core family story - goes through the up and downs of quite an unorganised industry.

An insightful and surprisingly readable book by an insider of the Cartier family. My wife loved it!

Great book

This is an incredible saga of the Cartier family - I couldn't get through it quick enough

I love the book, very interesting to read, especially for me as a jeweller and a brand owner. However, I noticed pages 65 to 96 were missing. I wonder whether it's just in my book or in every book.

So I purchased this book for my wife’s birthday. She loves the words, however all of the pages are now falling out of the paperback version. Not good!!

Very interesting story behind the Cartier empire.

I purchased this ebook and then forgot about it. I found it while sorting out my Kindle... and once I started reading it I could not put it down until the end. Written with love and awe by one person from the Cartier family that went through personal letters, archives, and interviews with descendants of people who worked at Cartier's, it's a family story, mostly of the three brothers, grandkids of the founder, and their lives and achievements during very significant times for the whole world. They surely were very creative and inspired and through this book it's even more understandable why Cartier means high jewelry. The photo insert with a selection of the more significant pieces adds an extra value! Highly recommendable!

Tout aussi passionnant en Français qu'en Anglais.

The history of the Cartier’s is filled with intrigue and tales of fabulous wealth, power and majesty, wrapped up in style and detailed craftsmanship. Combine all this with personal anecdotes and factual history and you get a well written story of great interest, a pleasure to read.

This book is really brilliant. It isn’t a picture book like a coffee-table book First of all, if you’re a reader, 600+ pages is not really a long book for what it covers; which is why it took 10 years to write. It’s filled with comprehensive, authenticated information from access that a writer/biographer wouldn’t normally have access It really is a story about the process to create a successful. Hard work and perseverance through bad times such as the first- and second-world war. Diplomatic relationships between owner and consumer. Creating a product that kept its relevancy over 150 years. I loved the inclusion of family thoughts as it gave the book personality. These relationships affect everything in any family business. I think the three brothers did an excellent job in identifying strengths (both staff and themselves), creating teams of experts. To see an earring design out of the curve of a vase or to see a color combination from a historic object without copying is astonishing. Buy this book not just for the allure of the beautiful objects, but because it covers a lot of business principles and clever deal-making which was the key behind their enduring legacy in history.