If you were so inclined, you could pick up a signed first edition of Truman Capote's novel Breakfast at Tiffany's for $5000 or less. But why not spring for the artfully rebound version for $1.5 million.
The new version sports more than 1,000 white diamonds that have been set into a custom fine binding of a first edition of Breakfast at Tiffany's signed by Truman Capote. The pricey volume has been produced to celebrate the centenary of the writer's birth.
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A crack squad of British craftspeople, in collaboration with US-based Dragon Rebound, have completed the book which features diamonds in a platinum setting. It is displayed on a cast glass plinth in an wooden birdcage, housed in a custom-made vintage case, and is accompanied by a portfolio of photomontages by David Attie. It is completely unique, never to be repeated, limited to a single copy, and currently valued at around $1.5m.
The signed, first-edition text has been bound by award-winning bookbinder Kate Holland. The novel is bound in full black goatskin with a design of a 1950s New York street map. The main streets are platinum set with more than 1,000 white diamonds – totaling nearly 30 carats – by London jewelers Bentley & Skinner.
The Manhattan cross streets are blind-tooled and the location of Tiffany's flagship store at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street is marked by a single 1ct sapphire. The doublures are black goatskin with images of Cat and a bird in flight hand-tooled in platinum and signed by the binder. The title is hand-tooled on the spine in platinum and the endpapers are photographic prints from David Attie's original series of photomontages.
The book is displayed in a birdcage, designed and made by master cabinetmaker Dom Parish of Wardour Workshops and inspired by the recurring motif of the vintage birdcage in the book. It sits on a cast glass plinth made by glassmaker Jade Pinnell. The entire piece is housed in a custom-made vintage trunk, based on a classic Louis Vuitton grey Trianon canvas wardrobe trunk.
The book includes a portfolio of the full set of photomontages by photographer David Attie, who was commissioned to illustrate Breakfast at Tiffany's by Harper's Bazaar. The full set of images have never been published in full in print until now.
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