Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany & Co. is a very famous U.S. jewelry and silverware company founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City in 1837 as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium." The store initially sold a wide variety of stationery items, and operated as Tiffany, Young and Ellis in lower Manhattan. The name was shortened to Tiffany & Co in 1853 when Charles Tiffany took control, and the firm's emphasis on jewelry was established. Tiffany & Co. has since opened stores in major cities all over the world.

Recently Tiffany & Co. has announced its second store opening in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at Pavilion Kuala Lumpur on September 2007, coinciding with the shopping mall opening. The store has 1,700 sq retail space and features the same decor elements of its New York flagship. As you can see, Tiffany & Co. only opens its retail shop at higher class shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. New stores in the states consist of one at Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut, and at the Providence Place mall, Providence RI, both recently open in November 2007. The company will relocate across Boston to Newbury Street and open up their New England flagship store, and their fifth United States headquarters.

In the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, the title of which is a reference to the shop, by journalist and writer Truman Capote, one of the protagonists, Holly Golightly, constantly refers to the jewellery shop as "the best place in the world, where nothing bad can take place." The iconic 1961 film of the same name was based on Capote's novella.

"Summer at Tiffany," a 2007 memoir by Marjorie Hart, details her experiences as one of the first two female floor employees at Tiffany during the summer of 1945. The book is full of Hart's brushes with celebrities of the era, and other late WWII events in New York City.