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The Natural World Inspires Tiffany & Co. Blue Book: Hidden Garden

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The new edition of Tiffany & Co.’s legendary Blue Book offers a high jewelry collection that elevates classic themes of flora and fauna, showing a garden’s hardest workers—bees, birds, and butterflies—in extravagant gemstone form.

Tiffany will release this year’s Blue Book in three phases: spring, summer, and fall. The spring Blue Book, titled “Hidden Garden,” comes out this week and will be feted at a private gala on April 16.

Hidden Garden is Tiffany’s fourth Blue Book collection under chief artistic officer Nathalie Verdeille. The jewels’ vibrant hues of pink, orange, and denim blue come from such stones as salmon padparadscha and sapphires from Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and Montana.

The Hidden Garden collection also features fancy vivid yellow diamonds, as well as D-color, internally flawless, Type IIa emerald-cut diamonds—with over 10 cts. of the latter in one pair of earrings. Platinum and 18k gold are the collection’s primary metals.

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Tiffany & Co. Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden two unenhanced pink sapphire and diamond rings

In Hidden Garden, themes of transformation and renewal are symbolized not only by a butterfly motif but also by the way select pendants can become brooches.

“Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden reflects our continued commitment to creativity, craft, and the highest standards of gemology,” Anthony Ledru, chief executive officer of Tiffany & Co., said in a statement.

“This collection—one of Tiffany & Co.’s most important traditions for over a century—honors the legacy of Jean Schlumberger while demonstrating how we continue to evolve it for today’s high jewelry client,” Ledru said. “Under Nathalie Verdeille’s creative leadership, and in close collaboration with our gemologists and artisans, we are pushing the boundaries of design and technical excellence.”

Schlumberger’s Bird on the Rock legacy continues with three additions that are likely to end up on the lapels of the Hollywood elite during awards season. One is a chrysoprase bead necklace holding a 22+ ct. aquamarine flanked by a pair of lively birds—a piece that can be detached and worn as a brooch.

BlueBook Tiffany brooch necklace
Tiffany’s 2026 Blue Book, Hidden Garden, features this chrysoprase necklace with a Bird on a Rock aquamarine pendant that can be removed and worn as a brooch.

Paradise Bird, a personality-filled feathered friend, comes perched on an extraordinary gemstone—Mexican fire opal, Brazilian rubellite, Ethiopian blue chalcedony, or Madagascan spessartite. The combination of gemstones on the bird’s body—emeralds with turquoise or tsavorite, for example—are very special too.

Then there is the whimsical parrot, another of Schlumberger’s celebrated designs from the 1960s. In this iteration, Verdeille created feathers out of unenhanced blue and purple sapphires. To make the jewels stand out even more, she used hand-applied paillonné enamel in a stunning palette of dark blue, duck green, and Tiffany Blue.

The bee also gets extraordinary treatment in Hidden Garden. Inspired by Schlumberger’s Two Bees design, a ring in the new collection holds an internally flawless oval diamond (D color, Type IIa) of more than 10 cts., with diamond bees seemingly guarding it from both sides.

One final piece to highlight already has made a red-carpet appearance: the fancy vivid yellow diamond necklace—which seems to represent abstract bees in flight—that Gwyneth Paltrow wore to the Oscars on March 15.

Here are some pieces from the spring Tiffany Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden.

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Paradise Bird brooch with unenhanced rubellite
Bluebook Tiffany bird
Paradise Bird brooch with unenhanced fire opal
Bluebook 2026 bird 3
Paradise Bird brooch with spessartite
Bluebook Tiffany butterfly
Butterfly transformable pendant with fancy vivid yellow diamond
Bluebook Tiffany redcarpet necklace
Fancy vivid yellow diamond necklace

Top: Bee ring with 10.17 ct. oval diamond, from Tiffany & Co. Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden (photos courtesy of Tiffany & Co.) 

Karen Dybis

By: Karen Dybis

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