In 1985, the famed Swiss watchmaker Gérald Genta—whose work Christie’s New York once called the “Fabergé of watches”—collaborated with Cartier to produce Pasha de Cartier, a wristwatch for the French ...
A square within a circle: a geometric metaphor that, for centuries, has alluded to nonconformity and something that doesn’t (and will never, according to ancient mathematicians) fit. The idiom of “a ...