JAYNE WRIGHTSMAN EPITOMISED the American dream. Born in Flint, Michigan, in 1919 and raised in Los Angeles, where she worked at a department store, she’d later marry the oil magnate Charles Wrightsman, establishing herself in New York society and becoming a patron of the arts and one of the 20th century’s most discerning jewellery collectors. Before her death in 2019, at age 99, she amassed countless treasures, including a 1984 Bulgari necklace made of gold, diamonds and emeralds. Inspired by Surrealism and the work of the Belgian painter René Magritte, the Italian house featured the piece in a campaign called Bulgari Dream, in which strands of tourmalines, citrines, amethysts and peridots, all framed by Bulgari’s logo, shone against a backdrop of blue skies and white clouds.
This past autumn, the…
