Maison 31 of 100 · Fine Jewelry
Graff
The reading
A diamond merchant who became a maison. Laurence Graff’s eye for exceptional stones is the product. London-based, globally worn, no pretence that the metalwork matters more than the rock. The anti-Alhambra: the stone is the story.
The house
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1960
- Atelier
- Fine Jewelry
- Ownership
- Independent
- Signature
- Twizzle / multi-carat stones
- Register note
- High-stone independent This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Its place in the register, counted
This is one of the nine maisons the register files to the United Kingdom — the same number it files to the United States, and the fourth-largest national group in it. Counted inside its own room it stands 6th of the fifteen houses this register files under Fine Jewelry. The register records its ownership as independent, one of the thirteen independent houses among the hundred — the others include Hermès, Burberry, The Row, Brunello Cucinelli, Mikimoto, and seven more. Against the whole register by founding year it comes 65th of a hundred.