Tatiana Fabergé (7 March 1930 – 13 February 2020) was a Swiss secretary,
Fabergé scholar
and jeweller from
Switzerland
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.
Biography
Tatiana Fabergé was born in 1930 in
Versoix
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Geography
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,
Geneva, Switzerland
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. Her parents were
Fedor Fabergé (a son of
Agathon Carl Theodor Fabergé
Agathon Karlovich Fabergé (; ; – 20 October 1951) was a Russian goldsmith and philatelist. He was the second son of Peter Carl Fabergé.
Early life
Agathon Karlovich was born in 1876; he was educated at the Petrischule in St. Petersburg an ...
) and
Tatiana Borisovna Sheremeteva-Fabergé (the daughter of
Boris Sergeevich Sheremetev and
Princess Elisabed Aleksandres Asuli Bagration of Mukhrani). During the 1950s she studied jewellery design in Paris, where she was in contact with her uncles Eugene Fabergé and Alexander Fabergé. The Fabergé brothers had a store in Paris called
Fabergé & Cie
Fabergé & Cie was a jewelry firm founded in 1924 in Paris by two of the sons of Peter Carl Fabergé, Alexander Fabergé (1877–1952) and Eugène Fabergé (1874–1960), together with Peter Carl Fabergé's business partner and jewellery designer ...
.
Tatiana Fabergé joined
CERN
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—the European Organization for Particle Physics Research—as a secretary when the CERN Theory Group was moved from
Copenhagen
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to Geneva. She retired from CERN in 1995.
Fabergé was always interested in the
House of Fabergé
The House of Fabergé (; ) was a jewellery firm founded in 1842 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Gustav Fabergé, using the accented name ''Fabergé''. Gustav's sons Peter Carl and Agathonand grandsons followed him in running the business until ...
. After retirement she worked researching the family history and promoting its heritage.
In 1974 she launched her own jewelry and product line Tatiana Fabergé which was marketed through her own web site. During her career she created several products under different trademarks, in 2005 Fabergé Ltd purchased from the Tatiana Fabergé SA one of the trademarks, Tatiana Fabergé SA then continued developing products under the Tsars Collection trademark.
From 2007, she was actively involved in giving advice and guidance via the Fabergé Heritage Council, a division of
Fabergé Limited, regarding the relaunch of the brand. She worked closely with the creative team and advised on heritage matters.
At her death in February 2020, she bequeathed the Fabergé family archive to the
Moscow Kremlin Museums
Moscow Kremlin Museums (, ) is a major state-run museum in Moscow Kremlin. Its roots lie in the Kremlin Armoury museum founded in 1806, the current form of the museum started in 1991. The Head of the museum (since 2001) is Yelena Gagarina, d ...
.
Fauxbergé
According to an article published in 2020 by an art dealer specialising in Russian art and Fabergé, she was involved in authenticating several
Fauxbergé
Fauxbergé () is a term coined to generally describe items that are faking a higher quality or status and in specific terms relates to the House of Fabergé (Russian: Дом Фаберже), which was a Russian jewellery firm founded in 1842 in Sa ...
eggs as genuine Fabergé items in order them to be sold:
Likewise, the book co-authored by her and Valentin Skurlov, "Fabergé: A Comprehensive Reference Book" (2012), contains a two-page spread extolling the so-called doctor Metzger egg clock as "a genuine artefact labelled a fake", despite the fact it had been considered not a genuine Fabergé item during a trial in London in July 2008. In that trial, two Fabergé experts declared that Skurlov earned money by producing certificates authenticating forgeries.
Andre Ruzhnikov (2020), A Fabergé Farrago of Fakes and Impostors
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Publications
Her publications on Carl Fabergé include:
* ''The History of the House of Fabergé'' (1992).
See also
* Fauxbergé
Fauxbergé () is a term coined to generally describe items that are faking a higher quality or status and in specific terms relates to the House of Fabergé (Russian: Дом Фаберже), which was a Russian jewellery firm founded in 1842 in Sa ...
References
External links
*Tatiana Fabergé S
website
*Fabergé Lt
website
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1930 births
People associated with CERN
Tatiana Faberge
2020 deaths
Women jewellers
Swiss jewelry designers