Talk:Tiffany & Co.

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Contents 1 Clean Up 2 POV 3 Lamps 4 ie formatting 5 blue boxes

[edit] Clean Up

I've attempted to clean this up a little bit, especially adding the Trivia section. If anyone can do anything more (or better) please do so. I really don't like the way the quality section reads right now, but I don't have any time to research this or change it at the moment. It seems more opinion or a sales pitch right now and I think it should be more focused on why the Tiffany's brand is associated with quality or what makes it quality.

I've also eliminated the concern about the lack of quality. Whoever put that there, you can add it back when you have some references. --Tenric 15:53, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV

Does anyone think this should be changed? "A smart form of marketing that differentiates it from other large jewelers, whose entry-level prices are somewhat higher." It doesn't seem to me like something you'd read in an encylopedia.

I can see why this sort of thing: "As a result it is generally perceived that the company has been resting on its laurels" makes this an article that needs clean up. --Tenric 18:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Tenric, I agree completely: not only is "A smart form of marketing..." POV, it's not even a complete sentence, since it's lacking a proper subject. In addition, "There has been fear over the last few years that the brand itself has been damaged by a lack of new and original designs." also smacks of opinion (or perhaps sour grapes?) --Mommiepretty 22:07, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Did someone put that junk back, because I thought I took it out? If I have time I'm going to try to fix this up a little. --Tenric 00:16, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lamps

Hmm, interesting that the article makes no mention of Tiffany's famous leaded-glass lamps. It wasn't until just recently that I even knew Tiffany's was a jewelry store, rather than a lamp manufacturer. Call me dim. :) --Birdhombre 02:02, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I know this comment is really old, but for anyone who might happen upon this page and think that the two "Tiffany"s are the same: this is for you. Tiffany lamps are the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany, the younger son of Tiffany & Co.'s founder Charles Lewis Tiffany. Since this article has to do with the publically traded company and not the Tiffany family or its other businesses, please do not put information regarding Tiffany lamps into this article. Instead place all information regarding Louis Comfort Tiffany's lamps into his own article. =) — Indi ^{[ talk ]} 18:19, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

or the great Tiffamy ceilings, like at the State Street Marshall Field's in Chicago. 00:55, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ie formatting

This page is displaying incorrectly in IE 6 and IE 7. Might be nice to fixy. 69.143.133.51 04:04, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] blue boxes

no mention of the signature tiffany's boxes, or even the "tiffany blue" (the color of said boxes) ?