WHEN HOLLY Golightly got a case of the Mean Reds, where else would she go to lift her spirits but to Tiffany's? Now when you're stricken with the same, forget about Manhattan. You need go no further than the Vancouver Hoit Renfrew’s newly expanded Tiffany & .. Co, boutique. By Layne Christensen Fashion Reporter Located on the second floor, adjacent to the accessories depart- ment, the in-store shop sets itself apart from its high-fashion sur- roundings through its rich mahogany cabinetry and gleaming display cases of silver. Tiffany's sterling flatware and porcelain are new to the one-year- old boutique. In town for their introduction earlier this month was Edward Wawrynek, vice-president of product marketing at Tiffany & EDWARD WAWRYNEK... the vice-president of product marketing at Tiffany & Co. was: in. town eariier this month to introduce sterling silver fiatware to the Vancouver store. Co. and an authority on American. "decorative silver. Though Tiffany’s is “first and foremost Wawrynek said over breakfast at Tiffany’s, “it has developed a rep- utation for being the world’s finest silversmith.” The 157-year-old American company made a name for itself selling silver flatware to dress the Victorian table even though its founder, Charles Lewis Tiffany, was a jeweller by trade. Tiffany was just 25 when he 4 MONA HUBINETTE " DISCOVER SOUTHERN AFRICA Join me on February 20, 1995 for a Trip of a Lifetime. You're invited to attend a Talk & Slide Presentation Thursday October 27th at 7:30 pm Light Refreshment 926-6871 | WAYTECLIFE TRAVEL LTD. 1507 Bellevue Ave. West Vancouver a jewelry store,” . established Tiffany & Co. in New York as a stationery and fancy voods store. The company soon grew and by breakfast mid-century it scaled an agreement with a leading New York silver- smith to make holiow-ware pieces from a superior grade of sterling. Since 1869 when it introduced its first sterling silver flatware put- tern, named Tiffany, the company has created more than 50 flatware patterns. The most recent, American Garden, is the focus of a luxurious in-store table display designed by Hilary Weston, wife of Holt Renfrew owner Galen Weston. Weston chose to pair the floral- bordered American Garden porce- lain with clean-lined Hamplon flat- ware (created in 1934, this silver- ware hints at modern architectural forms but it was in fact inspired by Hampton Court, the summer palace of King Henry. VIII). Laid out on a royal blue silk dupion cloth with tassel-tied China red silk napkins, the setting is an ode to the charity-ball extravagance f the °80s. Caring about Though dining in the °90s is somewhat more low-key. Wawrynek, championing a “return to elegance,” encourages the day- on Titt to-day use of fine silver. And if you are loathe to polish silver, don't fret. “As long as you rotate the pieces, it (the silver) will all achieve the same patina,” says Wawrynek. No need to polish, just wash, dry and store. And daily use of sterling flat- ware could have a silver lining to it. According to Wawrynek, the molecular make-up of the metal affords it bactericidal properties. Sterling silver “kills germs on contact. Our greut ancestors knew this instinctively,” he says. Tiffany & Co.’s silver flatware patterns cover the entire design spectrum — Georgian, Renais- sance Revival, American Art Nouveau, Tudor, even modern. : At $125 a piece (on average), a set of Tiffany & Co. silver flat- ware doesn’t come cheap. But what better way to battle the Mean Reds than to have breakfast on Tiffany’s? clients Retirement Counselling | 7.875* 2Y2 VEAR. RRSP Subject to change without notice . E Citizens Trust Better than Monev ih the Bank . 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