Tiffany Taste, Signed to Kenneth by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
[Signed Presentation to Kenneth from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis] Loring, John. Tiffany Taste. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is inscribed, “For Kenneth, with all good wishes at Christmas, Jackie.”
“You have to realize that I cannot put my name on a commercial enterprise,” Doubleday editor Jacqueline Onassis told Tiffany’s creative director John Loring when she agreed to edit the books about Tiffany. Though her name is not present, her wit and sense of style are throughout in this attractive book of imaginative table arrangements (collaborations with a variety of glittering personalities from 1980s international society). Onassis considered the project “social document, not advertising,” and posterity has proven her to be correct.
“There was a small group of writers with whom [Mrs. Onassis] repeatedly published books, because she trusted them, admired them, and had fun working with them. In that group is . . . Tiffany’s design director, John Loring.”
--William Kuhn, Reading Jackie, Her Autobiography in Books
