VISITORS to this week's fair will be able to enjoy jewellery pieces from an Estate and Antique collection considered to be one of the world's most prestigious.
Fred Leighton's collection has jewellery from every era, including the graceful Art Nouveau, Art Deco, the 19th century, the 1940s - considered a time for audacious designs - and from as far afield as Europe and East Asia.
For the fair, he is presenting Art Deco jewellery designed by Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, Mauboussin, Boucheron and Bel Perron.
He has also chosen court jewels of 19th-century Europe and exotic treasures from Indian maharajahs.
New York-born and bred, Mr Leighton was driven to collect by a love of beautiful things.
As a young man, he opened a Mexican import shop in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, and stocked a wide variety of goods: hand-painted sculptures; colourful paper flowers; hand-embroidered garden frocks and wedding dresses; and Mexican and American Indian jewellery.
He developed a more refined taste for jewellery, and in particular, a love for delicate, Victorian, one-of-a-kind pieces.