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Faberge

1902 from Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920), Russian jeweler.

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Fabergé (disambiguation)

Fabergé may refer to:

  • House of Fabergé, a Russian jewelry firm founded by Gustav Faberge in 1842
  • Fabergé workmaster, goldsmiths who produced jewelry for the House of Fabergé
  • Fabergé eggs, the most famous works of the House of Faberge
  • Fabergé (cosmetics), a brand name of the Anglo-Dutch Unilever conglomerate
  • Fabergé et Cie, a Paris jewelry firm founded by sons of the Russian firm
  • Fabergé Inc., a brand name company acquiring the name in 1937/1964.

Fabergé may refer to people:

  • Gustav Fabergé (1814 – 1893), a Russian jeweler of Baltic and French descent
  • Peter Carl Fabergé (1846 – 1920), jeweler, son of Gustav
  • Tatiana Fabergé (b. 1930), granddaughter of Peter Carl
  • Theo Fabergé (1922 – 2007), grandson of Peter Carl
  • Sarah Fabergé, daughter of Theo
  • Alexander Fabergé (1912 – 1988, died at 75), geneticist and lecturer, grandson of Peter Carl, see University of Texas obituary
Fabergé (cosmetics)

Fabergé was a brand of cosmetics manufactured between 1964 and 1984 under the direction of George Barrie. In 1984, McGregor acquired Fabergé and discontinued many Faberge products.

Usage examples of "faberge".

Presumably with a fabulous Faberge bibelot representing the Signs of the Zodiac in their possession.

I mean, they are 3-dimensional, they are highly coloured, they are in motion, these elf-like creatures that one encounters in the DMT space are, I've described them as self-transforming basketballs, they are like jeweled basketballs and they come toward you and then they recede and they're singing in these silvery voices which make objects, they have a language which is visibly beheld -- a favourite theme of mine that we didn't get to tonight -- they make a language which they then present to you -- the objectified language -- and it looks rather like Faberge eggs or sorts of toys that alien astronauts might give their children to amuse them.

Infrequent but well-paying guest conductorships and occasional TV work kept him afloat, if not in a position to begin collecting Faberge eggs.

This time the bright Faberge egg ships bounced toward narhii-Vhiliinyar rather than from it, and only one lone ship, the new one she'd seen the techoartisans working on with the clan colors of Acorna's illustrious clan ancestress, bounced up from the planet's surface.

In a matter of an hour or two, the Faberge egg crate spaceport was emptied of ships.

He picked up the field gun, admiring it from every angle as if it were a Faberge egg.

It was Caroline's impression that Adams was kept like some rare fragile Faberge egg in a carefully arranged, all-cushioned and heated, nest: would the egg then hatch?

In the image on the screen Stickney's dome shone like a Faberge egg, but the eye was drawn away from that to the moon's leading edge, which was blurry and streaked with white flashes of ejecta and gases.

The dummy was a featureless pink plaster head in a ratty wig, but it was hinged at the ears so that the face could split open down the middle and reveal an inner structure of blue muscles and a white skull as intricate as a Faberge egg.

Paul's Cathedral rising like a Faberge egg from the white stone lattice of the City.

It was the sort of cake that used to be sold in common milk shops, and was now a fantasy found only in the most special buffets - a little less rare, say, than a Faberge egg.