biography
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Tiffany, Louis (Comfort)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1848–1933)
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| biography:
| Glass maker and interior designer, born in New York City, New York, USA. After early study with painter George Innes, he founded an interior design collaborative in 1879, which decorated important residences, including the Mark Twain house, in richly orientalist fashion. But it was his exquisite Art Nouveau glass, notably his iridescent favrile glass (patented 1894), that brought international fame. The favrile glass gave his vases their flowing organic forms and came from the Tiffany Furnaces (begun 1892) and the Tiffany Studios (1902–32), and was also incorporated in his stained-glass windows, chandeliers, and tiles. He also designed lamps, furniture, textiles, ceramics, and wallpaper, and in his later years turned to jewellery. He was an officer of Tiffany & Coy, the jewellers, and he set up a foundation to support artists (1919). |
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