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11 unusual facts about Louis Comfort Tiffany


Art glass

The technique of using copperfoil is mainly used in the construction of smaller pieces such as Tiffany style lamps, and it was, in fact, frequently used by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Cameo glass

Cameo glass Louis Comfort Tiffany made only a small number of cameo pieces, which were a French specialty in this period, though other firms such as the Czech Moser Glass were also producers.

Charles Comfort Tiffany

After her death, he commissioned a stained glass window in her memory showing the view from their Connecticut summer home, from the firm of his relative Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Charles W. Clinton

Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue between East 66th and East 68th Street, with interior work by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Alexander Roux, Francis Davis Millet, and the Herter Brothers, 1880

Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building

Individual craftspeople and designers like Louis Comfort Tiffany, whose work can be seen in the Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building continued to work for upper class patrons, but inexpensive, factory-made chairs, tables, beds, and stands flooded and eager market of middle-class Victorians.

Fenton Art Glass Company

From 1905 to 1920, the designs made there were heavily influenced by two other glass companies: Tiffany and Steuben.

Krunski Venac

At the time, Tesla collaborated in the design of the fountains with the famed US stained glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Margie's Candies

Some of its trademark features are its multiple original Tiffany lamps, a marble soda fountain, and old-fashioned booths with miniature jukeboxes.

Rippled glass

Louis Comfort Tiffany made use of such textured glass to represent, for example, water or leaf veins.

Saint Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church

St. Paul's features 17 impressive stained-glass windows crafted by Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios, The Gorham Company, Franz Mayer & Co. and Heaton, Butler and Bayne.

St. Luke's and St. Margaret's Church

Particularly notable is a large window on the east wall by the Tiffany studio of New York; the window depicts St John on the island of Patmos and was the first stained glass window in the parish, originally set in the south wall of the original chapel, then surrounded with additional glass upon its placement in the new church, and restored in the 1990s.


Anglo-Japanese style

In the United States some of the glass and silverwork by Louis Comfort Tiffany, textiles and wallpaper by Candace Wheeler, and the furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, Daniel Pabst, Nimura and Sato, and the Herter Brothers (particularly that produced after 1870) shows influence of the Anglo-Japanese style.

Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia

Philadelphia's Church of the Holy Trinity is also known for its numerous stained glass windows, including five by Louis Comfort Tiffany and one by Luc-Olivier Merson.

Kalup Linzy

He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop, and in 2005 received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.