"Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 - 1933) is famous in his own right, but his name is often associated with that of Tiffany & Co. the firm founded by his father, Charles Lewis Tiffany.
April 7, 2006 (Press Release) --
"Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 - 1933) is famous in his own right, but his name is often associated with that of Tiffany & Co. the firm founded by his father, Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812-1902), since its inception in 1837, America's foremost retailer of luxury goods.....Although his father had intially hoped that his son would succeed him as head of the company, Louis Comfort Tiffany's early interest in painting soon blossomed into other fields of artistic endeavor."
"In 1879, he seized up the suggestion of Candace Wheeler that he join with Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form a firm that would apply aesthetic idealism to the practice of interior design. Impelled by Tiffany's leadership and nascent talent, as well as by his father's money and connections, 'Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists' thrived until 1885.....A desire to pursue independent endeavors lead to the breakup of the firm in 1885, when Tiffany chose to concentrate on art in glass, establishing his new business later that year."
"Even after initiating a successful independent career, Louis was encouraged to maintain close ties with the family firm, as Charles Lewis Tiffany realized that his son's artisitic prowess, affirmed by international honors at museum and gallery shows, would work to their mutual advantage." [L. C. Tiffany became Artistic Director of Tiffany & Co. after his father's death in 1902, and the company sold many Tiffany Studios wares - ed.]
"Tiffany actually had begun his glass experiments about 1875 to 1878, when he was working first at glasshouses in Brooklyn, where his later rival, John La Farge was also working, both being particularly interested in opalescent glass. Tiffany's early patents date from 1880-81. He incorporated the first Tiffany Glass Company on December 1, 1885, which later [1900] became known as Tiffany Studios, and remained in business until 1928 [after 1919 sometimes using the factory's name and mark of Tiffany Furnaces - ed.]. Tiffany trademarked the name Favrile, derived from the old french word for handmade, to generically describe his production."
"Louis Comfort Tiffany actually located [c. 1893] his Tiffany Studios factory, called the Tiffany Glass Furnaces, in Corona, Queens.....Here Tiffany functioned as the ultimate authority over more than three hundred workers, designers and artists, glass blowers and gaffers, and artisans of numerous other tasks."
"Tiffany's first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895, though some early examples were exhibited in the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago."
"After 1900, Tiffany Studios produced a wide array of objects employing glass, and other diverse materials."
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"In 1879, he seized up the suggestion of Candace Wheeler that he join with Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form a firm that would apply aesthetic idealism to the practice of interior design. Impelled by Tiffany's leadership and nascent talent, as well as by his father's money and connections, 'Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists' thrived until 1885.....A desire to pursue independent endeavors lead to the breakup of the firm in 1885, when Tiffany chose to concentrate on art in glass, establishing his new business later that year."
"Even after initiating a successful independent career, Louis was encouraged to maintain close ties with the family firm, as Charles Lewis Tiffany realized that his son's artisitic prowess, affirmed by international honors at museum and gallery shows, would work to their mutual advantage." [L. C. Tiffany became Artistic Director of Tiffany & Co. after his father's death in 1902, and the company sold many Tiffany Studios wares - ed.]
"Tiffany actually had begun his glass experiments about 1875 to 1878, when he was working first at glasshouses in Brooklyn, where his later rival, John La Farge was also working, both being particularly interested in opalescent glass. Tiffany's early patents date from 1880-81. He incorporated the first Tiffany Glass Company on December 1, 1885, which later [1900] became known as Tiffany Studios, and remained in business until 1928 [after 1919 sometimes using the factory's name and mark of Tiffany Furnaces - ed.]. Tiffany trademarked the name Favrile, derived from the old french word for handmade, to generically describe his production."
"Louis Comfort Tiffany actually located [c. 1893] his Tiffany Studios factory, called the Tiffany Glass Furnaces, in Corona, Queens.....Here Tiffany functioned as the ultimate authority over more than three hundred workers, designers and artists, glass blowers and gaffers, and artisans of numerous other tasks."
"Tiffany's first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895, though some early examples were exhibited in the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago."
"After 1900, Tiffany Studios produced a wide array of objects employing glass, and other diverse materials."
Source: http://search.msn.com
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