Color is to the Eye what Music is to the Ear

Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1848-1933 The son of Charles Tiffany, the celebrated jeweler and founder of Tiffany & Co., Louis Comfort Tiffany was an artist, innovator, and pioneer of form and color. Born in New York City in 1848, he began his career as a painter in the late 1860s, studying under a series of masters. […]

Louis C. Tiffany

People sometimes confuse Tiffany & Co., the retail store with a flagship location in New York City, with Louis Comfort Tiffany, the designer and glass artist. The store was founded in 1837 by Charles L. Tiffany (1812–1902), and John B. Young. It was originally called Tiffany & Young. Stationery and “fancy dry goods” were sold, […]

Tiffany Studios

Tiffany Studios, owned by glassmaker and artist Louis Comfort Tiffany, made lamps from about 1891 to 1928. It made many types of lamps for electric bulbs, kerosene, and oil. Tiffany was making student lamps, blown-glass oil lamps, and hanging fixtures with leaded glass globes by 1898. Bronze table and floor lamp bases were introduced in […]