Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) is celebrated today as one of the most influential creative designers of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls presents the celebrated works of Tiffany Studios in an entirely new context, focusing on the Tiffany Girls, the 27 women who laboured behind the scenes to create the masterpieces now inextricably linked to the Tiffany name. Recently discovered correspondence written by Ohio-born Clara Driscoll, head of the so-called Women's Glass Cutting Department at Tiffany Studios, reveals in convincing and vivid detail how it was in fact Driscoll who generated designs for such masterpieces as the famous Wisteria, Dragonfly and Peony goods. At the heart of the book are over 50 Tiffany lamps, windows, ceramics, enamels and mosaics, supplemented by a wide array of related documents and archival photographs.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Giles The Limited, D.
ISBN-10
1904832350
ISBN-13
9781904832355
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59086341
Product Key Features
Author
Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray, Margaret K. Hofer
Language
English
Topic
Glass & Glassware, Decorating, Glass, Jewelry
Dimensions
Item Length
11in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
8.5in
Item Weight
40.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Book Title
New Light ON Tiffany : Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls
Reviews
"Provide[s] a new understanding of the techniques and procedures used to produce the extraordinary objects that made Tiffany such an exalted name in American Design" Jeffrey Kastner, The New York Times "The catalogue provides a fascinating account of Driscoll's personal and professional life" Isabel Taube, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Provide[s] a new understanding of the techniques and procedures used to produce the extraordinary objects that made Tiffany such an exalted name in American Design" Jeffrey Kastner, The New York Times The catalogue provides a fascinating account of Driscoll's personal and professional life" Isabel Taube, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide