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Title
Tiffany Lamps - Tiffany Style Stained Glass Lamps
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- Louis Comfort Tiffany History - Louis Comfort Tiffany was born in New York City February 18, 1848 the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany who founded the prestigious New York silver and jewelry firm Tiffany & Co. His father company founded in 1837 catered to the wealthy elite, presidents and royalty such as Queen Victoria of England. At the age of 18 Louis began to study art under American landscape artist George Inness. In his 20’s Louis traveled widely in Europe and visited Spain, North Africa and the Middle East. There Louis developed an interest in Islamic architecture and ornament, Romanesque and Moorish art, and Japanese ceramics. Growing up in such a wealthy family had enabled Tiffany to travel in Europe four times between 1865-1872. On his return to the United States in 1872, at the age of 24 Tiffany began his first studies in glass and mosaics. Later his experiments with iridescent glass were conducted by exposing hot glass to a series of fumes and metallic oxides. Over the years Tiffany Studios would produce many stained glass windows, lamps and glass vessels using his famous “iridescent” glass.
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- 500 Green Briar Trail
- Eureka MT 59917 US
