1848 – 1933 · stained and leaded glass, lamps, mosaics, enamel
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Layered opalescent glass translating landscape and insects into molten colour without paint.
The record
Son of jeweller Charles Lewis Tiffany, Louis Comfort Tiffany turned from painting to glass in the late 1870s and developed opalescent Favrile glass with related patented techniques.
His Tiffany Chapel triumphed at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and Tiffany Studios in Corona, Queens supplied windows, lamps and mosaics to an international clientele into the 1920s.
He became first design director of Tiffany & Co. in 1902 and died in New York on 17 January 1933.
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Layered opalescent glass translating landscape and insects into molten colour without paint.