Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was one of the most original and influential designers and America's leading proponent of Art Nouveau. Tiffany Studios, founded in 1889, were well known for their use of sensuous, organic, and floral forms. This book features Tiffany's most beautiful stained glass vases and lamps, whose distinctive designs and iridescent, haunting colors have made them extremely popular and sought after the world over.
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"Beautifully produced... The way Baal-Teshuva interweaves history, appreciative aesthetic comments, and the artisanship behind the pieces is admirable." Maine Antique Digest, United States"
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This is truly the most fabulous book on Tiffany's works,including many illustrations of works not previously seen. As a Tiffany book collector, I know that Nuestadt's book may have more lamps illustrated, but none have the incomparable colors and qualities as the images in this book. They are truly magnificent pictures (over 400 color plates)on a black ackground and are of the same quality as Sotheby & Christie's catalog pictures. Tiffany at Auction by Alastair Duncan may be a collectors item, but having seen it, most of the pictures in that book are in black and white and do not begin to compare with this book. While the Sotheby and & Christie catalogs display beautiful pictures, they only show what people choose to sell, unlike this book that shows treasures that I have never before seen in any of the books or catalogs that I have collected.But this book has so much more. Almost every lamp picture has a close up of the actual pattern. As a stained glass worker, these close ups are sufficient for you to reproduce the design. The outstanding and superlative index at the rear contains small thumbnails of each work of art in the book with illuminating information and page number shown for easy access to the item. Actual copies of the Tiffany factory workbooks,similar to Nash's new Tiffany Notebook book, are included in this book.Of course, this book also has the requisite biography of Tiffany. One third of book is biography and windows, second third is lamps, and last third is vases, index and bibliography. You will NOT be disappointed in this book - it's the best that is available as far as I am concerned.
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Great Collection of photos,
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This book gives a detailed account of Tiffanys works in most of the mediums he chose. The photographs are gorgeous.
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Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was the most important master of the decorative arts in America's "gilded age." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bronze table lamp, landscape window, ses peintures, memorial window, bronze base, leaded glass window Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Christie's Images, Courtesy Phillips Auctioneers, Tiffany Studios, Laurelton Hall, Courtesy Macklowe Gallery, Charles Hosmer Morse Museum, Courtesy Alastair Duncan, Courtesy Art Focus, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Courtesy Ophir, Long Island, National Academy of Design, Associated Artists, Madison Avenue, William Morris, Santa Barbara, United States, World's Columbian Exposition, Bleiverglastes Fenster, Decorating Company, Detail des Lampenschirms, Egon Neustadt, Three Favrile New!
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Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was the most important master of the decorative arts in America's "gilded age." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bronze table lamp, landscape window, ses peintures, memorial window, bronze base, leaded glass window Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Christie's Images, Courtesy Phillips Auctioneers, Tiffany Studios, Laurelton Hall, Courtesy Macklowe Gallery, Charles Hosmer Morse Museum, Courtesy Alastair Duncan, Courtesy Art Focus, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Courtesy Ophir, Long Island, National Academy of Design, Associated Artists, Madison Avenue, William Morris, Santa Barbara, United States, World's Columbian Exposition, Bleiverglastes Fenster, Decorating Company, Detail des Lampenschirms, Egon Neustadt, Three Favrile New!
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- Art Nouveau (World of Art) by Alastair Duncan on page 67, and Back Matter
- Art Nouveau by Rh Value Publishing in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Lamps of Tiffany by Egon Neustadt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Modern Art by Rh Value Publishing on page 56, and Back Matter
- Art Nouveau (Abbeville Stylebooks) by Constance M. Greiff in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Louis Comfort Tiffany at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen in Front Matter, and page 69
- Brooklyn: A State of Mind by Michael W. Robbins on page 246
- Glass:: From The First Mirror To Fiber Optics, The Story Of The Substance That Changed The World by William S. Ellis in Back Matter
- Art/Shop/Eat New York by Carol von Pressentin Wright on page 24
- Sculpture, Glass and American Museums by Martha Drexler Lynn on page 170
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