Tiffany lamps are Art Nouveau-style luminaires created by Louis Comfort Tiffany. This American artist created the company Tiffany Studio in New York. 

It was a complete artist who painted, made furniture and jewels. He was born on February 18, 1848 in New York City where he died on January 17, 1933.

He began the work of glass in 1924, when he met Don married Mary Woodbridge Goddard. Before working for him, and creating different companies, he worked for several glassworks. It was in 1885 that he created his first company.

The glass of lamps it is with this material that it is best known, in several forms: vases, stained glass,, lamps, jewellery, decorative objects. He created several novelties and filed patents on the glassmaker technique.

Including patents: famous "draped glasses" where molten dough is folded on itself, which use several layers of layered glass, with the inclusion of pieces of coloured glasses. But also the well-known and remarkable "Favrile glass" that includes metal salts.

The creation of lampshades with "Tiffany stained glass Windows" was the main activity for Tiffany who manufactured several thousand luminaires in her factory. He designed the drawings with his team, including the well-known members of Frederick Wilson and Agnès Northrop.

The main themes were landscapes and religion with stained glass Windows. Its technique does not use the traditional lead crimping, but a coating of the glasses with a copper tape sticker in order to facilitate the adhesion of the Tin on the weld.

His lamps remain his most recognized creations, even though Tiffany preferred to mass production, the manufacture and the invention of unique works. They coincide with the invention of electric lighting. The decorations with flowers and Art Nouveau-style plants have made a part of the artist's reputation.

Resources:

Blog article about lamps Tiffany in history.

This is a summary of the article Wikipedia on the artist Louis Comfort Tiffany.

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