A Brief History on Tiffany Studios Lamps and the Difference between "Tiffany Studios" and "Tiffany and Company"
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 - 1933) is often associated with Tiffany & Co., the firm founded by his father, Charles Lewis Tiffany. Although Charles had hoped his son would succeed him as head of the company, Louis' interests leaned more readily toward those of an artistic nature. I think it could be said that Charles Tiffany was a creative but conservative man and his son Louis was a creative and much more "liberal" in his business and personal life interests.
A Tiffany Studios authentic mark used on his lamps on the inner bottom metal rim edge.
Louis Tiffany began his art glass experiments sometime between 1872 and 1878. He purchased glass from 'glass houses'in Brooklyn, New York before he installed his own glass furnaces at Corona on Long Island.Tiffany adapted the Tiffany trademark in 1900. His factory employed more than three hundred workers: designers, artists, glass blowers, and numerous other artisans.
Tiffany's first commercially produced leaded lamps date from around 1898-99, just in time to be presented at the 1900 "Exposition Universelle" in Paris. Prior to this, the firm's lamp commissions were almost entirely part of its work for church interiors, such as windows.
In addition to lamps and lamp shades, Tiffany Studios also produced vases, scent bottles, tiles, stained-glass windows, glass mosaics and desk furniture. The company remained in business until 1928. Tiffany Studios, renamed The Louis C. Tiffany Furnaces in the early 1920s, remained in business until 1937, even after its furnaces in Corona had been sold to an employee, Douglas Nash, in 1928. After 1928 it was managed by Joseph Briggs to complete outstanding commissions - for the most part church windows - from a workshop in Manhattan. Tiffany died on January 17, 1933, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
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