1846–1933

The son of Charles Tiffany, who founded the jewelry store Tiffany and Co., Louis Comfort became the preeminent designer in the American Aesthetic movement. Over a fifty–year career he helped establish New York’s reputation as a center of design and decorative arts. His company, Louis C. Tiffany and Associated Artists, did interior design and also ran Tiffany Studios in Corona, Queens, which produced his famous stained–glass lamps. His glasswork was notable not only for remarkable beauty and detailing, but also for the techniques he used: he received several patents for new types of opalescent and iridescent glass, with various textures and tones that were essential to the detailing of his works.