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Presents brand new information about the creative process behind the production of lamps, stained glass panels and other wonderful products of the Tiffany Studios, as well as the individuals behind the products and designs Fully illustrated with over 70 colour plates of wonderful Tiffany lamps, stained-glass panels and glass mosaics, and featuring rare black-and-white archival images Presents new information on the designing, production and marketing of Tiffany lamps gleaned from recently discovered correspondence written by Clara Driscoll,head of the so-called “Women's Glass Cutting Department” at Tiffany Studios Explores the role of the “Tiffany girls”-the 27 women responsible for making Tiffany lamps, windows, mosaics, and other luxury goods-and their talented leader and designer, Clara Driscoll The volume also features biographies on all the women workers 76 colour and 30 mono illustrations

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9781904832355

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Provide[s] a new understanding of the techniques and procedures used to produce the extraordinary objects that made Tiffany such an exalted name in American Design Jeffrey Kastner, The New York Times <br><br> The catalogue provides a fascinating account of Driscoll's personal and professional life Isabel Taube, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

Provide[s] a new understanding of the techniques and procedures used to produce the extraordinary objects that made Tiffany such an exalted name in American Design Jeffrey Kastner, The New York Times The catalogue provides a fascinating account of Driscoll s personal and professional life Isabel Taube, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide Provide[s] a new understanding of the techniques and procedures used to produce the extraordinary objects that made Tiffany such an exalted name in American Design Jeffrey Kastner, The New York Times The catalogue provides a fascinating account of Driscoll's personal and professional life Isabel Taube, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

Provide[s] a new understanding of the techniques and procedures used to produce the extraordinary objects that made Tiffany such an exalted name in American Design Jeffrey Kastner, The New York Times The catalogue provides a fascinating account of Driscoll's personal and professional life Isabel Taube, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

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Margi Hofer is Associate Curator of Decorative Arts at New-York Historical Society.Martin Eidelberg is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University and is author of Vendome's recently published Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany (2005)Nina Gray is co-author of the recent exhibition publication Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages (2004)

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