As said on this blog once before-
There used to be a time, years ago, when we heard the name Louis Comfort Tiffany spoken with reverence and awe in our store several times throughout the day.
You see, those were the 'sweet spot' times in our industry when art glass manufacturers were exploring, inventing and rediscovering all manner of interesting glasses such as Drapery, Ring Mottles, various iridescences, Fractures and Fracture/Streamers- of which many were the invention of Tiffany Studios back about a hundred years ago.
And we carried them all.
Heck, we even had our whole east wall full of lamp patterns and molds. We held full eight week classes just on lamp construction. Stocked well over 300 lamp bases at all times.
How things have changed.
One thing that hasn't changed though, is the genius of Louis Tiffany, and the legacy of his work and its still lingering affect on our industry today (read more about Tiffany here).
He deserves to be better known and we plan to start that here with the posting of first of a series of Tiffany works with some copy...