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    LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY

    Aug 29, 2019 5 minutes

    Glass is an amazingly versatile medium and its continual evolution, both as a utilitarian and decorative material, has given us a wonderful historic legacy of craft and creation underpinned by innovative designers, scientists and ancient dynasties. It is a material that crosses divides, allowing for continual experimentation and development with its varied properties, strengths and weaknesses. Yet it is partly this fragility which also makes it so special, for in many ways it can also be ephemeral and impermanent, creating objects and works of great rarity and originality.

    Key among those notable and creative protagonists in the world of decorative glass is Louis Comfort Tiffany. Famed mainly in popular terms for his much-copied lamps and lighting, his contribution to the world of decorative arts is indisputably one of America’s greatest creative exports, putting

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