Tiffany / [author, Charles de Kay].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Kay, Charles, 1848-1935.

Parkstone Press Staff, Corporate Author.

Series:

Mega Square

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 1848-1933.

Tiffany, Louis Comfort.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Parkstone Press International, [2011?]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A jeweler with an established reputation through the world, Louis Comfort Tiffany spearheaded the Art Nouveau movement in the United States. At a time and in a country in perpetual growth, Tiffany succeeded in elevating the decorative to the rank of fine art.Tiffany's workshops specialized in glass, where they developed groundbreaking techniques that resulted in beautiful effects. Following the examples of Gallé or Daum, Tiffany made the most of colours, opaqueness and transparency. However, Tiffany's greatest success was in his mosaic glass lamps, similar to the stained-glass windows of cathe

Contents:

Biography; TIFFANY THE PAINTER; TIFFANY THE MAKER OF STAINED GLASS; THE WOMAN THAT FEARETH THE LORD, SHESHALL BE PRAISED. GIVE HER OF THE FRUIT OF HERHANDS AND LET HER OWN WORKS PRAISE HER INTHE GATES.; FAVRILE GLASS; ENAMELS AND JEWELRY; AFTERWORD; List of illustrations

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed February 11, 2016).

ISBN:

9781283957069

128395706X

9781780422329

1780422326

OCLC:

758335062