Lous Comfort Tiffany (1848 - 1933) Tiffany was an American artist and an Industrial designer Well Known for his works in stained glass and he is the artist who is more associates with the Art Nouveau movement. ? Tiffany was a painter, interior decorator, designer of windows and lamps in stained glass, mosaics of glass, blown glass, ceramics, jewels and works in metal.

Stained

Stained GlassOf all the artistic endeavors of Tiffany, stained glass brought him wider recognition. During the fifty years he has worked in the medium, from about 1877 through the 1920s, his company produces thousands of windows for buildings across North America, for homes, libraries, shops, theaters, and especially churches.

In 1890 Tiffany was demonstrating, as an expert glazier, the development of a method by means of which the different colors are mixed in molten condition, the achievement of the fine effects that was in use principally in the windows. The application of this technology to the three-dimensional form did not take place until 1893, when Tiffany founded his own oven of glass in Wreath, Queens, New York. These glasses Favrile, baptized as Tiffany, soon gained him international recognition after he showed them for the first time in his exhibition room in 1893. Glass

LightsThe fascination of Tiffany's life was the light for his innovations in the windows, but also it inspired him to find new ways of incorporating the electrical lighting in his designs. From 1885, with his work in the Lyceum Theatre in New York, Tiffany was pioneering in the artistic adaptation of the light bulb. A few years later he created distinctive metal and blown glass for the lighting of the Havemeyer house, but it was not until 1899 that his first picture of lights with bulbs of colors protected by curtains of crystal with lead, appeared publicly .

Enamels

Tiffany's work in enamels was a logical extension of his efforts in the windows: the enameled objects are essentially of glass and of glass of silicate color with metallic oxides that are applied to the copper and other metals, and then fused by high temperatures.

In spite of the connection between the two, there are small the manufacturers of American glass who experimented in this way.

CeramicsA few years after Tiffany had dominated the complex skill of enameling, he began to produce ceramics. His inspiration came from French examples that he saw in 1900 at the Universal Exhibition of Paris, where, according to the American artist of porcelain Adelaide Alsop Robineau, " he had been so enchanted with the work of the potter artists that came to house with determination to try to do ceramics ".

JewelryAfter the death of his father in 1902, Tiffany became vice-president and art director of Tiffany and Company. His familiarity with the manufacturing of jewelry of the company, as well as the collaboration with his father in several pieces for the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1900, undoubtedly, inspired him to produce jewels in his own workshops.

Metal and woodTiffany began to make metal objects near 1897, when he added a smelting for his oven of glass in Wreath. His new products were exposed in the international exhibition in 1899. Later, Tiffany extended considerably the number and the variety of designs, and during the first two decades of the 20th century his workshops turned out more than fifteen different models produced in more than thirty forms of utilitarian objects like diaries and inkstands, the thermometers etc.