The Cleveland Museum of Art will hold an exhibit in January 2009 entitled Artistic Luxury and featuring the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany,Peter Carl Faberge and Rene Lalique. It will feature exhibits already in the museum and loans from private and public collections worldwide.
This will be the very first comparative study of these three great designers of the twentieth century and will open on January 18th. The curator of decorative arts and design is Stephen Harrison who brings over three hundred objects together from over fifty lenders including His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Monaco and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Other institutions lending objects include private lenders and public institutions from London, Paris, Lisbon, Berlin, Hamburg and well as from the United States. The three designers works were last seen together at the 1900 World’s Fair, held in Paris, where their rivalry was as much an attraction as their designs.
Some of the objects to be exhibited include the Magnolia Window from the Tiffany studios. This window was purchased for the collection of Baron Stieglitz in St Petersburg and has been exhibited recently in Russia. There is also a large collection of Tiffany stained glass, lamps and glass lamp shades. Jewelry featuring rare gemstones and diamonds by the Tiffany company and the Adam’s Vase, now in the New York Metropolitan Museum, but a star exhibit at the World’s Fair in 1900 will also be shown.
In a lecture by Franklin Perrell entitled “Tiffany and the Gilded Age” given at the Garden City Historical Society he revealed the identity of a stained glass window in the chapel at St Peter’s School, Garden City is indeed a Tiffany. The window is documented in the catalogue of the Tiffany studios as being sold and installed at the school. A window was also installed at the St Mary’s school but the window was destroyed when the school was demolished to make way for housing.
The building was bought by the Garden City village but sadly the windows along with the buildings have been allowed to deteriorate significantly. Villagers felt that the windows, most of which were manufactured by Clayton and Bell were valueless and were not willing to remove the windows or preserve them. The Tiffany window was in good condition when photographed in 2004 although the NY Times, in 2004, noted that “closer inspection of the chapel quickly reveals evidence of years of disuse…. The pipe organ is covered in dust, and the lead in one of the stained-glass windows has started to peel away from the glass.”
Village trustees are in disagreement over issues of preserving the building, both with each other and with outsiders who want to see the building and windows preserved. The village is also trying to overcome a New York State law that requires public use of the building. A vote in early December is scheduled to canvass public opinion in the village to decide whether to demolish the building or allowing it to be developed.
Tour the collection of lamps made by myself over a period of 20 years. It took me about 1/2 an hour´s labour per single glass piece including all preparing jobs and finishing . I am not very fast in this, but tried to achieve the best I could without caring about the expenses.
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Born in 1848, Louis Comfort Tiffany started his artistic life as an artist but grew fascinated with glass making and opened his own glass making studio in the 1890’s. He began producing the lamps that he is now famous for later in the 1890’s. They were extremely popular until the 1920’s when the wealthy classes began to consider them old fashioned. They remained unpopular until the 1960’s when a resurgence of the Art Nouveau movement brought them back into favor. During the years from 1989 to 1990 they were again collected and in 1997 Christie’s sold a Tiffany lamp for $2.8 million. Most genuine Tiffany lamps now sell for $10,000 to hundreds of thousands, depending on the size and quality of the lamp. Chrisite’s have also sold A Tiffany dragonfly table lamp for $185,000 and a Tiffany lamp with an apple blossom design for $136,000.
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Dramatic readings of Driscoll’s letters by actress Lois Chiles and curatorial commentary by Martin Eidelberg, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University; Nina Gray, independent scholar and former Associate Curator of Decorative Arts at the New-York Historical Society; and Margaret K. Hofer, N-YHS Curator of Decorative Arts.
Gallery 1: Clara’s New York World
Gallery 2: Clara Driscoll; Designing for Art & Commerce
Gallery 3: The Tiffany Girls; Lampmaking at Tiffany Studios
Some of the objects to be exhibited include the Magnolia Window from the Tiffany studios. This window was purchased for the collection of Baron Stieglitz in St Petersburg and has been exhibited recently in Russia. There is also a large collection of Tiffany stained glass, lamps and glass lamp shades. Jewelry featuring rare gemstones and diamonds by the Tiffany company and the Adam’s Vase, now in the New York Metropolitan Museum, but a star exhibit at the World’s Fair in 1900 will also be shown.
Original Tiffany stained glass lamps are beautiful examples of craftsmanship and skill and are much sought after by collectors. These days a genuine