Tiffany Studios
Tiffany Studios (1885-1930), founded by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) the American artist and designer, produced a range of mosaics, lamps, pottery, jewellery, and stained glass windows. Tiffany, along with his rival John La Farge, is particularly noted for his work with opalescent glass, also known as American Glass. This is a type of iridescent glass, where different colours are fused together during production to produce subtle effects of shading and colour, for which both had secured patents by 1881. In late 1892 or early 1893 Tiffany went on to develop a method whereby different colours were instead blended together in the molten state, so achieving subtle effects of shading and texture, which he called ‘Favrile’.
