Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany lamps Genesis

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In October 2005, two scholars Tiffany hundreds of letters from Clara Driscoll Pierce Wolcott were the tip of the Tiffany Glass Cutting Department learned writing. Until then little known about the leaders of "The Tiffany Girls." In the resulting book, A Tiffany said in a new light, Eidelberg, Gray and Hofer's fascinating history.

Without doubt, Louis Comfort Tiffany Clara Driscoll freedom, a prolific number of Tiffany lamp design. His letters describe in detail theearly design processes for lead-glass shades, including the award-winning Dragonfly Tiffany lamp. But he has not published the work of its artists and craftsmen. They were relegated to only one or two articles of the day, and since only a few awards. This was the case with the World Fair in Paris in 1900, when Tiffany was required to disclose the name of the artist.

The woman who designed most of the Tiffany lamps 15 Born in Ohio in December 1861. His father died when shetwelve, leaving Clara and her four younger sisters in the care of his mother and aunt. They were bent by a strong artistic and literary, which unites three of the girls has led to pursue the visual arts. In the case of Clara, the basic concepts an integral part of the Tiffany lamp at the Western Reserve School of Design and Metropolitan Museum of Art School, as well as Tiffany Studios have been learned.

Known after Clara and her sister in New York in 1888, the massive correspondence as "RoundRobin, "Letters started between mother, daughter and aunt. In their descriptions of Tiffany lamps, the designs and inspiration for building" A New Light on Tiffany, "as the authors rightly so. But it would be a detour that would lead to designs inspired by Clara. Tiffany lamps would come only after Clara Tiffany materials and methods learned in shop windows.

For over six years, Clara has worked in manufacturing windows and mosaics in two different stations with the company. Here islearned to appreciate the beauty of Tiffany glass and art, to enjoy together. Yet all was not smooth sailing in their private life, and was returned only after Clara for the third time in 1897 that he began to describe in their letter, the classic designs of Tiffany lamps.