Louis Comfort Tiffany Research Paper

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Louis Comfort Tiffany is one of America’s most acclaimed artists that began his career as a painter working under the influence of George Inness and Samuel Colman. Although he did not completely give up painting beginning in the late 1870s he did set his attention towards decorative arts and interiors.
His first significant interior design project was for his 1878 top-floor home and studio at the Bella Apartments on 48 East 26th Street in New York City. The leaded-glass window from the entrance hall, one of his earliest windows, illustrates an unconventional use of glass, including experimental opalescent, marbleized, and confetti-type glass, as well as crown glass and rough-cut "jewels." (MetMuseum) Tiffany’s “Magnolia and Irises” was a window

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