True Story Louis Tiffany and His Mosaic Glass Wor

Do you know the man Louis Comfort Tiffany? Have you heard of his story? I bet you haven’t. He played the leading role in the campaign of Art Nouveau and he was most famous for his talented skills of making mosaic glasses, which can not only be used on shades but also on windows, doors and other things. Today real works of his are being scrambled by a lot of art museums and aution companies. Though expensive still, what we all can see in daily life are just ########s and copies.

If someone describes children from rich families as “growing up with the golden spoon in his mouth” then the spoon in Louis Comfort Tiffany’s mouth should be the most valuable and beautiful one because his father was exactly the owner of the shop Tiffany &Co., Charles Lewis Tiffany.


Louis loved painting since he was very young, and had a marvelous talent for that. His father however intended him to enter the politics, and sent him into the military school. Unfortunately he had no interest in the military classes and devoted himself into painting. As many other fathers, his father was sad he did not enter the politics but he supported the son just the same. And during this time he met the famous painter George Inness.

In the late 1800s, Paris was still the center of art worldwidely. Having an international idea of business, Charles found a jewlery dealer Gideon Reed as the partner to set up the shop, and hired Edward More as the designer. Little Louis regarded Edward as the teacher and learned from him knowledge of designing, knowledge about religion and about oriental art works. Little Louis wanted to be a painter but in this perfect family background, taught by the top teacher in the field of jewlery, he finally turned designer.

Under the instructions of More, Louis won a lot of rewards in designing exhibitions all around the world. At first he took part in the contests using his paintings but in 1872, he tried to make glasses works. In 1876 he finished his first mosaic glass window.
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