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Louis Comfort Tiffany ( February 18 , 1848 – January 17 , 1933 ) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in Stained Glass and is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler , and Samuel Colman . Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewelry, enamels and metalwork. PERSONAL LIFE Louis was the son of , 1886 . They had the following children: Louise Comfort Tiffany (1887-1974); Julia DeForest (1887-1973); Annie Olivia Tiffany (1888-1892); and Dorothy Trimble Tiffany (1891-1979). He went to school at the Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey . His first artistic training was as a painter, studying under George Inness and Samuel Colman in New York City , and Léon Bailly in Paris . CAREER He became interested in Glass making from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879, he joined with Samuel Colman and Lockwood De Forest to form ''Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists''. Tiffany's leadership and talent, as well as by his father's money and connections, led this business to thrive. A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 , when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm later that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated on December 1 , 1885 , which in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios . Tiffany used Opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in glass paint or enamels on colorless glass that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for several hundred years in Europe. (The First Presbyterian Church building of 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is unique in that it uses Tiffany windows that partially make use of painted glass.) Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivated by the ideals of the Arts And Crafts Movement and its leader William Morris in England . Fellow artist and glassmaker John La Farge was one of Tiffany's chief competitors, along with Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner of The Duffner And Kimberly Company, in this new American style of stained glass. Tiffany, La Farge, and Kimberly had learned their craft at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn in the late- 1870s . In 1893 Tiffany built a new factory, called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens , New York . In 1893 , his company also introduced the term, '' Favrile '' in conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory. Some early examples of his lamps were exhibited in the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago . He trademarked '' Favrile '' (from the old French word for handmade) on November 13 , 1894 . He later used this word to apply to all of his glass, enamel and pottery. Tiffany's first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895. Much of his company's production was in making stained glass windows and Tiffany Lamps , but his company designed a complete range of interior decorations. At its peak, his factory employed more than 300 artisans. He used all his skills in the design of his own house, the 84-room Laurelton Hall , in Oyster Bay , Long Island , completed in 1905 . Later this estate was donated to his foundation for art students along with 60 acres (243,000 m&2) of land, sold in 1949, and was destroyed by a fire in 1957 . The . Some were replaced by full-scale color transparencies after the museum opened. A major exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum Of Art on Laurelton Hall opened in November 2006. A new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society through 28 May 2007 features new information about the women who worked for Tiffany and their contribution to designs credited to Tiffany. {Link without Title} Tiffany maintained close ties with the family firm. The Tiffany Company sold many products produced by the studios. He became Artistic Director of Tiffany & Co. after his father's death in 1902. The Tiffany Studios remained in business until 1932. DEATH He died on January 17 , 1933 , and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York . SOCIETIES
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