Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and designer who lived from 1848 to 1933, the son of Tiffany and Co. founder Charles Lewis Tiffany, and became renowned for decorative arts, above all stained glass and his patented Favrile glass. Working within the Art Nouveau and aesthetic movements and collaborating with designers including Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler and Samuel Colman, he produced stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass vases, ceramics, jewelry and enamels, and his studio employed more than three hundred artisans at its peak. His innovations in opalescent glass and copper foil technique changed stained glass production beyond the methods that had dominated for centuries in Europe.