The works of the Tiffany Studios revolutionized interior design in turn-of-the-century America. All of the company's works, from stained-glass windows to blown-glass vases, lamp shades to inkwells,bore the unique stamp of one man, Louis Comfort Tiffany. Many of these official Tiffany Studios pieces are well known today-avidly sought by museums and collectors worldwide. Special ones among them, as well as other lesser known pieces or the "lost" works of Louis Tiffany himself, are, in a real sense the core of his astonishing achievement. They comprise his personal oeuvre. Objects made from his original designs for exhibition, for private commissions, or for use in Tiffany's own homes. This book reevaluates Tiffany's art in terms of his personal work including pieces in all the media that attracted him over the course of his prolific career; stained glass, mosaics, blown glass, pottery, jewelry, and enamels. Tiffany's pioneering efforts in interior design are covered, as are his easel paintings and his dream of creating a permanent residential retreat for working artists. Hugh F. McKean also provides much intimate insight into Tiffany's personality, his domestic life, his financial dealings, and his unusual philosophy of art. Lavishly illustrated, the book presents a vivid display of Tiffany's wide ranging aesthetic. The result is a rare portrait of Tiffany the man and of the prodigious imagination that almost single handedly transformed the day-to-day image of a nation and an era.

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