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Article: Tiffany Masterworks
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 5, 1989
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Mention the name Tiffany and most people think of jewelry. Or
the Audrey Hepburn movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Or perhaps, for
readers of the financial pages, Donald Trump who is buying into the
company.
Art enthusiasts might answer Tiffany lampshades. Yet few would
recall Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) as more than a leading glass
maker of the art nouveau movement. Scion of the noted merchant
family, he was also a painter, an interior decorator for the rich and
famous of his era, a jewelry designer, an art collector and a bon
vivant to boot.
It is his lesser known aesthetic accomplishments that the
organizers of the upcoming exhibit at the Renwick Gallery also aim to
highlight. ...