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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The designing of jewelry played only a minor part in Tiffany’s activities until 1907 five years after he joined the well-known firm of his father Charles Tiffany as Artistic Director and Vice-President. It was for Tiffany & Co. that he produced some of his finest pieces combining gemstones enamelling and metalwork in designs of high originality and unusual refinement as well as delightful objects made of enamel on copper such as vases bowls and boxes. These were acclaimed at all the international expositions of the period. Tiffany’s motifs were largely taken from nature: animals birds and insects as well as plant forms. But his work also shows the fruitful influence of Oriental and Middle Eastern historical decorative examples. Janet Zapata who worked for a number of years with the Tiffany & Co. archives and has made a special study of the lifetime achievement of Louis Comfort Tiffany gives a detailed and informative account of this hitherto neglected aspect of his output. An impressive selection of colour and black and white photographs illustrates these highly valued masterpieces of the jeweler’s art.