Tiffany Windows By Alastair Duncan
Tiffany Windows By Alastair Duncan
The indispensable book on Louis C. Tiffany's masterworks.
The stained glass legacy craftsmanship of Tiffany.
Hardcover
ISBN 0500233217
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd 1980
Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The Dust Jacket has some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover. Inscribed on the first page.
Windows were the major emphasis of Louis Comfort Tiffany's work. Yet today, most Tiffany windows have never been seen by the public. Alastair Duncan has tracked down virtually every window still extant and has documented examples that have disappeared or been destroyed. Along with providing photographs of over 200 windows, more than half in color, Duncan describes how the glass was made and the windows constructed; Tiffany's designers and the workings of the Window Department; his critics and international exhibitions; window themes; signatures; chronology; and a complete list of all Tiffany windows.
The dust cover and Hardcover book are in immaculate condition, cover is in magnificent black background with a window installed in the stairwell of the Wayne Community College, Detroit, Michigan. The glass produced by Louis Comfort Tiffany in his heyday (1890-1910) was extremely popular and made him both famous and rich. By the late 1920s, however, taste had begun to change, the 1930s Art Deco style supplanted Tiffany's Art Nouveau, and it was not until recently indeed, within the last decade ? that Tiffany glass experienced an explosive revival. Now it has become highly valued, and Tiffany objects which would have been disdained in 1950 are fetching enormous prices in the salerooms. The field in which Tiffany had his greatest success was stained glass windows; the lamps, which are perhaps more widely known today, evolved as a sideline. He had the good luck to be offering his product at a time when there were great for tunes being made in the United States and immodest private dwellings as well as new churches and chapels were being built at an unparalleled pace. Stained glass became a status symbol; it was made to order to suit the customer's own wishes and foibles; it was the perfect medium for memorials to the famous or the recently departed. ## ## Alastair Duncan, a member of the British Society of Master Glass Painters, lives in New York, where he is the Art Nouveau and Art Deco expert at Christie's. Besides working on commissions for lamps and windows in his spare time, he is the author of several books, including Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lighting. For this definitive book on Tiffany's stained glass windows he tracked down virtually every example still in situ, and is also able to document windows which have disappeared or been destroyed. He analyzes Tiffany's career and the circumstances surrounding his work; he also reproduces as comprehensive a list of Tiffany's commissions as we are ever likely to possess. But the crowning glory of the book is the magnificent selection of 230 illustrations, all specially photographed, over 114 of them in glowing colour. The result is not only a record of great beauty, but an important source book for all collectors, dealers and art-lovers.
