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This is the most scholarly and current work on the subject, written by the former archivist at Tiffany & Co., Janet Zapata.  One entire chapter is devoted to work in silver, and specifically L.C. Tiffany's relationship with Tiffany & Co. (and the arts and crafts movement in general), including much more in depth work than in Charles Carpenter's Tiffany Silver!  This special price is available in limited quantities - this is going out of print, buy it now!

From the Dust Jacket:

Louis Comfort Tiffany's spectacular and highly individual Art Nouveau lamps, favrile glass vases, and stained-glass windows have long been admired throughout the world. Recently, however, his considerable accomplishments in other areas of the decorative arts have become more widely known—and equally praised. This new book is the first to concentrate on Tiffany's stunning work with fine jewelry and enamel.

Jewelry design played only a minor part in Tiffany's creativity until 1907, five years after he joined the well-known firm of his father, Charles Tiffany. It was for Tiffany & Co. that he produced some of his finest work, combining gemstones, enameling, and metalwork in necklaces, rings, brooches, and other pieces of high originality and unusual refinement. He also worked very successfully in enamel on copper, producing vases, bowls, and boxes. His pieces were exhibited to tremendous acclaim at the great international expositions of the day.

Tiffany's motifs—animals, birds, and insects, as well as plant forms—were largely taken from nature in the style of Art Nouveau. But his work also shows the influence of Oriental and Middle Eastern styles, which were highly fashionable at the end of the last century.

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. Her lively text, along with 142 magnificent illustrations, 84 of which are in full color, leaves no doubt as to Tiffany's brilliance and exceptional virtuosity.