Before there were ever any of his Tiffany lamps or beautiful stained glass panels, Louis Comfort Tiffany was first and foremost a painter. tiffany At the age of 17 Tiffany left school to study art with George Innes in New York. In a very short two years one of his paintings was accepted into the Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design. Over the next 30 years his paintings, mostly watercolors but some oils as well, were seen in some of the top galleries wow gold in such cities as Philadelphia, Chicago, and Paris.

Though Louis C. Tiffany is best known for his stained glass windows and Tiffany lamps the family business was and still is fine jewelry. yves saint laurent Louis's father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, used precious metals and rare gemstones to create beautiful jewelry to be sold at his Tiffany & Co. store.

When Charles passed away, jordan boots Louis began working more at Tiffany & Co where he began designing his own fine jewelry. Instead of concentrating on jewelry for the American elite, Louis began thinking of jewelry affordable to the common man. Whether you look at his stained glass panels or his fine handmade lamps Tiffany was a expert at bringing high quality items to more than just the ugg cardy boots elite. Tiffany was much more than an artist he was also one of the first industrial designers.

Jewelry designed by Louis Tiffany used stones that matched the colors he used in his beautiful stained glass works. These pieces featured gemstones abercrombie and fitch from all over the US that wear the centerpiece in affordable jewelry that could be purchased and worn by the common man. Over the years this Tiffany art jewelry has been lost in the shadows of his other fine works but in recent years they have come back into the limelight.