Thursday, September 27, 2012

Illuminating Tiffany

Greetings from the Jean Outland Chrysler Library!

This month the Library is featuring an exhibit of rare Tiffany books as an accompaniment to the museum's current exhibition The Natural Beauty of Tiffany. The exhibit includes scarce art books inscribed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Blue Books from the turn of the century, and other miscellaneous pamphelts that go as far back as 1845! The photo shown below is the first page of the photo album that contains 100 original photographs of lamps made by Tiffany Studios in New York between 1898 and 1918. The photographs, made under the personal supervision of Louis C. Tiffany, have never been reproduced. Come to the Library to check out the rare treat!