Accompanying a major travelling exhibition, this volume shows the entire range of the Newcomb Pottery's creative output - its prized art pottery, textiles, metalwork and jewellery, bookbindings, and graphics - in the context of American artistic and social developments in the early years of the mode[...]
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) found inspiration in the gardens of Laurelton Hall, his vast country estate on Long Island's North Shore. There, Tiffany carefully drew and painted the flowering trees, vines, flowers, and fauna that were the chief ornaments of his prized glass lamps. This sumptuous[...]