Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany developed an interest in decorative arts as a partner in the firm of Louis C. Tiffany and Associated Artists, which in its four years of operation (1879-1883) provided innovative interior decoration for clients ranging from Mark Twain in Hartford, Connecticut to President Chester Arthur at the White House. (source Charles Hosmer Morse Museum)

Besides his Tiffany glass and lamps, which seems to be his ordinary legacy, as a designer, working with other craftsman, he did all sorts of things - walls, textiles, etc. This all culminated in Laurelton Hall, his home, which was an incredible design, incorporating glass, wall coverings, etc etc etc.

The pictures of the chapel here are from a reconstruction of the Laurelton Hall chapel done and on display at the Museum.

LC could have been one of the guys that anonymous New York Times critic was talking about when he talked about painters switching to the decorative arts. He painted as well, and 1881 was prime time for him. -- the molto bene wife (all this history stuff has been mine)