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Magnificent Tiffany Silver

Name: Magnificent Tiffany Silver
Author: John Loring
ISBN: 9780810942738

by John Loring

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"Tiffany & Co., America's preeminent purveyor of jewels and luxury goods, has created extraordinary silver pieces since its founding in 1837. The first comprehensive book exclusively showcasing these astonishing works, Magnificent Tiffany Silver reveals the breadth and depth of Tiffany's remarkable triumphs in the field of American silver design and production." "Through a lively, anecdotal text - enriched with never-before-published information - and more than 300 illustrations, Tiffany & Co. design director John Loring illuminates hundreds of lavish silver objects as well as the world in which they were made and presented. We encounter royalty and business titans, sports champions and cultural luminaries, and the country's social elite, who were the primary patrons of the prestigious firm of silversmiths." Magnificent Tiffany Silver is divided into six chapters, reflecting the entire range of period styles as well as signature styles in the Tiffany repertoire. The careers of the firm's great silver designers - such as Edward C. Moore, James Whitehouse, Eugene Soligny, Charles Osborne, John T. Curran, Paulding Farnham, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Van Day Truex, and Elsa Peretti - are discussed, as are the characteristics of the workmanship attributable to each master designer.

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At the top of its trade in many of its luxury items, Tiffany & Co. is, unsurprisingly, no slouch when it comes to silver. In Magnificent Tiffany Silver, John Loring, Tiffany's design director (some of his work appears here), traces the classic and more unusual designs to have come from the company's silver line since its birth in 1837. Trophies for the Preakness Stakes (1917) and the 2000 PGA tour, American Victorian loving cups, three-foot-tall Anheiser-Busch punch bowls from the 1860s, after-dinner coffee services, deco candelabras, chalices, nouveau vanity cases, jewelry boxes and so on grace the 345 photos (300 in full color) of this thorough art historical study. (Nov.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.