Death Anniversary: Louis Comfort Tiffany — January 17, 1933

Louis Comfort Tiffany died in New York on 17 January 1933, by which time the Art Nouveau taste that had made him famous had given way to the rigour of the modern. His glass and his lamps, forgotten for a period, are now among the most sought-after and most imitated objects in the decorative arts. The anniversary marks his conviction that an object of everyday use, with light passing through it, could be a work of art.