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MB255：\4,900- Tiffany Girls
ハードカバー 28x22x2.4cm 200頁
2005年秋のこと、ティファニーランプ本の著者Eidelberg氏の講演会の後、氏に一人の男が近づき『私はティファニーに勤めていたクララ・ドリスコルの血筋を引くものです。手紙など遺っていますが興味ありますか』と話かけてきました。
これをきっかけにティファニー工房に勤めていた女性たちのことが次第に明らかになってきます。ティファニーの代表作といわれるドラゴンフライなどのランプをデザインしたのが実はクララ・ドリスコル
Clara Driscoll
という女性だったこと。工房ではガラスを選んだり切ったりする部門は女性たちで占められていたこと。ドリスコルのほかにも、女性デザイナーたちがいたこと等々。更に合わせて60余名にのぼるティファニー・ガールズの名前や略歴も判明・・・。2007年にはこの本の刊行と合わせて、ニューヨークで展覧会が開催。会期中にも、叔母や祖母がティファニー・ガールだったという関係者が次々と現れ大きな反響を呼びました。
Book Description
Looking into how the highly-valued Tiffany lamps and other fine objects came to be,
the three authors disclose the critical, unique part Clara Driscoll had in this. Driscoll
served as a major creative force for many Tiffany lamps by her own artistic sense and as
director of a staff of other talented women. Recently found correspondence of
Driscoll's--an Ohio native who lived from 1861 to 1944--verifies that she was mostly
responsible for the classic Tiffany designs of the Wisteria, Dragonfly, and Peony.
The authors do not aim to devalue Louis Comfort Tiffany's (1848-1933) role and reputation
in giving Driscoll her due. They seek mainly to lay out a broader, more informed
understanding of the creation of the timeless Tiffany works. Parts of the book go beyond
Driscoll's place in the company to see her as representative of sprightly, adventuresome,
and bright young American woman coming into the American workforce and into large cities
in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Besides Driscoll, there were a number of other
similarly-talented and -natured women who contributed to the inimitable design and
outstanding status of the Tiffany lamps and other objects. Collectively known as the
"Tiffany Girls," many are pictured in available period photographs; and all
known are given biographical notes.
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