The Tiffany and Sullivan period, is part of the "Art Nouveau" era. Although this period was not as recognized in the United States as it was in France and Belgium.
Louis Comfort Tiffany came from a family of jewelers, merchants, and designers, he traveled to Europe and Africa, during his travels he focused on Romanesque, Islamic and Japanese art, using those as inspiration for his experiments with stained glass. He created many lamps made out of metal and glass, one of his most iconic lams was the Ten-light lily, 1900's.
Tiffany also contributed a glass curtain to the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico CIty in 1915.
Louis Henry Sullivan was an architect and a writer, he created a series of early skyscrapers in the 1890's. Sullivan was one of the founding fathers of modernism. His major buildings include the Auditorium 1889, the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, 1890-1891, and the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, 1894-1896.
His last major project was the Carson Pirie Scott Store, 1898-1904 in Chicago. This is one of his most poetic projects, in which a cellular superstructure grows out of an elaborately decorated two story base.
C U R R E N T A P P L I C A T I O N S
Tiffany inspired table lamp
Sullivan inspired Frank LLoyd Wright's home in Orland Park, IL
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