Tiffany refers to Tiffany & Company, a luxury jewelry and specialty retailer, headquartered in New York City. It is synonymous with Tiffany or Tiffany’s. In 1837, the company was originally founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young as a stationery store. When Charles took over the firm’s business and established its emphasis on jewelry. Later, his son, Louis Comfort Tiffany continued to design for Tiffany & Company for jewelry, textile, book designs, and iridescence glass and lamps.
Thus, Tiffany also refers to Louis Comfort Tiffany, a Renaissance decorative artist born in 1837. His experimental, aesthetic and unique style made his artworks standout. His early interest in painting continued and he made his mark in the decorative arena. He worked on furniture, textile, pottery, enamels, jewelry and book design. Only in the late 1870s, Tiffany became interested in decorative possibilities of glass and continued it throughout his career.
Tiffany designed Favrile glass, a type of iridescent glass that has the color ingrained in the glass rather than painted. The product was trademarked in 1894. Its distinctive and vivid iridescence coloring made it very popular in using it has stained glass windows.