Thank Goodness for Old-Fashioned Letters Or We'd Never Know the Woman Behind the Tiffany Designs

Louis Comfort Tiffany knew a thing or two about branding, that’s why he never let on that anyone else besides him came up with his innovative stained glass artworks. All records related to his work was destroyed after the firm declared bankruptcy in 1932. But one his principal designers, Claire Pierce Wolcott Driscoll, kept a few records of her own, namely letters she sent to her mother, sisters and other female relatives. She wrote about how she and other women were segregated from the men, selected and cut the glass for Tiffany’s famous lamps.