pickThe Tiffany Girls, a historical novel,is set in a boarding house & L.C. Tiffany‘s factory in Corona neighborhood of Queens NY.It is 1899 & Tiffany is feverishly preparing for the Paris World Fair.Tiffany‘s “girls” are the designers, glass cutters & assemblers of his visions.Clara Driscoll, a real life designer of stained glass windows & lamps in her own right,supervises the girls on the factory floor.Among the boarding house residents are Emilie🔽
kspenmoll 🔼 the daughter of a Parisian art forger,who leaves Paris to embark on a new life in NY, hopefully to be accepted as a Tiffany girl. Her roommate & friend,Grace,is an expert copyist with aspirations to break into the news world as a social/political cartoonist. We follow them in NY, to Paris for the World Fair, & back to NY. This novel opened up a previous unknown world to me- that of Tiffany, stained glass, & his “girls.” 11mo
kspenmoll FYI: This article says it all: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/stories/articles/2015/01/12/who-were-tiffany-g... (edited) 11mo
