Re-visiting Margi Hofer's 2007 book "A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls"

  • February 10, 2010 20:07

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Margi Hofer, "A New Light on Tiffany"

In 1906, the highest paid female in the U.S. was a woman born and raised in Tallmadge, Ohio, who was making it big in the big city. Clara (Wolcott) Driscoll moved to New York City and became Louis Comfort Tiffany's go-to designer. Driscoll is noted for her jewelry and glass lamp designs such as the wisteria lamp, one of her most famous pieces, inspired by wisteria her mother picked in Tallmadge and shipped to her...

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