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Nel 1892, a Manhattan, un'elaborata insegna in bronzo fa bella mostra di sé. Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company declama la scritta che campeggia sopra una solida porta di vetro molato. Oltre quella porta, si schiude un grande salone con enormi vetrate appese al soffitto e imponenti mosaici poggiati alle pareti. E poi vasi dalle linee morbide, pendole, candelabri Art Nouveau, lampade con paralumi di vetro soffiato in mille splendidi colori. È il regno di Louis Comfort Tiffany, pittore di quadri orientalisti raffiguranti minareti, moschee e beduini, secondo il gusto del tempo. La Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company è, tuttavia, anche il regno delle Tiffany girls, le ragazze di Tiffany, come sono chiamate a Manhattan le donne che l'artista ha riunito attorno a sé. Vi è Wilhelmina, impertinente diciassettenne dall'alta statura, Mary diciottenne dai capelli rossi, Cornelia, riservata e taciturna, Agnes, l'altera, la prima donna cui Tiffany ha accordato l'onore di dipingere i soggetti delle sue vetrate. E, infine, Clara Wolcott Driscoll. Giovane vedova in un laboratorio dove vige la regola, imposta dal padre di Louis, di impiegare solo fanciulle non maritate, Clara è l'artefice autentica delle creazioni Tiffany. "Una ragazza da Tiffany" è, soprattutto, la sua storia. Una storia in cui l'autrice non celebra soltanto un talento misconosciuto, ma illumina anche gli slanci, i desideri e le ambizioni di una giovane donna nella città americana pronta a tuffarsi nella grande avventura del Novecento.
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- Pagine: 504
- Data di uscita: 07-07-2016
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The entire time I was reading Susan Vreeland's "Clara and Mr. Tiffany" I couldn't get out of my head that Clara Driscoll's ties to her boss, Louis Comfort Tiffany, reminded me a lot of another relationship that has so captured my attention——and that's Don Draper and Peggy Olsen. Leave it to a Mad Men Leggi tutto
Didn't finish this one- got to a bit over 100 pages and then realized that I didn't care what happened next. The premise was interesting: a woman artist working in a time when female artists weren't recognized, Tiffany glass, New York at the turn of the twentieth century. I wanted to fall into the bo Leggi tutto
Wow. My mother read this a few years ago, and I knew it didn't thrill her, but wow. That was some bad, bad writing. Seriously bad. I can't even. I don't think Ms Vreeland had an editor, or this never would have been published. The characters were oft-times indistinguishable, relationships were spoke Leggi tutto
Sometimes I really like Susan Vreeland, sometimes she just doesn't do it for me. I think she is at her best when she manages to get inside her characters' heads to show what art means to them or what inspires people to create. I just wasn't getting that from this book. I loved the idea of the story, Leggi tutto
I made myself finish 50 pages of this drivel, and that is all I will be finishing because life is way too short to read crap like this. I can thank the author for inspiring me to create my new "life's too short" bookshelf for books I start and don't finish (not because I lack the will power, but bec Leggi tutto
The woman behind the glass – that is what Clara Driscoll could be referred to. Though there is no certainty that Clara was the innovator for the Tiffany lampshades, that is the assumption made for the purpose of this book. Here’s a heads up, beauty is NOT is not found anywhere on the inside in this b Leggi tutto
I'm glad to know a little more about the actual artists behind the Tiffany oeuvre, but I had to actively force myself to finish this book*, and only managed to do that by skimming liberally. The writing was mediocre as a baseline and quite awful in places, and the characters were annoying more than
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