The Corning Museum of Glass, NY, has just made accessible two new archives which were acquired last year, that relate to Tiffany Studios and Lalique

Apollo, Feb, 2005

The Corning Museum of Glass, NY, has just made accessible two new archives which were acquired last year, that relate to Tiffany Studios and Lalique. In June 2004 the museum bought at Christie's some notebooks, journals and letters of Arthur and Leslie Nash, who worked for Tiffany Studios under Louis Comfort Tiffany in the early 1900s.

One notebook contains the recipe--in code--for Favrile glass, invented by Arthur. David Whitehouse, the museum's director, said, 'The Nashes' formulas take their place alongside other nineteenth-and twentieth-century glassmakers' recipe books'. Then in November the Lalique collectors Glenn and Mary Lou Utt sold their archive materials to the museum. These contain unpublished photographs and designs, including numerous drawings for fragrance bottles, as well as this necklace of about 1900 in pencil and watercolour (left). Both archives are accessible at the museum's Rakow Library.